Silicon Ecosystem Partnerships Director

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Ecosystem Development
• Build and manage strategic relationships with semiconductor ecosystem partners, including foundries, ASIC design partners, IP providers, EDA vendors, advanced packaging providers, system partners, and infrastructure technology companies.
• Develop a clear ecosystem partnership strategy aligned with the company’s silicon roadmap, product milestones, commercial priorities, and long-term platform strategy.
• Identify partnership opportunities that can improve product execution, supply-chain resilience, technology differentiation, cost structure, and market credibility.
• Serve as a key external-facing representative for the company with senior executives across the semiconductor ecosystem.
• Foundry, ASIC, IP, and EDA Engagement
• Coordinate with engineering, operations, product, legal, and finance teams to align on technical requirements, commercial terms, program timelines, and partner deliverables.
• Support licensing and partnership discussions with IP and EDA vendors, ensuring alignment with product requirements, cost targets, and roadmap needs.
• Help evaluate partner capabilities across process technology, packaging, design services, verification, physical design, manufacturing readiness, and long-term support.
• Advanced Packaging and Supply Chain Partnerships
• Develop strategic relationships across advanced packaging, CoWoS/2.5D/3D integration, HBM, substrate, interposer, OSAT, and backend manufacturing ecosystems.
• Work closely with operations and engineering teams to identify risks and opportunities across the supply chain.
• Help secure partner support for capacity planning, cost transparency, technical enablement, and production readiness.
• Support cross-functional planning around manufacturability, yield improvement, cost optimization, and delivery timelines.
• Go-to-Market and Ecosystem Positioning
• Partner with business development, sales, marketing, and product teams to strengthen the company’s ecosystem narrative and market positioning.
• Support joint marketing activities, executive briefings, customer events, press releases, partner announcements, and industry events.
• Help position the company as a credible AI infrastructure player through strong ecosystem validation and partner engagement.
• Develop messaging and materials that highlight the company’s technology differentiation, production readiness, roadmap strength, and supply-chain resilience.
• Executive Relationship Management
• Build trusted relationships with senior executives and decision-makers at key ecosystem partners.
• Act as a single point of coordination for high-priority strategic partnerships where needed.
• Prepare executive briefing materials, partnership proposals, negotiation positions, and internal alignment documents.
• Represent the company in partner meetings, industry forums, executive briefings, and strategic negotiations.
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Work closely with engineering, product, operations, finance, legal, sales, and marketing teams to drive internal alignment on partner strategy and execution.
• Translate technical and business requirements into actionable partnership plans.
• Identify gaps, risks, and dependencies across the silicon roadmap and work proactively to resolve them through ecosystem engagement.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership on partnership progress, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor, AI infrastructure, silicon partnerships, business development, strategic alliances, product management, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of the semiconductor ecosystem, including foundry, ASIC design, IP, EDA, advanced packaging, memory, substrate, OSAT, and system-level partners.
• Experience working with senior executives and cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, legal, finance, sales, and marketing.
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills, including experience with partnership structures, licensing models, supply agreements, and joint development discussions.
• Technical fluency in areas such as AI accelerators, SoCs, chiplets, advanced nodes, packaging, HBM, PCIe, Ethernet, and data center infrastructure.
• Proven ability to build trust with external partners and drive complex, multi-party initiatives.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and executive writing skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly technical environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with leading semiconductor ecosystem partners in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, or the United States.
• Prior experience at a semiconductor startup, AI infrastructure company, fabless semiconductor company, foundry, ASIC provider, IP vendor, EDA company, or system OEM/ODM.
• Familiarity with AI inference, hyperscale infrastructure, data center deployment, or high-performance computing markets.
• Experience supporting press releases, joint marketing, customer briefings, or ecosystem events.
• Existing relationships with senior stakeholders across the semiconductor supply chain.…