Senior Account Manager

Semtech Open · verified Sep 29, 2026

Shanghai Full-time Senior Account Management

At a glance

Senior Account Management role at Semtech. Shanghai · full-time.

Pay not stated

RoleAccount Management

SenioritySenior

LocationShanghai

EmploymentFull-time

PostedSep 22, 2026 · 7d ago

Role brief

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What you'll do

Build account plans, market strategies, forecasts, and backlog plans for key customers
Keep customer roadmaps, contacts, organizational charts, challenges, revenue outlook, and competitor updates current quarterly
Translate customer needs for marketing and engineering, then align internal responses with customer expectations
Lead weekly status reviews, escalate critical issues, and drive actions through closure across teams
Protect contract delivery, quality, and profitability while sponsoring customer projects and executive relationships

What you bring

More than eight years promoting semiconductor products, with signal integrity experience preferred
Over five years handling key accounts such as Accelink, HG, Coherent, or Credo
Deep optical-module application knowledge for Datacom and Telecommunication use cases
A record of sales results, including DIN and DWIN achievement, plus business-operations experience
Fluent spoken and written Mandarin and English, with strong communication and presentation skills

Who this fits

This role suits a senior account leader who can combine technical optical-module knowledge with strategic account planning and hands-on issue resolution. You’ll work with customers including Alibaba, Byte Dance, Tencent, Accelink, HG, Coherent, and Credo, while coordinating marketing, engineering, operations, and customer executives. The position is based in Shanghai and calls for someone comfortable with challenging assignments, pressure, and weekly operating cadence.

From the employer

Responsibilities:

As key account manager to build winning strategy for key accounts
Able to integrate the industrial perspective through key accounts and set up winning strategy for markets accordingly
Account management: includes account development plan, business strategy, key DIN/DWIN goal, critical issue escalation and close-loop tactical execution. Initiate customer product road, set up executive appointment, manage forecast and backlog related business planning.
Account maintenance: require updates at least once a quarter to update customer’s roadmap, org-chart, contacts, challenges, revenue projection and competitor’s progress.
Manage communication: Communicate customer expectation and requirement crystal clear back to internal marketing and engineering team. Collecting feedback from internal stakeholders and sending proper approval back to set accurate customer expectation.
Team alignment: Provide weekly comprehensive customer status report and set up weekly call to close-loop every open issue. Helping the organization to innovate and to develop new business models based on customer needs and requirements.
Project management: Work as a driver, deal critical issue escalation and close-loop tactical execution. Identify impacts, critical path and challenges, could take full use of resources and lead to win.
Business operation: Working closely with operations to ensure quality and profitability in delivery by securing contract fulfillment, including the delivery of services, is the sponsor of customer projects.
Customer relationship setup: Building relationships with working level and senior customer executives to achieve "trusted partner" status and address the entire business needs of the customers.

Qualifications:

Over 8 years working experience in semiconductor products promotion, experience of signal integrity products preferred
Over 5 years working experience for key accounts like Accelink, HG, Coherent and Credo preferred
Good vertical working experience are preferred, like to have good relationship with end customers Alibaba, Byte Dance, Tencent and others
Strong learning ability to learn new technology and products
In-depth technical and application knowledge in optical module industry especially for Datacom & Telecommunication applications
Proven sales performance, ability to achieve DIN and DWIN in competitive market and considerable business operation experience
Excellent logical thinking and comprehension skills
Willing to take challenging assignments and capable of ability to work well under pressure
Strong focus on achieving results and operational excellence with good strategic thinking and team work
Positive, optimistic and responsive
Good communication, presentation and coordination skills
Fluent in Mandarin & English verbal and written communication