Senior Director Module Development

**Company Background**

**onsemi**was founded in 1999. The company was originally a spinoff of Motorola's Semiconductor Components Group, then named ON Semiconductor. It continues to manufacture Motorola's discrete, standard analog, and standard logic devices. In 2021, to better reflect its broad technology portfolio, differentiated product lines, and market leadership, ON Semiconductor rebranded itself as **onsemi**.

Under the new tagline, “Intelligent Technology. Better Future”, **onsemi**plans to break through traditional thinking and market barriers to create innovative and game-changing solutions that solve customers’ most difficult design challenges, and support revolution. **onsemi**’s value proposition includes a unique combination of deep systems knowledge, technology leadership and industry leading manufacturing.

**Job Purpose**

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of New Product Development, the Senior Director of Module Development will play a crucial role in developing the next generation of high-power modules for **onsemi**’s power products. Flawless execution is a core value of the engineering organization, and the Senior Director of Module Development will lead the company in defining and delivering to the roadmap to fulfill business objectives. This role is instrumental in delivering high quality products to the market ahead of the competition by designing high power modules for multiple markets including automotive, industrial and AI. Preferred location is in Munich Germany, collocated with **onsemi**’s System Engineering leadership.

The Senior Director of Module Development will work closely with customers, and cross-functionally with all engineering and product management teams while ensuring complete alignment with the manufacturing teams. This role demands a deep understanding of module development using power discretes, material science, packaging architectures, electromechanical and thermal modeling, simulation and design for manufacturing. This leader will work closely with the technical leadership in **onsemi’**s Business Groups to create technology and module roadmaps supporting power system product roadmaps.

Business performance mandates a leader capable of driving down cost while meeting technical product requirements. Cost optimization is essential where this leader will perform tradeoffs during the design cycle, across material selection, process flow and backend assembly.

In addition to technical leadership, the role is responsible for defining and delivering a market-leading roadmap through innovation. The role involves direct customer engagement and requires the ability to understand and anticipate or drive market trends, competitive dynamics, and customer demands.

**onsemi**(Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.

More details about our company benefits can be found here:

- Successful R&D track record and project management skills, i.e., at least 10 years (automotive) product development experience in module development and demonstrated ability to deliver results within quality, time and budget targets.
- Automotive industry knowledge and experience working at tier-1 supporting OEM designs of high voltage power systems.
- Multicultural experience and global mindset, i.e., substantial experience in working in an international context and/or living abroad.
- Completed academic education, e.g., successfully completed engineering, material science, physics or similar studies at a leading institution, possibly with Ph.D.
- Manage team of designers in engineering development lifecycle of semiconductor products.
- Develop, maintain and execute technology and product roadmaps for diverse product portfolios.

**Competencies**
- Strategic Orientation - s/he will have best-in-class understanding of relevant technological trends and communicate them in the form of a clear, convincing vision and roadmap while providing intellectual leadership. S/he will also have the proven ability to translate business strategy into technology and to effectively articulate, gain consensus and lead the organization to realize the desired path forward.

**Key Accountabilities**

Development of multiple high power modules including automotive power boxes for traction inverters, EV charging infrastructure, solar inverters and AI.
- Management of product lifecycles from product definition to manufacturing release.
- Creating best-in-class modeling and simulation capabilities of new module designs to red