ASIC and Custom Silicon Sales Account Manager for Asia Pacific & Japan (ASIC)

Location: On-site in Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan is also listed as an additional location.

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor products and custom silicon solutions for large-scale technology customers.

What you will do

• Define regional strategies to identify, prioritize, pursue, and convert custom ASIC opportunities across targeted market segments.
• Build executive-level relationships with hyperscalers, OEMs, automotive companies, communications businesses, and other large silicon buyers.
• Lead complex, long-cycle sales pursuits from customer discovery and solution definition through commercial negotiation, investment alignment, and business-case development.
• Partner with internal account teams and business units to shape competitive, scalable, and profitable custom silicon solutions.
• Develop opportunity pipelines, forecast models, and governance processes while contributing market hirify.globalligence to portfolio and roadmap decisions.
• Represent hirify.global's custom silicon portfolio externally and internally across the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

Requirements

• Strong business development and sales experience working with foundries, custom silicon houses, and end customers.
• At least 7 years of experience in semiconductor, ASIC, SoC, foundry, IP, or complex silicon solution sales.
• Experience with Tier 1 ASIC builders and foundries or custom chip building is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Deep knowledge of the ASIC market, semiconductor ecosystem, customer decision criteria, competitive dynamics, and ecosystem partners.
• Strong executive communication, negotiation, selling, financial, and business skills, including investment-case development, margin analysis, and opportunity qualification.
• Ability to travel as needed and work effectively in a matrixed, cross-functional, fast-evolving environment.
• Strategic judgment, ownership, bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to build structure, talent, and process in a growth-oriented environment.
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills are required.

Nice to have

• MBA or an advanced technical degree.
• Experience in custom ASIC, semi-custom silicon, foundry services, design services, or related silicon commercialization models.
• Experience with hyperscale, cloud, data center, networking, automotive, industrial, healthcare, edge-compute, or high-performance-computing customers and executives.
• Understanding of NRE structures, wafer supply, packaging, yield, roadmap alignment, and lifecycle support.
• Experience with globally distributed sales teams and business units.
• Experience influencing C-level and SVP-level stakeholders and negotiating complex strategic agreements or large multi-year opportunities.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time experienced-hire position with on-site work required.
• Shift 1 aligned with the Korea, Republic of location.
• Role includes customer, internal stakeholder, and team-development travel as needed.
• Employment follows hirify.global's ethical hiring practices; candidates are not charged recruitment, medical examination, or other hiring fees.