Sales Account Manager (Automotive)

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Base salary: $121,400–$166,900 annually; additional competitive benefits, incentive compensation, and/or equity may apply to certain roles.

Company

Semiconductor company serving automotive OEMs and supporting automotive electronics programs.

What you will do

• Engage regularly with customer engineering, purchasing, and program management teams.
• Support automotive programs across design-in, SOP, production, and lifecycle management.
• Identify and qualify design-in and socket opportunities aligned with vehicle platforms and customer roadmaps.
• Maintain CRM data, pipeline visibility, revenue forecasts, and program reporting.
• Support automotive RFQs, cost models, business cases, samples, NDAs, and customer technical or commercial requests.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain & Operations, FAEs, product marketing, and engineering on demand planning, lifecycle continuity, product positioning, BOM analysis, and competitive insights.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in semiconductor sales, applications, or commercial roles, or in automotive electronics or embedded systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical Engineering.
• Ability to read and interpret OEM BOMs, system diagrams, and teardown analyses with guidance.
• Familiarity with semiconductor product categories including MCUs, SoCs, analog, power, and sensors.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills for cost analysis and customer presentations.
• Experience using CRM platforms; Salesforce is preferred.

Nice to have

• Basic understanding of automotive ECUs and in-vehicle network architectures, including CAN, LIN, and Ethernet.
• Familiarity with automotive sourcing processes and RFQs.
• Understanding of automotive lifecycles, including PPAP and SOP.
• Experience participating in competitive BOM teardown activities.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment supporting long-cycle automotive programs.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) and paid leave.
• Competitive incentive compensation and/or equity for certain roles.
• Success is measured by contribution to design wins, automotive revenue growth, and accurate pipeline, program, and forecast reporting.