Technical Program Management, Director - 19246

Job Description and Requirements

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We Are

Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

You Are

You are an accomplished semiconductor leader who has led complex, strategic customer engagements spanning multiple products, programs, engineering organizations, and geographies. You understand the semiconductor development lifecycle deeply enough to engage credibly with engineering leaders, while maintaining the broader perspective needed to manage customer commitments, execution risk, organizational dependencies, and business outcomes.

The hardest challenges in a strategic engagement rarely sit within one project or one organization. Success requires connecting product roadmaps, engineering execution, customer priorities, quality, infrastructure, and delivery commitments across multiple programs and teams. You have been the leader customers and internal stakeholders turn to when an engagement crosses organizational boundaries or requires difficult decisions. Creating clarity where ownership is fragmented comes naturally to you. You identify risks before they become escalations and translate complex technical execution into clear decisions and actions.

You combine the rigor of an exceptional program leader with the mindset of a customer success executive. At Synopsys, you will provide leadership for one of our most strategic and technically complex customer engagements, bringing together multiple teams and programs around a common set of commitments and outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide leadership for a portfolio of concurrent, interdependent semiconductor and IP programs supporting a strategic customer
• Serve as a senior customer-facing leader, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders and ensuring alignment on priorities, commitments, risks, and outcomes
• Establish and drive program governance, integrated planning, execution cadence, customer commitments, and executive-level reporting
• Lead across multiple customer programs, bringing together product, engineering, program, and customer-facing teams to drive coordinated execution
• Maintain an integrated view of schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, quality, readiness, and customer deliverables across the engagement
• Drive cross-functional execution across complex semiconductor development programs, from product development and integration through validation and customer deployment
• Anticipate cross-program risks and dependencies, driving proactive mitigation and timely resolution before they impact customer commitments
• Lead resolution of complex issues requiring alignment across customers, programs, functions, and senior stakeholders
• Establish the discipline, transparency, and accountability required to deliver consistently across a large-scale strategic customer engagement

The Impact You Will Have

• Provide a single, integrated executive program view across a highly complex strategic customer engagement
• Improve predictability across interconnected programs by identifying technical, schedule, quality, and organizational risks earlier
• Strengthen customer confidence through transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and consistent execution
• Accelerate decision-making and issue resolution across organizational boundaries
• Ensure customer commitments translate into executable plans with clear ownership, dependencies, milestones, and measures of success
• Enable engineering and customer-facing organizations to operate as one coordinated team toward shared customer outcomes
• Strengthen Synopsys' ability to execute successfully on large-scale, highly complex strategic customer engagements

What You'll Need

• BSEE or equivalent technical degree, with extensive semiconductor industry experience and demonstrated leadership of highly complex engineering and customer programs
• Significant leadership experience in semiconductor, SoC, silicon IP, or similarly complex technology-development environments
• Demonstrated experience leading a portfolio of concurrent and interdependent programs, beyond the management of a single project or product
• Extensive leadership experience working directly with strategic customers and senior engineering, business, and program stakeholders
• Strong understanding of the semiconductor development lifecycle, including architecture, design, verification, implementation, IP integration, silicon validation, release, and production
• Exceptional program leadership capabilities, including integrated planning, governance, risk and dependency management, metrics, executive reporting, and escalation management
• Proven ability to influence and align senior leaders across highly matrixed, global organizations without relying on direct authority
• Strong business judgment and the ability to balance customer priorities, engineering realities, resources, quality, schedule, and long-term strategic objectives
• Excellent executive communication, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills

Who You Are

• You see the entire engagement, not just the individual programs, and recognize dependencies and risks that others may miss
• You can move comfortably from an executive customer discussion to a detailed engineering review and understand what matters in both
• You create clarity in complex environments, establish accountability, and ensure decisions translate into execution
• You know when an issue can be resolved within a program and when it requires executive intervention
• You challenge unrealistic commitments while preserving trust with customers and internal teams
• You lead effectively through ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities
• When a strategic customer escalates an issue, you focus the organization on root cause, ownership, recovery, communication, and closure
• You measure success not simply by whether individual programs meet their milestones, but by whether the overall customer engagement succeeds

The Team You'll Be Part Of

Your recruiter will share more about the team structure and mission during the interview process.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.

At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.

In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.