Regional Sales Director, CMOS Image Sensors

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Japan.

📋 Description

• Lead sales and business development efforts for the CMOS Image Sensor portfolio at indie, focusing primarily on CIS while also addressing adjacent sensing solutions in the medical, industrial, robotics, and consumer markets.

• Establish, onboard, and nurture relationships with OEM customers, manufacturers' representatives, VARs, distributors, and other channel partners.

• Discover new business opportunities and advocate for application concepts across areas such as image sensing, Vision ISP, radar, LiDAR, and software-enabled sensing use cases.

• Offer high-level technical support during customer evaluations, product integration, and discussions at the system level.

• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Engineering, Quality, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams to ensure customer success.

• Collect customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and market insights to inform product strategy and marketing initiatives.

• Convert system requirements into effective CMOS image sensor solutions and pinpoint opportunities to integrate complementary sensing technologies.

• Assist in the creation of customer-facing materials, including evaluation kits, application notes, demonstrations, pitch materials, and technical documentation.

• Maintain consistent communication with OEM customers and channel partners.

• Travel domestically and internationally as required.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Optics, or a related technical discipline is preferred.

• Over 10 years of experience in semiconductor sales, ideally in the medical, industrial, robotics, or consumer sectors.

• Proven experience in selling CMOS image sensors, image signal processors, or other related sensing semiconductor components.

• Knowledge of radar, LiDAR, or sensing software is advantageous.

• Significant experience in managing channel partners, distributors, manufacturers' representatives, and VARs.

• Excellent customer relationship management, communication, and presentation skills, including the ability to position sensing solutions at both the application and system levels.

• Familiarity with CRM systems and standard business productivity software.

• Existing connections with industrial, robotics, medical, and consumer OEMs are a considerable advantage.

• Experience with Automotive Tier 1 and OEM is a plus.

• Proficiency in Japanese is required.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Must be authorized to work in Japan without current or future visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity.

• Reasonable accommodation for applicants’ needs in accordance with applicable laws throughout the recruitment and selection process.