YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Regional Sales Director, CMOS Image Sensors
About the role
• Drive sales and business development for indie's CMOS Image Sensor portfolio across medical, industrial, robotics, and consumer markets, with a primary focus on CIS and a secondary focus on adjacent sensing solutions
• Develop, onboard, and manage relationships with OEM customers, manufacturers' representatives, VARs, distributors, and other channel partners
• Identify new business opportunities and promote application concepts across image sensing, Vision ISP, radar, LiDAR, and software-enabled sensing use cases
• Provide high-level technical support during customer evaluations, product integration, and system-level discussions
• Partner with Product Management, Product Engineering, Quality, Marketing, and Supply Chain to support customer success
• Gather customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and market insights for product strategy and marketing initiatives
• Translate system requirements into CMOS image sensor solutions and identify opportunities to bundle complementary sensing technologies
• Support customer-facing materials including evaluation kits, application notes, demonstrations, pitch materials, and technical documentation
• Maintain regular communication with OEM customers and channel partners
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Optics, or a related technical field preferred
• 10+ years of semiconductor sales experience, preferably supporting medical, industrial, robotics, or consumer markets
• Experience selling CMOS image sensors, image signal processors, or related sensing semiconductor components
• Familiarity with radar, LiDAR, or sensing software is a plus
• Strong experience managing channel partners, distributors, manufacturers' representatives, and VARs
• Strong customer relationship, communication, and presentation skills, including positioning sensing solutions at the application and system level
• Familiarity with CRM systems and standard business productivity tools
• Existing relationships with industrial, robotics, medical, and consumer OEMs are a strong plus
• Automotive Tier 1 and OEM experience is a plus
• Fluent in Japanese
• Strong English communication skills, verbal and written
• Authorized to work in Japan without current or future visa sponsorship
• Equal opportunity, inclusive employer
• Accommodation for applicants’ needs under applicable laws throughout recruitment and selection