Vice President of Business Development

Responsibilities

MaxLinear is seeking a Vice President of Business Development for our Analog & Mixed-Signal business unit. In this role, you will build and execute the go-to-market strategy for MaxLinear’s AI datacenter portfolio, with primary emphasis on the memory plane and control plane.

• Own the AMS business-development strategy and design-win pipeline for hyperscale datacenter customers, with clear account priorities, opportunity plans, milestones, and executive engagement
• Proactively identify new market, customer, platform, partnership, and portfolio-expansion opportunities; serve as MaxLinear’s relationship champion across strategic accounts and the broader ecosystem
• Engage hyperscale datacenter customers, AI server and networking platform companies, ODMs/OEMs, ecosystem partners, and channel teams to convert customer requirements into design wins, revenue growth, and roadmap priorities
• Build relationships with system architects, hardware and platform engineering leaders, supply-chain teams, and business decision-makers at HSDCs, AI server OEMs/ODMs, networking customers, and silicon ecosystem partners
• Proactively identify and develop new market, customer, platform, partnership, and portfolio-expansion opportunities, and serve as MaxLinear’s relationship champion by building, coordinating, and sustaining strategic connections across key accounts and the broader ecosystem
• Translate customer platform roadmaps and rack-level architectures into product requirements, target specifications, business cases, and actionable MRD inputs for engineering and product marketing
• Create account-specific value propositions and solution-selling narratives that position MaxLinear across multiple sockets rather than as a single-component supplier
• Lead customer opportunity reviews from early engagement through qualification, sampling, validation, commercial negotiation, design win, production ramp, and lifecycle expansion
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across sales, engineering, product marketing, applications, operations, quality, legal, and executive leadership
• Develop executive presentations, sales enablement materials, account playbooks, competitive positioning, and customer-facing product and platform roadmaps
• Represent MaxLinear at customer workshops, industry forums, standards activities, and partner engagements; travel globally as required

Qualifications

• Deep business-development, product-marketing, or strategic-sales experience in semiconductors for AI servers, datacenter infrastructure, platform management, memory subsystems, or high-speed connectivity
• Established relationships and credibility with hyperscale datacenter customers and the broader AI server ecosystem, including OEMs, ODMs, silicon suppliers, and platform partners
• Ability to act as an enterprise relationship champion—building trusted executive connections, coordinating engagement across functions and regions, and expanding relationships into new opportunities for the broader company portfolio
• Strong technical understanding of server architecture and at least two of the following: BMC and out-of-band management; I3C/I2C/PMBus; DDR5 or LPDDR5X; PCIe; USB; serial connectivity; power management
• Proven record of creating customer pull, influencing platform architecture, securing complex design wins, and scaling opportunities into production revenue
• Ability to connect system-level customer requirements with silicon differentiation, product roadmaps, investment priorities, and financial outcomes
• Executive-level communication and influence skills, with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives without relying on direct authority
• Strong analytical capability, including TAM/SAM/SOM analysis, competitive assessment, revenue and unit forecasting, business-case development, and investment prioritization
• High-performance orientation, strong follow-through, and comfort operating in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment
• Education & Experience
• Experience may include business development, product marketing, strategic sales, field applications, product management, or system architecture in the semiconductor or datacenter industry
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related + 19 years of experience, or MS + 17 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 14 years of experience

Compensation and Benefits

MaxLinear has a Total Compensation philosophy which includes base salary and annual discretionary bonus eligibility and many positions also include stock-based compensation.

MaxLinear's good faith estimate starting base salary range is:  $315,XXX to $370,XXX Annually

We offer competitive benefits designed to support employee health, welfare, and retirement and some highlights are:  health care benefits, 401k savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and paid time off.

The actual starting base salary will be determined by the match to certain role-related criteria such as educational degree(s) or equivalent, relevant work experience, skillset needed for the role, and geographic location; this is not an all-inclusive list as some roles may require unique skills or experience.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Company Overview

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.