Director, Emerging Tech Hub San Jose

What You'll Do

• Hub and Team Leadership Lead the San Jose Emerging Tech Hub, including people management, team development, operating cadence, planning, and execution against strategic priorities.
• Accountable for the overall effectiveness of the Hub, the development of team capabilities, and the Hub's contribution to broader innovation objectives.
• External Innovation Leadership Represent ADI across the Bay Area robotics and emerging technology ecosystem, building relationships with startups, customers, research organizations, and strategic partners.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies, and opportunities that can strengthen ADI's innovation pipeline and strategic positioning.
• Customer Co-Innovation Develop and lead customer-facing innovation programs that define problem statements, shape proof-of-capability work, and create future revenue pipeline opportunities.
• Assess and prioritize opportunities based on customer value, strategic alignment, and potential business impact.
• Ecosystem Development Build a robust external network that strengthens ADI's access to early signals, new use cases, talent, and partnership opportunities.
• Leverage ecosystem relationships to identify, evaluate, and advance opportunities that align with ADI's long-term innovation priorities.
• Internal Navigation and Alignment Work effectively across business units, sales teams, Analog Garage, and technical organizations to align priorities, manage complexity, and accelerate execution.
• Drive alignment across the organization around opportunity selection, resource focus, and execution priorities.
• Strategy Execution Own and evolve the Hub strategy and translate it into a clear portfolio of outreach, enablement, collaboration, and co-creation activities.
• Set priorities and focus areas based on customer needs, ecosystem insights, and strategic relevance.
• Technical and Application Leadership Guide the technical direction of programs spanning robotics, lab automation, AI-enabled systems, and related emerging technology applications.
• Ensure technical efforts remain aligned with customer needs, strategic objectives, and broader portfolio priorities.
• Capability Development Define and scale Hub capabilities including proof-of-capability work, BU technology de-risking activities, and reusable system or module concepts.
• Make prioritization decisions that maximize the impact of Hub resources and technical expertise.
• Operational Scaling Establish engagement models, governance mechanisms, and resource-planning approaches that support a more scalable innovation pipeline.
• Drive visibility into priorities, tradeoffs, and resource needs across multiple initiatives.
• Executive Communication Communicate strategy, progress, risks, recommendations, and resource needs clearly to senior stakeholders across ADI.
• Advise senior stakeholders and influence decisions regarding innovation priorities, partnerships, and future opportunities.
• Desired Skills People Leadership Proven experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing multidisciplinary technical teams.
• External Ecosystem Presence Strong connections within the Bay Area robotics, automation, or emerging technology ecosystem, with demonstrated ability to build productive partnerships.
• Innovation Leadership Demonstrated ability to lead customer-facing or partner-facing innovation programs from opportunity definition through execution.
• Organizational Navigation Strong track record of working effectively across complex matrixed organizations and aligning diverse stakeholders around shared outcomes.
• Technical Leadership Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering or advanced technology programs in robotics, automation, AI-enabled systems, embedded platforms, or related domains.
• Customer Engagement Experience working directly with customers or strategic partners to identify technical needs, shape joint initiatives, and build long-term relationships.
• Cross-Functional Influence Strong ability to influence engineering, business, and commercial stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
• Systems Thinking Ability to connect application needs, technical architecture, business value, and organizational constraints when making decisions.
• Strategic Communication Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence both technical and executive audiences.
• Program Leadership Experience balancing multiple parallel initiatives, evolving priorities, and resource constraints in a fast-moving environment.
• Preferred Education and Experience Advanced degree in engineering, robotics, computer science, physics, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Significant experience in advanced R&D, systems engineering, robotics, automation, AI, or related emerging technology environments.
• Experience leading programs that bridge research, prototyping, customer engagement, and early-stage product or platform development.
• Experience working with startups, research labs, universities, or strategic ecosystem partners.
• Experience in semiconductor, industrial automation, robotics, healthcare automation, or adjacent technology sectors.
• Experience building or scaling new technical teams, innovation centers, or cross-functional incubation environments.
• We recognize that candidates may not meet every listed requirement.
• If you bring relevant experience and a willingness to learn, we encourage you to apply.
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• We foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed regardless of their race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, social or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, union membership, and political affiliation, or any other legally protected group.
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• Job Req Type: Experienced Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days The expected wage range for a new hire into this position is $212,520 to $307,740.
• Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location , experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.
• This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.
• This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time , and other benefits.