Director, Strategic Business Development – Data Center

About the role

Lattice Semiconductor is seeking a highly technical, customer‑facing leader to drive strategic business development and technology adoption across the Data Center market in Taiwan and China. The role will engage hyperscalers, cloud service providers, server OEMs/ODMs, networking companies, and ecosystem partners to understand emerging infrastructure challenges, influence customer architectures, and identify new business opportunities.

Key responsibilities

• Develop strategic relationships with hyperscalers, cloud providers, server OEMs/ODMs, networking companies, and ecosystem partners.
• Evangelize Lattice technologies to technical and executive audiences and drive new business opportunities and design wins.
• Serve as the voice of the customer, influencing internal product direction, business strategy, and roadmap recommendations.
• Collaborate with Lattice Compute, Security, Software, and Solutions teams to define differentiated solutions for AI infrastructure, data‑center management, platform security, and networking.
• Represent Lattice in industry forums, standards bodies, and consortiums to establish thought leadership in platform security and infrastructure resiliency.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data‑center, cloud infrastructure, networking, semiconductor, FPGA or related industries.
• Strong technical credibility with customer architects, engineering teams, and senior leadership.
• Proven ability to influence customer technology decisions and drive business outcomes.
• Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Required skills

• FPGA technology experience.
• Server and platform management architectures (BMC/RMC).
• Hardware Root of Trust and platform security (Secure Boot, SPDM, Attestation, Firmware Resiliency).
• AI infrastructure and accelerated computing platforms.
• Power management, telemetry, and sideband control.
• Post‑Quantum Cryptography (PQC).