Senior Director, System Solutions Engineering and Technical Marketing

About the position

Littelfuse is seeking a visionary and execution-oriented Senior Director, System Solutions Engineering and Technical Marketing to lead the development of system-level solutions that span our diverse product portfolio. This role is focused on turning deep market, trend, and application insights into scalable technical solutions and impactful collateral — enabling our global sales and FAE teams to deepen customer engagement, increase design wins, and drive revenue growth. This individual will serve as the strategic link between market opportunity and product capability, ensuring that Littelfuse’s system solutions directly address real-world challenges in high-growth application spaces.

Responsibilities

• Continuously analyze target markets, megatrends, customer use cases, and emerging applications across automotive, industrial, electronics, and energy segments.
• Support, contribute to, and co-own focus market segment strategy initiatives — ensuring system solutions align with broader growth strategies and market priorities.
• Develop application-specific system solutions that combine multiple Littelfuse technologies — including circuit protection, power semiconductors, switches, sensors, and controllers — to address customer challenges.
• Oversee development of high-impact technical collateral (e.g., reference designs, white papers, application notes, block diagrams, training decks) that clearly communicate value propositions and system-level benefits.
• Equip sales and field teams with tools and training to position solutions effectively and increase success in design-in and design-win engagements.
• Participate in key customer discussions to provide system-level perspective and strengthen Littelfuse’s position as a solution partner — not just a component supplier.
• Work closely with business units, product management, marketing, and engineering to align solution development with roadmaps and go-to-market strategies.
• Lead and mentor a global team of system engineers and technical marketers.

Requirements

• 10+ years in systems engineering, technical marketing, or applications.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline; MBA a plus.
• Strong understanding of key end markets (e.g., automotive, communications, datacenter, industrial, energy, consumer, medical) and relevant technologies.
• Proven track record of developing system solutions and enabling go-to-market execution through sales and FAE teams.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
• Experience managing global teams and driving cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Willingness to travel (up to 25%).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match and annual contribution
• Paid time off and 11 holidays
• $850 Lifestyle Spending Account
• Lean Six Sigma certification and career development opportunities
• Life, disability, and voluntary insurance options