Assistant Manager, Sales Engineering

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Sales Engineer

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Yamaha Corporation of America

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1960

🔧 Hardware

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Hardware • Education • B2C

Yamaha Corporation of America is the U. S. subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation, providing a broad range of music- and audio-related products and services. It markets and supports musical instruments (pianos, keyboards, guitars, drums, brass and woodwinds), professional and home audio equipment, music education programs (Yamaha Music Schools), digital music tools and apps, and business-oriented audio and network solutions. The company also connects to Yamaha’s wider manufacturing and technology capabilities that include automotive audio, factory automation components, and acoustic design services.

📋 Description

• Provide effective technical and design proposals to improve customer satisfaction and win new programs and new business • Lead sales engineering activities to ensure accurate, timely, and high‑quality technical support to customers across multiple programs • Ensure customer requirements are fully understood and translated into feasible designs • Manage product development timelines and technical deliverables • Drive effective technical communication with customers and internal stakeholders • Ensure material and validation compliance to support production readiness • Support customer satisfaction through quality and issue resolution • Contribute to technology development, team capability, and continuous improvement • Manage multiple program timelines, ensuring on‑time customer approvals for tools, designs, prototypes, and validation milestones • Work closely with customers, Japan team, and production, materials, and quality teams to ensure clear understanding of requirements and feasible, manufacturable solutions • Prepare and manage quality deliverables and support investigation and resolution of quality events with customers and internal teams • Support benchmarking of competitor technologies and communicate emerging engineering concepts and capabilities to customers and YCJ • Serve as a subject‑matter expert in manufacturing processes, materials, and design principles, while training and mentoring junior sales engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Strong technical background in product design, manufacturing processes, and feasibility analysis • Proven ability to coordinate cross‑functional teams across engineering, production, quality, and materials • Experience managing multiple programs, timelines, and customer deliverables simultaneously • Effective communication and negotiation skills with customers, suppliers, and stakeholders • Travel up to 50%, including international travel • Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring within an engineering team (preferred) • Experience in the automotive industry, particularly supporting OEM customers (preferred) • Knowledge of plastic injection molding and related manufacturing processes (preferred) • Background working with multi-region teams, international customers, or programs involving cross-border engineering collaboration (preferred) • Familiarity with automotive product launch and quality processes (e.g., APQP, PPAP, DV/PV) (preferred) • Demonstrated ability to support customer‑facing engineering discussions and negotiations (preferred) • Live in the Detroit metropolitan area (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, LTD, Life-Insurance and 401k with match AND automatic contributions • Performance based bonus program • Robust employee wellness programs including free music lessons • Generous Wellness reimbursement program • Tobacco cessation reward program • Private concerts from award winning artists • Discounted hotel, travel, entertainment, and other attractions • Employee product purchase program • Casual dress • Vacation, sick-time and personal floating holidays • Monthly events, for example -- Bring Your Dog to Work Day, Employee Singing Competitions, Spirit Week and other fun events • Inclusive and passionate culture