Director Strategic Business Development - Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Director Strategic Business Development - Silicon Valley Innovation Center

#WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life. Behind every breakthrough is a blueprint: ready to shape the strategy that propels innovation? As a Director Strategic Business Development - Silicon Valley Innovation Center on our Corporate Functions team become the heart of our organization by developing strategies, refining processes, and implementing initiatives that empower our business to thrive. Are you in?

Your Role

Key responsibilities in your new role

• Hunting Zone Execution: Analyze corporate aligned hunting zones, develop related growth plans, find new $100mil opportunities, and build a related execution strategy including near term growth potentials and long term venture programs
• Run Venture Programs: For 100 mil growth hypothesis, run proof of concepts to validate the potential, to gain customer traction, to gain internal R&D and business line support
• Build Partnerships: Key to success is meeting with customers at the senior level and then using those engagements to discover, understand and confirm key opportunities
• Responsible to build partnerships internally and externally with both key accounts and startups to create the proof of concepts and business arrangements you will need to move from a high risk idea to something a product line will put on its roadmap

Your Profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• Engineering or Physics degree. Ability to understand semiconductor devices (sensors, power devices, microcontrollers...),what they are capable of, and how new capabilities will impact and interact with system solutions that include both hardware and software
• Proven Marketing Ability: proven ability to explore a topic, meet with customers, identify opportunities, build a business plan, a execution strategy, and then define a proof of concept that will move the ball forward into execution
• Proven Business Development / Deal Making: Ability to sell your ideas to customers, partners, and internal stake holders. Build partnerships. Get NRE's and JDA's signed
• Program Management: Structure and run proof of concepts until they have succeeded and been fully adopted by a relevant Infineon Business Line
• Broad Professional experience: Multiple experiences in multiple fields and functional roles is key. Ability to adapt, be flexible and add value. Roles such as FAE, Sales, Business Development, Strategy. Must have a technical background
• Innovative venture spirit: The ability to brainstorm and see opportunities others don't is key, and structure and launch these efforts for quick validation and scaling. Fundamentally curious

#WeAreIn for driving decarbonization and digitalization. As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener. Are you in?

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