Director Strategic Business Development - Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Infineon • San Jose, CA

9d • $218,600 - $300,600 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Director Strategic Business Development- Silicon Valley Innovation Center on our Corporate Functions team, you will become the heart of our organization by developing strategies, refining processes, and implementing initiatives that empower our business to thrive. This role is for jobs that impact everyone's life and shape the strategy that propels innovation.

Requirements

• 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 ability to explore a topic, meet with customers, identify opportunities, build a business plan, an execution strategy, and then define a proof of concept that will move the ball forward into execution.
• Ability to sell your ideas to customers, partners, and internal stake holders.
• Build partnerships.
• Get NRE's and JDA's signed.
• Multiple experiences in multiple fields and functional roles is key.
• Demonstrated history of adaptability and adding value in changing hunting zones (e.g., Robotics, Quantum computing, data center).
• Ability to brainstorm and see opportunities others don't.
• Ability to structure and launch efforts for quick validation and scaling.

Responsibilities

• 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 proof of concepts to validate the potential for 100mil growth hypothesis, to gain customer traction, to gain internal R&D and business line support. Success is defined as when a customer and the business lines take ownership for this new venture area.
• Meet with customers at the senior level to discover, understand and confirm key opportunities.
• Build partnerships internally and externally with both key accounts and startups to create the proof of concepts and business arrangements needed to move from a high risk idea to something a product line will put on its roadmap.
• Structure and run POC's and proof of concepts until they have succeeded and been fully adopted by a relevant Infineon Business Line.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer status
• Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.
• Employment contingent upon proof of legal right to work in the United States, verification of satisfactory references, successful completion of a background check and drug test, and signing all on-boarding documents.
• Potential for U.S. export license acquisition for certain technologies.
• Commitment to data privacy and identity theft prevention.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director