About the company
Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.
Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.
Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Orchestration: Identify and engage with critical technology and business partners to build a robust ecosystem around our new memory architectures. Negotiate and manage high-level partnerships that ensure Sandisk’s AI memory technologies are integrated into reference designs and hardware stacks of the future
- Strategic market entry and use case explorations: Identify and nurture early adopters and system use cases for our new technologies. You will help "sell the vision", and work alongside Product and Sales teams securing design-ins and strategic proof-of-concepts (PoCs). You will stay close to latest AI market and technology developments and champion market explorations of applying our new technology in emerging AI use cases
- Market Intelligence & Trend Scouting: Serve as a voice of intelligence internally on the evolving AI landscape. You will monitor emerging hardware/software trends and maintain deep connections within the AI startup ecosystem to identify shifts in model deployment and inference infrastructure demands. You will help translate market intelligence into actional insights, feed information into internal product development and GTM strategy discussions, ensuring our product and business strategy anticipates the next generation of AI workloads.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Preferred: MBA or equivalent graduate business degree.
- 12+ years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, or product management within AI hardware, server systems, semiconductor and memory sectors.
- Demonstrated success in building multi-party technology alliances and navigating the complex lan