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About the role
Responsibilities
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Product Positioning: Define and articulate unique selling propositions (USPs) for our wireless IC products, ensuring alignment with market demands and company goals. (30%)
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Business Execution: Drive opportunity funnel creation to achieve new product business plans, drive the conversion of opportunities to production and strive to meet or exceed business unit goals and objectives. (20%)
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Team & Stakeholder Leadership : Lead and coordinate business development activities across field sales, FAEs, and distributor partners — setting priorities, tracking execution, and holding teams accountable to pipeline milestones and revenue targets. (10%)
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Customer Engagement: Engage with customers and industry stakeholders to gather voice of customer, feedback, understand pain points, and refine product offerings. (20%)
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Go-to-Market Strategy: Develop and implement effective go-to-market plans for new product launches, including pricing, distribution, and promotional strategies. (10%)
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Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, sales, product development and LoRa ecosystem teams including LoRa alliance members to ensure product alignment with market requirements and to drive successful product launches. (10%)
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
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8+ years of experience in business development role within the wireless semiconductors technology sectors.
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Proven experience in competitive analysis and developing go to market strategies for new products
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Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
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Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
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Self-Driven Individual with an exceptional professional presence, good business acumen and knowledge to establish immediate credibility with customers, vendors/suppliers, employees and the management team.
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Comfortable working in a matrixed, cross-functional environment with multiple stakeholders.
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Demonstrated experience in defining competitive positioning, value propositions, and messaging for key products and platforms.
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Analyze product performance metrics (design-ins, revenue, share) and deliver forecasts and strategic insights to business leadership.
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Represent the product line at key customer meetings, industry events, and internal strategy reviews.
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Able to travel in India, 20-30%
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Desired Qualifications Strong understanding of low power wireless technologies (e.g., LoRa, FSK, BLE, ZigBee, 802.15.4/4g, Wi-Fi)
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Strong business acumen with ability to balance technical depth and market insight.
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Lead customer engagement efforts in collaboration with field sales, FAE, and business development teams to drive design wins and revenue.
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Proven experience in servicing IOT applications and customers
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Experience mentoring or guiding junior BD engineers or FAEs, providing technical direction and coaching on customer engagement strategy.
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