This is a Strategy and Business Development role. The candidate should possess strategic technology vision, and be able to develop new business leads in the open source industry, and be part of the corporate think-tank, to provide strategies, innovative ideas, to initiate and facilitate corporate changes, and be the change agents.
• Attending conferences to gather new business leads and opportunities, and develop these leads into potential collaboration projects and corporate programs, such as holding conferences, workshops, consulting sessions with Headquarter teams
• Being the trusted advisors to the corporate leadership team, by bringing disruptive technologies, startup companies, ideas, CEOs, VCs, technologists, academia, to the executive leadership team, connecting the dots, helping formulate corporate strategies, and align these BD activities with strategic objectives.
• Keeping pace with technology disruptions, business disruptions, with a focus on open source industry and its ecosystem.
• Creating monthly report/update on open source landscape changes and market intelligence, and provide insight analysis and their business impacts for the company, and provide strategy and suggestions; be the first to know the happenings in the OSS communities, competitors actions in OSS, by creating the open source landscaping tools, partnering and engaging with analysts and consulting companies or individual senior/executive consultants
• Working with internal Open source teams across different business units and product lines, to facilitate open source meetings, forums, and to provide related feedbacks to corporate open source strategy office.
• Interacting with major interested OSS communities; manage key liaisons with each OSS organizations. Conduct monthly calls/meetings with them to gather intelligence.
• Providing input into the company's overall open source and innovation strategic direction and drive key strategic initiatives
• Driving analysis of market trends, technology developments, and changes in customers' requirements to identify opportunities and risks impacting the company's business and formulate strategic responses to drive sustainable value realization
• Coordinating input from all major business units to facilitate the integration of individual business unit plans with the corporate strategic plan
• Providing operational support to the business to ensure the success of corporate initiatives
• Implementing programs and initiatives to meet organizational goals
• Utilizing tools, systems, processes, and procedures to increase department efficiency and effectiveness
• Engaging with open source communities, third party analysts, consultants, and research organizations to execute research and bring independent knowledge and assessments into the company
• Leading projects that require cross functional collaboration and manage stakeholder expectations; set deadlines; assign responsibilities; monitor and summarize progress; research requirements; recruit support as necessary and provide proposals on action plan, including the creation of success criteria and measurements
• Developing, analyze and prepare information for senior management
• Evaluating organizational issues; provide strategy and direction suggestions to the functional area leadership
Requirements:
• Typically 8+ years of work experience in the IT and 3+ year in strategy
• Ph.D. or M.S. in an IT is required and MBA is plus
• Experience working effectively across highly-matrixed organizations
• Experience in defining and driving programs
• Strong verbal, written, analytical, and critical thinking skills
• Ability to communicate comfortably and effectively including ability to present findings in formal and in ad-hoc situations and answer resulting questions from management
• Ability to manage internal and external research and give clear directions and deliver on deadlines
• Ability to meet deadlines to deliver insights on significant events in a timely manner
• Ability to accurately reason, derive insights, and contextualize recommendations relative to competitors or market trends based on foundational data and research
• Understanding of the company's corporate goals and objectives, markets, competitors, positioning, product portfolio and internal organization
• Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration, particularly cross-organizationally and cross-functionally. Emphasis on building solid working relationships
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and exhibit comfort in ambiguous situations
• Ability to maintain a proactive and positive approach to resolving conflict and or business issues
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