Sales Account Manager — Robotics and Physical AI (EMEA)

Intel Corporation; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation is seeking an experienced individual contributor to lead the EMEA robotics and physical AI go-to-market efforts from the front line. You will hunt net-new opportunities, shape markets, and orchestrate an ecosystem of hardware vendors, ODMs, OEMs and ISVs into winning solutions.

You will engage with engineering teams and executives alike, leveraging deep robotics know-how and a broad partner network to accelerate growth across EMEA.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in sales, business development, or partnerships in tech.
• 5+ years direct robotics experience in BD, sales, solutions, or product roles.
• Fluent technical fluency in robotics/physical AI systems for engineering audiences.
• Proven ecosystem connectivity across hardware, ODM/OEM/ISV partners in EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the EMEA go-to-market strategy for robotics and physical AI from segmentation to pipeline and revenue.
• Prospect new accounts through market analysis, creating demand where none exists.
• Build and orchestrate a partner ecosystem spanning hardware vendors, ODMs, OEMs, ISVs, and integrators.
• Lead multi-stakeholder engagements from first contact through validation, negotiation, and close.
• Drive marketing and business development initiatives: events, campaigns, demand gen, thought leadership.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, translating customer needs into business outcomes.

Skills

Sales strategy

Robotics domain

EMEA market access

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

AI frameworks

Robotics platforms

Job description

About the Role

We are building the EMEA robotics business from the front line, and we need a motivated individual contributor to drive it. This is not a farming role for an existing account list - it is a hunting and market-shaping role. You will own the go-to-market strategy for robotics and physical AI across EMEA, uncover and open net-new opportunities and accounts, and orchestrate an ecosystem of hardware vendors, ODMs, OEMs, ISVs, and system integrators into winning solutions.

You will be equally comfortable in a whiteboard architecture discussion with an engineering team and in a boardroom presentation to a customer’s executives. You are deeply passionate about robotics and physical AI, technically fluent, commercially sharp, and already wired into the EMEA ecosystem. You bring your own network and the credibility to activate it from day one.

What You’ll Do

• Own and execute the EMEA go-to-market strategy for robotics and physical AI - from market segmentation and value proposition through to pipeline and revenue.
• Uncover new opportunities and accounts through disciplined prospecting, market analysis, and competitive intelligence - creating demand where none exists yet.
• Build and orchestrate the partner ecosystem: hardware vendors, ODMs, OEMs, ISVs, and solution partners - assembling end-to-end solutions and joint go-to-market motions.
• Lead complex programs and multi-stakeholder engagements from first contact through technical validation, commercial negotiation, and close.
• Drive business development and marketing initiatives - events, campaigns, demand generation, thought leadership - in partnership with marketing and technical teams.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, converting customer engineering requirements into clear business and commercial outcomes.
• Represent the company at industry conferences, customer executive briefings, and partner forums across the region.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years in sales, business development, and strategic partner alliances roles across the tech industry.
• 5+ years of directly relevant robotics experience - in business development, sales, solutions, or product roles within robotics, automation, or physical AI. General tech sales without robotics depth will not qualify.
• Demonstrable technical fluency in robotics/physical AI systems - able to hold your own on architecture, hardware, sensors, compute, and software stacks with engineering audiences.
• Hands-on experience with AI software architectures in robotics - including perception (vision), motion planning and control, and integration of AI models into real‑world robotic systems and software stacks.
• Proven ecosystem connectivity across hardware, ODM, OEM, ISV, and integration partners - with a verifiable personal network in EMEA you can activate immediately.
• Track record of large, complex programs - multi‑stakeholder, long‑cycle, high‑value designs, or initiatives you personally led to closure.
• Experience building and executing go-to-market plans and opening net‑new accounts and opportunities.
• Experience executing marketing and business development initiatives (events, campaigns, demand generation).
• Experience operating inside a corporation - navigating matrixed organizations, internal stakeholders, and structured processes.
• Exceptional communicator - executive presence in front of both C-level customers and technical teams.
• Genuine passion for technology - robotics and physical AI in particular.
• Willingness and ability to travel across EMEA, up to 25 per cent of the time, for customer meetings, partner visits, and industry events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with edge computing, AI infrastructure, and semiconductor/compute platforms underpinning robotics.
• Prior experience standing up a new business, region, or product line from early stage.
• Established relationships with industrial and manufacturing end-customers deploying robotics at scale.
• Experience with both startup/scale‑up agility and large-enterprise.
• Native German speaker or German at C1 level or higher (fluent, professional working proficiency).
• Experience across multiple EMEA sub-regions and additional language proficiency

Job Type

Experienced Hire

Shift

Shift 1 (United Kingdom)

Primary Location

Virtual United Kingdom

Additional Locations

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role is available as a fully home-based and generally would require you to attend Intel sites only occasionally based on business need. However, you must live and work from the country specified in the job posting, in which Intel has a legal presence. Due to legal regulations, remote work from any other country is unfortunately not permitted. Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change. Intel’s official careers website.