Director, AI Memory & Ecosystem Growth

Sandisk; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandisk seeks a visionary Director of AI Memory Business Development to lead market momentum for emerging AI memory technologies and shape a global ecosystem. This high-impact role focuses on securing lighthouse customers, establishing reference designs, and defining the value proposition for future AI hardware.

You will lead strategic partnerships, perform market explorations, and work across engineering, product and sales to drive early commercial success while expanding Sandisk’s leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field; MBA preferred.
• 12+ years in business development, strategic partnerships, or product management in AI hardware/semiconductor/memory sectors.
• Proven success building multi-party technology alliances and navigating AI infrastructure partner landscape.
• Deep knowledge of AI Data Center system architecture and memory technologies (HBM, LPDDR, LPW DRAM).

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Orchestration: identify and engage with critical partners to build a robust ecosystem around our new memory architectures.
• Strategic market entry and use case explorations: identify early adopters, secure design-ins and PoCs, stay close to AI market Developments.
• Market Intelligence & Trend Scouting: monitor AI landscape and translate insights into product and GTM strategy discussions.

Skills

Strategic partnerships

AI hardware expertise

Leadership by influence

Zero-to-one mindset

Market strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

MBA

Job description

Sandisk seeks a visionary Director of AI Memory Business Development to lead market momentum for emerging AI memory technologies and shape a global ecosystem. This high-impact role focuses on securing lighthouse customers, establishing reference designs, and defining the value proposition for future AI hardware.

You will lead strategic partnerships, perform market explorations, and work across engineering, product and sales to drive early commercial success while expanding Sandisk’s leadership