Technical Business Development Lead, Korea Market (us-based)

Applied Intuition Applied Intuition · Robotics · Sunnyvale, CA · Business Development

This role is for a Technical Business Development Lead focused on the Korean market for a company that provides digital infrastructure for physical AI in industries like automotive, defense, and trucking. The role requires an engineering background to act as a technical anchor, understand customer requirements, develop solutions with product and engineering teams, and plan revenue strategies. It involves engaging with customers, hosting workshops, and iterating on technical scope and business models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engage with potential customers identified predominantly from our Korea-based Account Managers or organically based on the candidate's understanding of the ecosystem
  2. Use customer discovery sessions to understand customer requirements and understanding of potential solutions from Applied Intuition
  3. Host customer workshops and organize tailored demonstrations to explain Applied Intuition's solutions to customers
  4. Develop final customer solution with Applied Intuition's Product and Engineering teams for existing products, or support creation of new products for new concepts
  5. Iterate with customer on technical scope and business model, and guide the proposal through approvals at customer

Skills

Required

  • 3 - 5 years of prior experience in automotive interest in relevant domains to guide our customers on what are the best practices
  • Proven ability to work across stakeholders to execute complex projects
  • Strong interest and capability to work with customers and drive customer engagements
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills, with experience running multiple projects and deadlines effectively
  • Experience working with automotive software technologies
  • Ability to travel internationally once every 4-6 weeks on average

Nice to have

  • Experience working on a product at a startup from Series A to IPO
  • Professional fluency in Korean (written and spoken) to support customers and partners in the Korea market

What the JD emphasized

  • engineer by training
  • technical depth
  • business impact
  • definitive expert
  • technical authority
  • automotive autonomy capabilities
  • automotive software technologies