Operator Sales Director

Dolby creates surround sound, imaging, and voice technologies for cinemas, home theaters, PCs, mobile devices, games, and more.

This role will develop and maintain relationships with both business and technical leaders at designated multiscreen partners, driving adoption of Dolby technologies across the partner’s ecosystem. Owning the partner relationship, this role, will work very closely with colleagues across Dolby to define and drive all strategic business and technical engagements, delivering efficient and effective outcomes that benefit Dolby and the specific partner.

* Progress, manage and close a pipeline of multiple strategic engagements and goals. * Architect a vision for successfully partnering across all relevant intersection points between Dolby and streaming services partners, prioritize and drive the engagements, and eradicate any barriers to closure and commitments. * Drive internal global teams to assist in executing on your overall account vision(s) and create opportunities to expand the business relationships with our partners. * Serve as the voice of the partner and marketplace within Dolby to influence a) the development of new products, services, and licensing programs, b) strategic direction of Dolby key initiatives.

**Requirements:** * BS /BA. MBA desired. A minimum of 7 years of related experience within the market segment and accounts targeted required * Proven track record in developing relationships with key decision makers and influencers (technical and business) to progress and close large technology commercial deals or partnerships. * Deep understanding and experience in “ecosystem” type market development and selling. * Ability to think big picture, long-term and creatively in establishing and adapting strategies in accounts and engagements, as market dynamics require. * Ability to identify and gain support of internal stakeholders across an organization in order to assemble, drive and motivate virtual teams to achieve results * Strong understanding of several of the following areas: Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Home Theater, PC, and Mobile ecosystems and dynamics, how manufacturers, developers, streaming services are structured, make money, related trends, development cycles, and decision-making criteria(s). * Strong negotiation skills, highly persuasive with an ability to drive toward mutually agreeable outcomes. * Must have executive presence and clear communication skills with the capability of persuading others to accept product/solution concepts that may differ from their initial perspectives The ideal and successful candidate will also possess an under-the-hood knowledge of many of the following areas applicable to the world of digital media and streaming services: * Strong understanding of several of the following areas: Internet Television, Connected CE Device trends, Consumer Entertainment trends and related ecosystems and market dynamics. * Audio/Video formats and codecs, encoding and adaptive streaming frameworks for streaming services * Digital content workflows for creating and packaging video/audio for streaming services * Next generation audio and video (4K and High Dynamic Range) related technologies and trends * HTML5 and Web delivery related technologies and trends