Dolby Laboratories Inc.
Director, Market Adoption
San Francisco, California,United States · Director · Full-time
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About the role
- At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code.
- As a member of the Dolby team, you'll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones.
- To do that, we need the absolute best talent.
Responsibilities
- Build and Activate Ecosystems: Develop and execute ecosystem strategies across standards bodies, industry alliances, device manufacturers, service providers, platform operators, regulators, and strategic partners to accelerate adoption and create sustainable market momentum.
- Translate Standards Leadership into Commercial Outcomes: Connect standards participation, technical innovation, ecosystem development, and commercialization efforts to create durable licensing opportunities and maximize returns on Dolby's technology and IP investments.
- Develop Market Positioning and Drive Adoption: Create compelling market narratives, value propositions, adoption frameworks, and success metrics that help internal and external stakeholders understand, deploy, and champion emerging technologies.
- Create and Scale New Growth Platforms: Identify and advance opportunities capable of becoming future licensing businesses.
- Partner with Standards, Patent Strategy, Licensing, Corporate Development, Product, Research, and Business Operations teams to transform promising technologies into scalable commercial opportunities and build repeatable commercialization playbooks.
- Experience building business cases, commercialization strategies, market assessments, and executive investment recommendations.
- Ability to define success metrics and drive execution through influence rather than direct authority.
- Ability to communicate credibly with engineers, standards experts, executives, partners, and industry leaders.
- Success in this Role The person in this role will: Create adoption momentum for emerging technology platforms.
- Build ecosystems that accelerate standards adoption and commercial deployment.
Requirements
- MBA, advanced technical degree, or equivalent combination of technical and commercial experience.
Nice to have
- Shape Commercialization and Adoption Strategy:
- Define commercialization, adoption, and ecosystem strategies for Dolby's current and future growth platforms.
- Translate market needs, standards evolution, and business objectives into actionable roadmaps that guide technology strategy, IP development, partnerships, and commercialization activities.
- Assess Commercialization Opportunities:
- Evaluate market readiness, ecosystem maturity, adoption barriers, and commercialization pathways for emerging technologies.
- Provide insights and recommendations that inform Dolby's business, technology, partnership, and investment decisions.
- Translate Standards Leadership into Commercial Outcomes:
- Identify and advance opportunities capable of becoming future licensing businesses.
Compensation
- $235k-$328k
Benefits
- Leadership and Influence Proven ability to align technical, legal, licensing, standards, strategy, and business stakeholders around a shared vision and execution plan.
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