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Waltham MA USA
Hybrid
309K-418K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Internet of Things • Semiconductor
Build What the World Depends On
The Role
Lead ecosystem and partner strategies to accelerate migration and adoption of Arm-based platforms. Build executive relationships with ISVs hyperscalers OEMs and integrators; define adoption roadmaps remove technical and business friction enable partner engineering and drive measurable production readiness and scaled deployments across cloud AI edge automotive and enterprise workloads.
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Job Overview
Arm is building the future of computing. As AI cloud edge automotive and enterprise workloads increasingly transition to Arm-based platforms customers developers and technology partners need trusted leadership to make adoption simple credible and scalable.
We are seeking a Market Development Director to join the Strategy and Ecosystem - Developer Relations organization. In this highly strategic business development role you will work directly with Arm's ecosystem partners cloud providers ISVs system integrators OEMs enterprise software vendors and hyperscalers to accelerate adoption of Arm-based solutions across priority workloads and market segments. Rather than carrying direct revenue ownership this role is focused on creating the conditions for adoption: aligning partners shaping migration plans removing ecosystem friction building executive sponsorship and helping customers and partners see a clear path from interest to scaled deployment.
This role combines strategic business development ecosystem strategy partner influence technical credibility and executive-level relationship management to drive software readiness and measurable adoption across the Arm ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Adoption Strategy and Ecosystem Leadership
Partner Enablement and Technical Credibility
Strategic Business Development and Market Expansion
Industry Leadership
What Success Looks Like
Required Skills and Experience
Preferred Skills and Experience
In Return
You will join one of the technology industry's most influential ecosystem organizations at a pivotal time in computing. This role provides the opportunity to shape adoption across the global Arm ecosystem influence partner and customer roadmaps and help define how priority workloads scale on Arm across AI cloud edge automotive and enterprise markets.
At Arm you'll collaborate with world-class architects engineers business leaders and ecosystem teams while working with some of the industry's most innovative technology companies. Together you'll help make Arm the platform of choice for developers partners and customers moving to the next generation of computing.
Salary Range:
$308600-$417500 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process please email [email protected] . To note by sending us the requested information you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list examples of support include breaks between interviews having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal regulatory tax or other considerations and where this is the case we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals and don't discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
Arm is building the future of computing. As AI cloud edge automotive and enterprise workloads increasingly transition to Arm-based platforms customers developers and technology partners need trusted leadership to make adoption simple credible and scalable.
We are seeking a Market Development Director to join the Strategy and Ecosystem - Developer Relations organization. In this highly strategic business development role you will work directly with Arm's ecosystem partners cloud providers ISVs system integrators OEMs enterprise software vendors and hyperscalers to accelerate adoption of Arm-based solutions across priority workloads and market segments. Rather than carrying direct revenue ownership this role is focused on creating the conditions for adoption: aligning partners shaping migration plans removing ecosystem friction building executive sponsorship and helping customers and partners see a clear path from interest to scaled deployment.
This role combines strategic business development ecosystem strategy partner influence technical credibility and executive-level relationship management to drive software readiness and measurable adoption across the Arm ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Adoption Strategy and Ecosystem Leadership
- Develop and execute adoption strategies that accelerate migration of priority applications workloads and software stacks from x86 and other platforms to Arm.
- Identify size and prioritize high-impact ecosystem opportunities where Arm can remove adoption barriers and create scaled market momentum.
- Build engage and manage senior relationships with ISVs cloud providers enterprise software vendors OEMs hyperscalers system integrators and strategic ecosystem partners.
- Work with partner engineering product management business development and executive teams to define adoption roadmaps migration milestones success metrics and operating plans.
- Help partners and customers understand the business value of adopting Arm including performance-per-watt total cost of ownership sustainability scalability AI readiness and differentiated user experiences.
Partner Enablement and Technical Credibility
- Partner with Arm Developer Relations Solution Engineering product and migration teams to help partners move from evaluation to production adoption.
- Use technical fluency to engage credibly with partner engineering teams and guide adoption of relevant Arm capabilities including Armv9 security and Confidential Computing SVE and SVE2 SME AI and ML acceleration virtualization and system-level performance enhancements.
- Advocate for software readiness optimization opportunities and developer experience improvements that reduce friction for customers and partners embracing Arm.
- Facilitate technical workshops executive briefings partner enablement programs and adoption reviews that connect technical progress to business outcomes.
Strategic Business Development and Market Expansion
- Develop partner strategies that create durable adoption pathways for Arm across cloud enterprise AI infrastructure and developer ecosystems.
- Influence partner product roadmaps platform investments migration priorities and customer-facing adoption motions.
- Collaborate with sales marketing product management engineering and ecosystem teams to develop joint go-to-market co-innovation and co-sell-style initiatives that increase Arm relevance and usage.
- Create and maintain executive-level relationships with strategic partners acting as a trusted business leader who can align customer needs partner priorities and Arm ecosystem objectives.
- Track adoption progress workload readiness partner commitments ecosystem gaps and business impact through clear metrics and operating mechanisms.
Industry Leadership
- Represent Arm at industry events conferences developer programs and executive forums.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on software migration optimization and ecosystem readiness.
- Gather market intelligence and competitive insights to help shape Arm's ecosystem strategy.
What Success Looks Like
- Priority partners have clear jointly agreed adoption plans that define target workloads migration landmarks executive sponsors technical dependencies and measurable success criteria.
- Strategic ISVs cloud providers system integrators and enterprise platform partners are moving from evaluation to production readiness on Arm-based platforms.
- Ecosystem friction points are identified prioritized and resolved through coordinated action across Arm engineering product developer relations marketing and partner teams.
- Partner and customer conversations increasingly shift from technical feasibility to scaled deployment workload expansion and long-term platform commitment.
- Arm has a stronger more visible position in priority adoption motions across cloud AI enterprise infrastructure edge automotive and developer ecosystems.
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering Business or a related field.
- Significant experience in strategic business development ecosystem development cloud partnerships developer relations product management strategic alliances or market development within the cloud enterprise software semiconductor AI/ML infrastructure or technology industries.
- Strong understanding of cloud adoption software development and deployment environments enterprise workloads and the factors that influence customer and partner technology adoption.
- Experience working with software vendors enterprise applications cloud platforms or infrastructure technologies.
- Demonstrated success building senior partner relationships influencing roadmap decisions and driving adoption-oriented outcomes through cross-functional alignment.
- Strong executive communication negotiation and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into compelling business value propositions.
- Ability to create clear adoption narratives business cases partner plans and executive-ready recommendations without relying on direct revenue ownership as the primary success measure.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across technical and business organizations.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous matrixed environments and using mechanisms metrics and partner commitments to turn strategy into measurable adoption progress.
- Willingness to travel as the need arises.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with cloud provider hyperscalers ISV system integrator or enterprise platform partnerships focused on technology adoption workload migration or ecosystem enablement.
- Knowledge of Linux cloud-native technologies containers Kubernetes virtualization and enterprise software ecosystems.
- Familiarity with modern software optimization techniques and performance analysis tools.
- Understanding of AI/ML workloads cloud infrastructure hyperscale environments and data center architectures.
- Experience working with processor architectures compilers toolchains or performance engineering teams.
- Existing relationships within the cloud software AI enterprise infrastructure or developer ecosystems including experience with AWS-style partner marketplace co-sell or workload adoption motions.
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
In Return
You will join one of the technology industry's most influential ecosystem organizations at a pivotal time in computing. This role provides the opportunity to shape adoption across the global Arm ecosystem influence partner and customer roadmaps and help define how priority workloads scale on Arm across AI cloud edge automotive and enterprise markets.
At Arm you'll collaborate with world-class architects engineers business leaders and ecosystem teams while working with some of the industry's most innovative technology companies. Together you'll help make Arm the platform of choice for developers partners and customers moving to the next generation of computing.
Salary Range:
$308600-$417500 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process please email [email protected] . To note by sending us the requested information you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list examples of support include breaks between interviews having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal regulatory tax or other considerations and where this is the case we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals and don't discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering Business or a related field.
- Significant experience in strategic business development ecosystem development cloud partnerships developer relations product management or strategic alliances in technology industries.
- Strong understanding of cloud adoption software development and deployment environments and enterprise workloads.
- Experience working with software vendors enterprise applications cloud platforms or infrastructure technologies.
- Demonstrated success building senior partner relationships and influencing roadmap and adoption outcomes.
- Strong executive communication negotiation and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into compelling business value propositions.
- Ability to create adoption narratives business cases partner plans and executive-ready recommendations.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across technical and business organizations.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous matrixed environments and using metrics and partner commitments to drive adoption.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
- Experience with cloud provider hyperscalers ISV system integrator or enterprise platform partnerships focused on technology adoption or workload migration.
- Knowledge of Linux cloud-native technologies containers Kubernetes and virtualization.
- Familiarity with software optimization techniques and performance analysis tools.
- Understanding of AI/ML workloads cloud infrastructure hyperscale environments and data center architectures.
- Experience working with processor architectures compilers toolchains or performance engineering teams.
- Existing relationships within cloud software AI or infrastructure ecosystems (hyperscalers marketplaces co-sell motions).
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
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At Arm we build the future of computing powering everything from smartphones to AI. Our 10x mindset drives bold thinking and deep collaboration to solve complex problems together. With a people first culture flexible work and strong support for growth and wellbeing your ideas can make a global impact while your career thrives.
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