AICS will leverage the ASUS ecosystem and various partners to design, build and deploy end-to-end AI-enabled solutions at scale.  Our culture advocates grassroots innovation and continuous learning. We are open-minded about exploring new products and services so you are welcome to bring your startup ideas, passion and curiosities to help us build the next generation of AI businesses.

Early-Stage Business Development Role:

As an early-stage BD, you will need to be scrappy, flexible, and creative.  You will help us find early users, broker deals, manage partnerships, and identify growth strategies for a portfolio of new AI products and services.

Responsibilities:

• Identify target market, early users, and develop relationships with prospective customers.
• Develop simple and easy to understand business case pitch to potential customers.
• Build, manage and prioritize BD pipeline.
  • Identify good-fit potential customers and build / manage relationship.
  • Identify areas for strategic leverage.
  • Represent company well and plan/prepare/conduct external meetings and presentations.
  • Identify customer needs and work with team to incorporate feedback to.
  • Structure win-win relationships and projects, convert into sales.
• Collaborate with product & ENG teams on product specs and provide customer feedback.
• Become an expert on products, use cases, and industry.  Help us find new markets and opportunities to bring our products to market.
• Ability to wear multiple hats including BD, sales, and product development.
• Comfortable with uncertainty and iterative development as we are operating like a startup building new AI businesses.

Qualifications:

• High-level communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to negotiate and track record of leading successful B2B sales deals.
• Experience with design, implementation & iteration of business development strategy.
• Experience in early-stage startups or new ventures.
• Background in Business, Marketing or other related fields.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and self-starter.
• Executing in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience and understanding of AI/ML/Data Science products.
• Ability to communicate well in English and Chinese.
• Ability to travel to meet with potential overseas clients.