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Cedar Rapids, Iowa · USA job

Business Development Manager - Robotics

Vishay Precision Group

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Job description

Overview

You will drive growth for a new division focused on robotics and consumer electronics by identifying opportunities, building strategic customer relationships, and shaping go-to-market approaches. You'll work across Sales, Applications Engineering, R&D, Marketing, and Product Management to move opportunities from concept to mass production. This is a highly visible role with a pipeline-driven, metrics-based focus in a remote-capable environment. Your impact will be measured by new logos, expanded top accounts, and a strong, actionable market insight stream.

Compensation / Benefits
  • Base Salary: $110,000 - $160,000 per year
  • Company sponsored medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, and FSA
  • Voluntary Critical Illness & Accidental Injury Insurance
  • 401(k) with 4% employer match
  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Bonuses eligible
Responsibilities
  • Identify, prospect, and develop new business opportunities in robotics, humanoid robotics, consumer electronics, and related technologies.
  • Build and expand relationships with strategic customers, including new logos and growth within top accounts.
  • Develop projects from early-stage discussions through commercialization and mass production.
  • Serve as a trusted technical and market advisor to customers, understanding challenges, requirements, and trends.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Applications Engineering, R&D, Marketing, and Product Management to support engagement and project development.
  • Promote sensing technologies (force, torque, strain) and related sensor solutions.
  • Maintain an opportunity pipeline and manage customer engagement via CRM tools.
  • Lead BD activities while coordinating internal resources to support the sales process.
  • Provide market intelligence, competitive insights, and customer feedback to inform strategy and product development.
  • Meet KPIs focused on project creation, opportunity development, customer engagement, and pipeline growth.
Key requirements
  • 7+ years in business development, strategic sales, technical sales, or account growth
  • Proven success identifying and developing opportunities in technical markets
  • Experience in robotics, humanoid robotics, automation, sensors, electronics, semiconductors, or related industries
  • Understanding of force/torque sensing, sensors, or electromechanical components (preferred)
  • Experience guiding products from concept to production
  • Strong relationship-building, communication, influencing, and presentation skills
  • Ability to engage both engineering and business stakeholders
  • Highly organized with pipeline management and project tracking
  • Experience using CRM platforms such as Salesforce
  • Self-motivated, independent in a remote environment
  • Willingness to travel up to 75%
  • relationship-building
  • communication
  • presentation skills
  • CRM (Salesforce)
  • force/torque sensing
  • sensors and measurement technologies

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