We're the rain on the roof in a movie. The music flowing through your earbuds when you're at the gym. The footsteps lurking behind you in a video game. The voice of a colleague on a call who seems to be right next to you. The sight of a breathtakingly bright and vivid sunset on your TV.

Making experiences come alive through technology is what we do. It's been our mission since day one.

It began with our founder, Ray Dolby, a visionary scientist and inventor. As a young engineer and music lover, he was driven to improve the listening experience. And with that simple motivation, plus countless hours of experimentation, he created a solution—a solution that was elegant and practical, highly sophisticated, and wholly devoted to the artist's vision. Even as we've become a global company, Dolby Laboratories continues to reflect Ray Dolby's values. Here, science meets art. And high tech goes far beyond computer code.

Founded in 1965 and headquartered in San Francisco, Dolby has grown into a leading global innovator and developer of audio, imaging and voice technologies for cinema, home theaters, PCs, mobile phones, and games. Our products include Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Dolby Voice, Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. Today, over 2,000 individuals around the globe share their talents and energy to enable the most immersive experiences that technology can deliver.

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. 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. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is the research division of the company. ATG’s mission is to look ahead, deliver insights, and innovate technological solutions that will fuel Dolby’s continued growth. Our researchers have a broad range of expertise related to computer science and electrical engineering, such as AI/ML, algorithms, digital signal processing, audio engineering, image processing, computer vision, data science & analytics, distributed systems, cloud, edge & mobile computing, computer networking, and IoT.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a Staff Innovation Analyst who has a passion for evaluating and incubating innovation ideas from a market potential perspective. To be effective in this role you need an ongoing interest in technology, industry, and market trends. As a key member of the ATG Big Idea Innovation team, you will contribute to evolving and leading the innovation process in Dolby through close collaboration with multiple organizations. Our focus in Big Idea Innovation team is to generate new high potential opportunities for Dolby. Our job is to disrupt, to provoke thoughts, and to spark conversations by challenging the established practices and thinking differently. Our team owns the process that takes in and prioritizes both top-down and bottom-up ideas. A priority for the role is to support project teams to qualify and develop ideas with a large market opportunity and strong industry fit and ideate about go-to-market strategies.

Key responsibilities are:

• Maintain a working knowledge of key industry, technology, and market trends.
• Research and understand industry landscapes to support idea assessments.
• Identify new market opportunities and innovation spaces for Dolby.
• Conduct market analysis to determine the total addressable market (TAM) for candidate Big Ideas. Additionally, estimate the potential costs associated with scaling and implementing the concept in the market vs. potential expected returns.
• Perform competitive market landscaping around key innovation projects.
• Participate in building out our market analytics insight capability including important industry trackers within the technology sector.

You might be asked to play a product manager role for the early stages of innovation projects and:

• Identify high-value demos to build to demonstrate the idea.
• Present demos to key partners and internal stakeholders.
• Analyze feedback and identify the next steps of iteration.
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to create alignment across the organization around specific innovation projects.

Desired Background

• Minimum master’s degree required in business, or equivalent technical business degree.
• 3-5 years of working in the tech industry with a passion for innovation, technology, and product-market fit
• Experience working with XR, Imaging, or Computer Vision Products
• Experience incubating new technologies and/or business opportunities into new markets against strong value propositions, ideally including opportunity evaluation, prototyping, and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to quickly learn and build up sufficient knowledge of a market or technology area to inform key assumptions.
• Able to analyze market data, understand market dynamics, and model addressable markets.
• Strong oral and written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; excellent team player.
• Ability to synthesize diverse sets of information and frame coherent rationales for decision-making.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with diverse teams, both functionally and geographically.
• Nice to have but not required: proficient with business analytics and visualization tools e.g. Tableau, SiSense,