Position Summary:
When you work at Daktronics, you’ll be part of something amazing. We design, engineer, manufacture and support bold, eye-catching digital LED display technology and audio systems.
Our products bring excitement to professional, college and high school games. They attract customers for businesses around the world, and even provide direction for people as they travel, work and play.
As part of the Daktronics team, you’ll have interesting, impactful work with flexible opportunities. You can learn and grow at a company that provides competitive compensation and meaningful benefits – and the people are second to none.
What will the work look like for me?
The Software Subscription Business Development is responsible for the commercial success and growth of Daktronics’ software and subscription services portfolio, including control software, content tools, data-driven applications, analytics, managed services, and future SaaS offerings.
This role owns the business strategy, ROI justification, packaging, positioning, and go‑to‑market execution for all software and subscription services. Working closely with Product Management, Global Sales, Services, IT, Finance, and Marketing, this leader ensures Daktronics’ software solutions are customer‑centric, scalable, operationally supported, and positioned to drive recurring revenue and long-term customer value.
This role acts as the connective tissue between market needs, product strategy, commercial execution, and internal systems enablement.
Key Responsibilities:
Software & Subscription Portfolio Ownership
- Own Daktronics’ software and subscription services business strategy across all market segments (Professional Sports, Colleges, High School, Transportation, Live Events, International, and emerging markets).
- Develop and maintain business cases, revenue models, and ROI analyses for each software and subscription offering.
- Partner with Finance to establish ARR, adoption, margin, and attach-rate targets.
- Evaluate new opportunities and enhancements to ensure alignment with Daktronics’ long-term growth strategy and installed base expansion.
Customer, Market & Solution Strategy
- Develop a deep understanding of Daktronics’ customers, venues, operators, and end users, including how they use software before, during, and after live events.
- Partner with Software Product Management to ensure solutions are designed around real customer workflows, operational needs, and monetization opportunities.
- Translate customer and market insights into clear value propositions for each solution.
- Monitor competitive landscape (fan engagement platforms, control systems, content tools, analytics, third-party SaaS providers) to guide strategic decisions.
Packaging, Pricing & Positioning
- Define and own software and subscription packaging strategies, including:
- Tiered offerings
- Bundled solutions (hardware + software + services)
- Market- or customer‑segment‑specific packages
- Partner to establish subscription pricing, licensing models, and renewal structures.
- Ensure offerings are easy to explain, easy to sell, and clearly differentiated.
- Continuously refine packaging based on customer feedback, adoption data, and sales performance.
Sales Enablement & Go‑to‑Market Leadership
- Create sales enablement tools that help Daktronics’ sales teams clearly communicate software value, including:
- Value-based messaging
- ROI calculators and business case tools
- Competitive positioning
- Use-case storytelling tied to venue outcomes
- Partner with Sales Leadership to define quarterly and annual software sales targets and go-to-market focus areas.
- Support strategic sales opportunities and executive-level customer engagements as needed.
- Ensure software is positioned as a core component of Daktronics’ total solution, not an add-on.
Systems, Infrastructure & Internal Enablement
- Partner with IT, Operations, and Services to ensure Daktronics has the right systems to support:
- Customer access and entitlements
- Subscription provisioning and renewals
- License management and usage tracking
- Reporting and performance visibility
- Advocate for tools and processes that improve:
- Customer onboarding
- Software adoption
- Renewal and expansion workflows
- Ensure internal teams can efficiently sell, deliver, support, and scale software subscriptions.
Reporting, Governance & Leadership Communication
- Provide quarterly and annual business updates to executive leadership on software and subscription performance.
- Track progress against targets and recommend adjustments to strategy, packaging, or investment.
- Serve as Daktronics’ internal subject matter expert on SaaS and recurring revenue models.
Where is this opportunity located?
Position has opportunity to work from a US Based home office. This position is open to candidates eligible to work in the United States in the state of South Dakota.
Qualifications:
To be considered for Software Subscription Business Development, we require the following:
- Bachelor’s degree coupled with 8–12+ years experience in software, SaaS, or subscription-based businesses, preferably in B2B or technology-enabled services.
- Strong experience with SaaS business models including packaging, pricing, positioning, and lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated ability to build ROI models and business cases that drive executive and sales alignment.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Product Management, Sales, IT, and Services.
- Proven success creating sales enablement tools that improve adoption and revenue outcomes.
- Strategic thinker with a practical, execution-focused mindset.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Effectively exercise discretion and independent judgment.
- The selected individual must be able to travel by air and ground and comply with the Daktronics Driver Eligibility Policy to begin and maintain employment. This requirement will be verified through a motor vehicle record (MVR) check conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, provincial, and local laws.
- Fluent in English, written and verbal.
- Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
- Daktronics does not sponsor, renew, or extend immigration visas for this position.
Desired traits
- Experience with venue technology, live events, sports, or large installed hardware bases.
- Familiarity with CRM, CPQ, licensing, entitlement, and billing systems.
- Experience transitioning organizations from one-time sales to recurring revenue models.
- Comfort operating in a matrixed, team-of-teams environment common at Daktronics.
What Success Looks Like in This Role
- Clear, scalable software and subscription offerings that align with Daktronics’ markets
- Increased ARR, attach rates, and software adoption
- Strong alignment between product roadmap, sales execution, and customer value
- Sales teams that confidently sell and articulate software value
- Internal systems and processes that support long-term subscription growth
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and start your journey with Daktronics.
Daktronics is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
