Data Partnerships Manager

Milestone Systems; København; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Milestone Hafnia is seeking a Data Partnerships Manager to lead strategy and execution for globally sourcing data partnerships in AI training use-cases. You will identify potential providers, negotiate agreements, and close deals that enable access to camera, sensor, or video data for model training.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with legal and compliance to ensure privacy and ethical sourcing, build relationships across sectors, and travel as needed to secure partnerships and manage data

Qualifications

• Must-have: proven track record in business development, partnerships, or data sourcing and licensing.
• Must-have: strong negotiation skills with executive and legal stakeholders.
• Must-have: experience with public sector or large private organizations.
• Must-have: ability to Structure deals from scratch without existing budgets.
• Must-have: working understanding of AI training data and privacy concerns.
• Nice-to-have: experience with video data, AI/computer vision, or data platforms.
• Nice-to-have: knowledge of EU AI Act and data governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the global data acquisition strategy and pipeline from prospecting through close.
• Build relationships with municipalities, enterprises, and infrastructure owners across sectors.
• Structure commercial and licensing agreements with legal and compliance teams.
• Ensure partnerships meet privacy, consent, and ethical sourcing standards.
• Represent Hafnia in strategic discussions with senior external stakeholders.
• Manage secure data transfer from clients to Milestone infrastructure.
• Travel to data providers to close contracts and oversee data transfer.

Skills

Business development

Strategic partnerships

Data sourcing

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

AI data familiarity

GDPR / data governance

Tools

Contract drafting

Job description

Data Partnerships Manager

A new role, yours to shape

The role is about creating entirely new data-sharing partnerships with organizations that have never considered making their video data available for AI Models. This is about building trust, navigation of legal and contract processes, and the ability to structure novel License to Data agreements. It’s not about buying data. It’s about building a fair exchange in value for that data.

This is a newly created position, you won't be stepping into an existing playbook, you'll be writing it.. You'll have real influence over how Hafnia builds data partnerships from the ground up, and the chance to define what this role becomes as the team and library scale.

What you bring

Must-have:

• Strong track record in business development, strategic partnerships, or data/commercial sourcing, ideally including complex licensing or data-sharing agreements
• Strong commercial negotiation skills and experience engaging executive and legal stakeholders
• Experience working in the public sector and/ or big private organisations
• Comfort creating deals where there's no existing budget or buying process. You build the case and the relationship from scratch
• Working understanding of AI/ML training data, especially computer vision or multimodal data
• Familiarity with GDPR and data governance frameworks like the EU AI Act
• Excellent stakeholder management, from technical teams to senior leadership
• Knowledge of Data transfer processes and Data Security

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with video data, camera infrastructure, or VMS ecosystems
• Background in AI, Computer Vision, or data platform companies
• Knowledge of emerging AI compliance frameworks (EU AI Act, ISO standards)
• Experience sourcing data or partnerships across multiple regions (EMEA, North America, APAC)

The role

You’ll lead the strategy and execution behind Hafnia’s global data partnership efforts: identifying, negotiating, and closing Data partnerships with organizations (public and private sector) that hold camera, sensor, or video infrastructure but have never considered making that data available for AI Model training.

In practice, that means:

• Owning the global data acquisition strategy and pipeline, from prospecting through close
• Building relationships with municipalities, enterprises, and infrastructure owners across sectors (smart cities, transportation, retail, logistics, and more)
• Structuring novel commercial and licensing agreements alongside legal and compliance
• Ensuring every partnership meets the highest bar for privacy, consent, and ethical sourcing
• Representing Hafnia in strategic conversations with senior external stakeholders
• Managing secure Data transfer from the Client to Milestone infrastructure
• Travel to visit data providers for both closing contracts and ensuring end-to-end management of the data transfer

We’re less focused on hitting a specific number of deals and more on the quality and trust behind each partnership. This role is measured by the strength of what you build, not just volume.

About Milestone Hafnia

Project Hafnia is Milestone Systems' initiative to build the world's largest compliant, ethically sourced data library for AI model training and vision-language model fine-tuning. Earlier this year, Milestone brought Berlin-based brighter AI - a leading name in AI-powered video anonymization and a two-time "hottest AI startup" recognition from Nvidia - into the Milestone family. Their anonymization technology is now a core pillar of Hafnia, letting us turn sensitive video data into safe, usable training data without compromising anyone’s privacy. Together, Hafnia and brighter AI are building the infrastructure for responsible, privacy-first AI.

This role is central to how we source the data that makes it possible.

Application Process

Please note that applying for this position requires a valid Danish work visa.

At Milestone Systems, we are committed to providing an inclusive and unbiased recruitment process where all employment decisions are based on qualifications, experience, and potential.

About Us

Milestone Systems is a leading provider of data-driven video technology software. Our portfolio includes XProtect video management software, Arcules video surveillance as a service, and BriefCam analytics. We amplify what organizations of any size can see, do, and achieve with video.

Guided by our People First mindset - freedom, inclusion, and togetherness we always consider our employees, partners, and communities in everything we do.