Client Partnerships Manager

Hive; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Deploy, a fast-growing AI startup in San Francisco, seeks a Client Partnerships Manager to guide strategic collaboration with major enterprises and oversee a 2–3 person analyst team. You will work with the executive team to drive growth and deliver successful deployments.

The role emphasizes leadership, client-facing excellence, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product. Compensation ranges from $90,000 to $160,000 with stock options; location is San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 5 years total work experience, including 3–5 years at a top management consulting firm.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated success in a competitive environment.
• Highly self-motivated and ambitious with a strong drive to achieve goals.
• Strong team player, able to work independently.
• Proactive and capable of contributing across roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of client partnership initiatives and oversee delivery of high-profile enterprise projects.
• Collaborate with top clients and partners to support business development and project execution.
• Develop business cases for new Deploy products and initiatives.
• Identify and optimize existing procedures, systems, and processes for efficiency.
• Serve as a generalist to help the company grow, anticipating challenges and adapting quickly.
• Maintain awareness of data handling best practices and information security policies.
• Ensure compliance with information protection policies and report any incidents.

Skills

Leadership

Client management

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Project delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About Deploy

Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. For leading open source LLMs, Deploy operates an optimized model inference engine that keeps costs and latency low while maintaining high throughout. Deploy also offers a set of proprietary AI models that address challenges in content safety, AI & deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP & publicity protection. Trusted by the world's largest and most innovative organizations, Deploy's solutions unlock high-performance AI model inference at production scale.
Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi.

Client Partnerships Manager Role

Deploy is looking for a strong leader to provide direction, oversight, and management of client partnerships across the board. As a client partnerships manager at Deploy, you will work closely with our executive team to support the growth of our business, including working directly with some of our largest clients and partners as well as management of a team of analysts to support business development and client success efforts. Our ideal candidate has strong generalist skills and a proven background of leadership. They are able to step into any role and help out with any project as needed. A passion for startups and AI is a must.

Responsibilities

• Lead the solution design, project delivery, and customer success of high profile enterprise client projects, in partnership with the executive team, in collaboration with engineering / product teams, and with oversight of a 2-3 person business analyst team
• Collaborate with our largest clients and partners to support business development and project delivery efforts (i.e. client-facing role with some of our largest enterprise clients)
• Lead the development of business cases for new Deploy products and initiatives
• Actively look for ways to improve upon and optimize existing procedures, systems, and processes
• Act as a generalist in getting anything and everything done to help the company grow; anticipate challenges, react promptly and calmly to necessary changes, and ease our growing pains
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
• Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
• Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Preferred: You have at least 5 years of total work experience including at least 3-5 years of experience at a top management consulting firm
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated success in a competitive environment
• Highly self-motivated and ambitious in achieving goals
• Strong team player, but can work and execute independently
• Driven; no one needs to push you to excel, that's just who you are
• Hungry to learn and actively look for opportunities to contribute
• Highly organized and detail-oriented; can handle multiple projects and dynamic priorities without missing a beat

Who We Are

We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Deploy, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.

Thank you for your interest in Deploy and we hope to meet you soon!

The current expected base salary for this position ranges from $90,000 - $160,000. Actual compensation may vary depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; stock options may be offered in addition to the range provided here.