Director of Hardware Partnerships & Strategy

Meta; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 260,000 - 319,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Director of Strategic Partnerships to drive external engagements with emerging companies and technology partners across our infrastructure hardware portfolio. You will connect external relationships with Meta's engineering organizations and shape how Meta Infrastructure engages with the broader ecosystem.

The role combines product strategy, hardware engineering, corporate development and sourcing to evaluate technologies and shepherd opportunities through to procurement,

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between deeply technical and executive audiences.
• Track record of setting and executing partnership strategy across a multi-product portfolio.
• Experience contributing to or being on either side of M&A activity, strategic partnerships, or licensing deals.

Responsibilities

• Own the inbound and outbound partner engagement pipeline across hardware, storage, accelerators, custom silicon, memory, photonics, packaging, and adjacent infrastructure technology areas.
• Apply product-strategy rigor to evaluating emerging technologies — separating durable trends from hype, assessing fit and alignment to Meta's roadmap, and producing crisp recommendations.
• Coordinate technical due diligence by pairing external partners with the right internal subject-matter experts and shepherding the evaluation through to a clear recommendation.
• Stage opportunities through the funnel: initial conversation → proof-of-concept → handoff to procurement, licensing, or corporate development.
• Orchestrate work across Engineering, Product, TPM, Sourcing, Corporate Development, Finance, and Legal — to keep momentum on cross-functional partnership work.
• Feed market intelligence and competitive context into Meta's hardware planning and roadmap discussions.
• Provide guidance to external partners to help them align with where Meta's infrastructure is heading, without unnecessarily consuming engineering bandwidth.
• Protect engineering focus by filtering signal from noise on inbound vendor and partner traffic, and by giving clear, respectful direction to companies that are not a fit.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategy execution

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Meta is seeking a Director of Strategic Partnerships to drive external engagements with emerging companies and technology partners across our infrastructure hardware portfolio. You will connect external relationships with Meta's engineering organizations and shape how Meta Infrastructure engages with the broader ecosystem.

The role combines product strategy, hardware engineering, corporate development and sourcing to evaluate technologies and shepherd opportunities through to procurement,