Head of AI Strategy & Partnerships, North America

Nothing; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Nothing is building a technology company centered on design, emotion, and human creativity. The Head of AI Partnerships & Strategy, North America, will shape product direction and secure partnerships that ship on our devices.

You will collaborate with a co-founder and a growing San Francisco engineering team to turn alliances into product features, focusing on AI models, platforms, and developer infrastructure. Location: San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Has shipped partner-enabled capabilities in a product.
• Can discuss integration paths and trade-offs (on-device vs cloud).
• Established relationships with AI labs and model providers.
• Background in product strategy or technology strategy alongside partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Identify external models or tools to improve products and guide direction.
• Build relationships with AI labs and platforms, including outreach to new partners.
• Structure partnerships with clear terms and outcomes.
• Lead partnerships from signing to live with engineering and product teams.
• Develop repeatable processes to select, review, and scale partnerships.

Skills

Partnering from first conversation to产

Product strategy

Engineering collaboration

Dealmaking

On-device vs cloud trade-offs

Relationship building with AI labs

Strategic thinking

Negotiation & structuring deals

Decision making under uncertainty

Affinity for Nothing brand

Job description

Nothing exists to make tech feel exciting again.

We’re building a different kind of technology company, one that puts design, emotion, and human creativity at the heart of everything we do. From the way our products look and feel to how we communicate and show up in culture, we believe technology should make you feel something.

Founded in London in 2020, we’ve grown from idea to global challenger in just a few years. Backed by GV (Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, and C Ventures, and investors like Tony Fadell (iPod), Casey Neistat, and Kevin Lin (Twitch), we’re now sold in 40+ markets with millions of users worldwide.

About the role

Head of AI Partnerships & Strategy, North America

AI should run on the devices you carry, work across all of them, and actually get things done. That's a hard problem, and we're solving it from the operating system up.

The partners we choose will shape a large share of what we ship, so this role is as much product strategy as dealmaking. You'll decide who we build with, help set product direction around those choices, and see each partnership through until it's live on our devices.

You'll work directly with one of our co-founders and alongside a growing engineering team in San Francisco that turns the partnerships you win into product. Your remit covers the AI and technology ecosystem we build on: model providers, cloud and AI platforms, and agent and developer infrastructure. Hardware and silicon partnerships are in scope when they lead to something we can ship.

Why this role

• The partners you bring in will define a large part of what our devices can do.
• You'll work with our engineering team in San Francisco to build what you sign, together, so partnerships end up in users' hands, not in press releases.
• You'll join at the early stage, shape the strategy and write the playbook for how Nothing works with the AI ecosystem. There's no book of accounts to inherit; you'll build it.
• We care what you've shipped, not your years of experience.

What you'll do

• Work out where an outside model, platform or tool would make our products materially better, and shape product direction around it with product and engineering
• Build relationships with AI labs and the platforms around them, and open doors from cold where the right partner doesn't know us yet
• Structure partnerships that work for both sides, including non-standard ones, and own the terms
• Take each partnership from signed to live, working with our engineers through integration, pilot and launch, and be clear about whether it worked
• Know when to walk away from a partnership, and build a repeatable way for us to choose and review them

What you'll bring

Must have

• You've taken a partner from first conversation to a capability live in a product, owned it end to end, and can explain how it shaped the product. AI partnerships (models, agent or developer infrastructure, AI platforms) are strongly preferred; cloud, API, SDK or platform integration partnerships also count
• You can go deep with engineers and product leads on integration paths and trade-offs, such as on-device versus cloud, latency, cost and what breaks
• You've originated partnerships from cold, ideally where the brand didn't open the door for you
• Existing relationships across AI labs and model providers
• A product management or technology strategy background alongside partnerships
• You know when to stop or reshape a deal, and can explain why
• Partnership systems you built (qualification, pilots, reviews) that others still use
• Device, silicon or on-device AI partnerships that led to a shipped or prototyped capability
• Genuine affinity for Nothing's brand and design-led mission

How We Work

• Location: San Francisco. You'll likely spend much of your time out with partners

Nothing offers excellent benefits and competitive compensation packages. The base salary pay range for this role is $220,000 - 275,000 USD. Qurrent is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.