Strategic Partner Manager — Frontier AI Ecosystems

Wordsmith; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, scaling rapidly in AI-enabled legal workflows. This Strategic Partner Manager will drive day-to-day execution, strategic alignment, and GTM activation across frontier alliances with Anthropic, Microsoft, and other leading ecosystems.

You will own partnerships end-to-end, shaping adoption, early access to frontier models, and joint marketing moments that position Wordsmith as the definitive legal AI layer on top of partners’

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years in strategic partnerships, BD, or product marketing with external instincts.
• Credible in product conversations with AI teams and model cards understanding.
• Proven track record managing complex external relationships with large tech giants.
• Strong GTM know-how: shipped joint campaigns and product launches end-to-end.
• World-class operator: organized, trackers, executive escalations.
• Curiosity about AI and willingness to own frontier AI layering for legal.

Responsibilities

• Bridge product/engineering with partner teams to enable deep adoption.
• Drive native ecosystem integration with Anthropic, Claude for Legal, Microsoft Copilot.
• Track release schedules and unlock early model previews and co-builds.
• Manage inbound partner opportunities and route them internally.
• Ship high-impact launches with marketing and partners.
• Coordinate joint events and roadmaps to generate pipeline.
• Maintain relationship cadence with partner contacts and execs.
• Map ecosystem stakeholders across partners.

Skills

Strategic partnerships

Business development

Product marketing

External relationships

GTM execution

Cross-functional collaboration

AI / LLMs

Job description

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, scaling rapidly in AI-enabled legal workflows. This Strategic Partner Manager will drive day-to-day execution, strategic alignment, and GTM activation across frontier alliances with Anthropic, Microsoft, and other leading ecosystems.

You will own partnerships end-to-end, shaping adoption, early access to frontier models, and joint marketing moments that position Wordsmith as the definitive legal AI layer on top of partners’