Strategic Partnerships Manager — AI & Semiconductors

ChipAgents; California (MO); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary $175k–$225k

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Full benefits

Two offices with parking

Free lunch and snacks

Job summary

ChipAgents is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Manager to build and own external relationships that power our growth. This role sits at the intersection of product, R&D, and go-to-market efforts, translating our platform's needs into concrete partnerships with cloud providers, foundries, and data/compute providers.

You will structure multi-party agreements with lighthouse customers and drive strategic co-development terms.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of partnerships or growth strategy experience.
• Proven ability to build and manage strategic relationships with large technical organizations.
• Experience structuring and negotiating complex partnership agreements with technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and communication skills; translate technical needs into partnership strategy.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with product, R&D, and go-to-market teams in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic relationships with cloud providers, including driving co-selling motion and providing strategic inputs to product architecture choices.
• Manage strategic relationships with semiconductor foundries to ensure support for R&D and productization efforts at advanced nodes.
• Identify and manage relationships with data and compute providers to advance model training efforts.
• Structure complex, multithreaded agreements with lighthouse customers that cover commercial, investment, and product co-development terms.
• Work closely with product and R&D to identify partnership opportunities that enhance ChipAgents' product suite, lending strategic support to build versus partner decisions.

Skills

Strategic partnerships

Relationship management

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Communication

Job description

ChipAgents is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Manager to build and own external relationships that power our growth. This role sits at the intersection of product, R&D, and go-to-market efforts, translating our platform's needs into concrete partnerships with cloud providers, foundries, and data/compute providers.

You will structure multi-party agreements with lighthouse customers and drive strategic co-development terms.