Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager

ChipAgents; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Full benefits

Equity

Free lunch and snacks

Private gym

Job summary

ChipAgents seeks a Strategic Partnerships Manager to own external relationships driving growth for its AI-native platform. You will connect compute, data, and foundry access to partnerships, shaping the roadmap with product and R&D input and negotiating multi-party agreements.

The role collaborates across product, R&D, and GTM teams in a fast-moving environment, building a network of strategic relationships and scaling the company as a category-defining platform.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of partnerships or growth strategy experience at AI-native companies or similar environments.
• Proven ability to build and manage strategic relationships with large technical organizations.
• Experience structuring complex partnership agreements with technical and executive stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and communication skills to translate technical needs into strategy.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic relationships with cloud providers and semiconductor foundries.
• Drive co-selling motions and influence product architecture decisions.
• Identify data and compute providers to advance model training efforts.
• Structure complex lighthouse contracts covering commercial, investment, and co-development terms.
• Collaborate with product and R&D to find partnership opportunities and support build-vs-partner decisions.

Skills

Partnerships

Growth strategy

Executive stakeholder management

Analytical ability

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About ChipAgents

ChipAgents is revolutionizing chip design with agentic-AI workflows and the industry’s first domain specific LLM for chip design, Renoir. Founded by experts in AI and semiconductor design, we partner with top-10 semiconductor companies, hyperscalers, and cutting-edge startups. Our platform accelerates RTL development, functional verification, and formal verification, unlocking new levels of productivity and design quality.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Strategic Partnerships Manager to build and own the external relationships that power ChipAgents' growth. This role sits at the intersection of our product, R&D, and go-to-market efforts, translating our platform's needs for compute, data, foundry access, and strategic customer relationships into concrete partnerships with the companies that make our roadmap possible. You'll play a central role in building the network of strategic relationships that lets ChipAgents scale as both a product and a category defining platform.

Key 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

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in partnerships or growth strategy at AI-native companies, consulting, venture capital, or private equity

• Strong track record building and managing strategic relationships with large technical organizations (cloud providers, foundries, or similar)

• Comfort structuring and negotiating complex partnership agreements with technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders

• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to 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

Nice to Haves

• Experience with semiconductor foundries or hardware design workflows

• Experience structuring partnerships involving compute or data access for AI model training

• Background in the semiconductor or EDA industry

• Existing relationships with cloud providers, hyperscalers, or foundries

Why ChipAgents

• Build the partnership infrastructure for a category-defining AI platform at the intersection of the two biggest technology waves of the decade, AI and semiconductors.

• Own strategic partnerships from the ground up at an early-stage company, not inherit a playbook inside a large, established partnerships org.

• Work alongside a world-class technical team and an advisory board of EDA legends, with real product, real customers, and real scale already in production.

Equal Opportunity

ChipAgents is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds.

What We Offer

• $175k - 225K base salary + equity. Open to above-scale compensation for exceptional candidates.

• Unlimited PTO and full benefits (medical, vision, dental, 401k).

• Two engineering-centric offices with free parking, private gym, and free lunch, drinks and snacks.