Founding Technical Partnerships Lead
About the Role
This is a founding role at an early-stage AI data and evaluation infrastructure company, sitting at the intersection of technical research and commercial strategy. You will be the primary bridge between the company and the teams training the world's most advanced AI models, working directly with researchers and technical leaders to shape datasets, evaluations, and long-term partnerships. The role carries significant individual ownership and the opportunity to build and lead a partnerships function from the ground up.
What You'll Do
Build and manage relationships with researchers and technical leaders at frontier AI labs to understand their priorities and constraints.
Identify technical needs across post-training, evaluations, agents, and scientific data.
Translate technical requirements from ML researchers into concrete dataset designs, experimental specifications, and evaluation frameworks.
Feed customer insights and feedback directly into the ML and product roadmap.
Define and execute go-to-market strategy and positioning for partnerships with advanced AI teams.
Help establish how the company engages with and scales its relationships across frontier researc
