Partner Director

Cognition • San Francisco, CA

10d

About The Position

We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, the AI-native IDE. Together, they represent our vision for collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower teams to strive for more ambitious goals. Our team is small and talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro. Building Devin and Windsurf is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us. About the Role As a Partner Director, you will be responsible for building Cognition’s partner ecosystem from the ground up — sourcing, recruiting, enabling, and activating partners that drive meaningful revenue for Cognition’s platform.. You will create partnerships from a standing start and turn them into partner-initiated business. This is not a maintenance role. You will define the strategy, build the program, support deals, and help close new business alongside our partners. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, sales, and marketing to build a high-leverage partner engine that accelerates Cognition’s growth and expands Devin’s reach into the world’s most ambitious technology organizations. Successful candidates will have 3+ years of experience in partnerships, channel, business development, sales, or strategic alliances, a strong understanding of the partner landscape, and the drive and grit required to build a revenue channel from zero in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in partnerships, channel, business development, sales, or strategic alliances
• a strong understanding of the partner landscape
• the drive and grit required to build a revenue channel from zero in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.

Responsibilities

• Build Cognition’s partner ecosystem from scratch, identifying and recruiting high-impact strategic, consulting, system integrators, and value added resellers.
• Develop and execute partner strategy across key segments (SIs, consultancies, and VARs)
• Own the full partner lifecycle — sourcing, vetting, onboarding, enablement, business planning, activation, and revenue generation
• Create joint go-to-market strategies and business plans with partners that drive pipeline and closed revenue
• Navigate complex partner organizations, aligning executives, practice leaders, and delivery teams
• Work closely with Cognition’s sales team to accelerate partner-influenced and partner-sourced opportunities
• Focus on results — generate pipeline, drive partner-initiated revenue, and build a scalable partner engine for Cognition

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed