Partnerships Associate

Generalist • Somerville, MA

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About The Position

Generalist is building general intelligence for the physical world, developing embodied foundation models with an initial focus on dexterity. The Partnerships Associate serves as a point of contact for prospective partners, communicates Generalist’s technology and vision, develops technical fluency in its models, evaluates partnership opportunities, and advances promising relationships toward concrete outcomes. The role owns partner initiatives end-to-end and coordinates closely with ML/engineering, product, GTM, and leadership. It also represents Generalist with partners and at relevant industry events and conferences as needed.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of professional experience in a demanding, high-ownership environment, such as a technology company, startup, management consulting, or similar, with a record of delivering high-quality work on tight timelines.
• Ability to own and drive multiple cross-functional initiatives simultaneously, create clarity from ambiguity, and execute end-to-end with minimal oversight.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills, including managing parallel conversations and workstreams while tracking details, owners, timelines, and follow-up.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to understand complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to different audiences.
• Strong technical curiosity and demonstrated ability to quickly develop fluency in complex products or technologies.
• High energy, responsiveness, strong interpersonal skills, and enjoyment of building relationships and representing technology with external partners.
• Strong judgment to assess opportunities, prioritize where to invest time, and drive conversations toward clear next steps.
• High integrity, reliability, and consistent follow-through.
• Comfort working in a fast-changing environment where priorities, processes, and responsibilities may be ambiguous and evolve quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in AI/ML, robotics, developer platforms, or another complex technical environment.
• Experience owning partner or customer engagements from initial conversation through execution and ongoing success.
• Experience in partnerships, business development, product/program management, strategy and operations, or another role combining external relationships with operational execution.
• Demonstrated ability to craft clear external narratives and crisp internal decision memos for high-visibility workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a high-energy point of contact for prospective partners, communicate Generalist’s technology and vision, build relationships, and identify partnership opportunities.
• Develop deep familiarity with Generalist’s models and technology to explain concepts, demonstrate capabilities, identify use cases, and help partners understand what is possible.
• Evaluate partnership opportunities, understand partner needs and potential value, prioritize promising opportunities, and move relationships toward concrete next steps.
• Own partner initiatives end-to-end by creating workplans, assigning owners, setting milestones and timelines, and keeping stakeholders moving toward outcomes.
• Manage multiple partner workstreams with strong organization and communication, synthesizing technical and business topics into partner communications, internal updates, decisions, and next steps.
• Coordinate with ML/engineering, product, GTM, and leadership to address partner needs, surface decisions, minimize internal overhead, and ensure follow-through.
• Represent Generalist with partners and at relevant industry events and conferences as needed.

What This Job Offers

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