Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager
About The Position
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. 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.
Requirements
- 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
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
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO and full benefits (medical, vision, dental, 401k)
- Two engineering-centric offices with free parking, private gym, and free lunch, drinks and snacks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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