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Generative media in the blink of an API.

Senior Partnerships Manager

Account ManagerSalesFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 11-50Since 2023H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Worldwide

Posted

13 days ago

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0

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Senior Partnerships Manager

Runware

Role Description Runware is looking for a Senior Partnerships Manager to own and scale our strategic relationships with the world’s leading AI model providers. This person will ensure we have the strongest possible commercial terms, roadmap visibility, product access, market insights, and strategic value from our model-provider ecosystem. They will be the central owner for model-provider partnerships and will work closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Legal to turn external AI partnerships into measurable business value. This is a senior, cross-functional commercial role for someone who is an excellent negotiator, a trusted relationship-builder, and a fast learner in a rapidly changing AI market. The ideal candidate can build deep relationships externally, negotiate hard commercially, and translate model-provider capabilities into internal product decisions, customer-facing value, and improved unit economics. What You’ll Do - Own and negotiate strategic model-provider relationships: Manage and deepen relationships with leading generative media model providers, including Google, OpenAI, Black Forest Labs, ElevenLabs, Luma AI, ByteDance, Runway, and Ideogram. - Negotiate best-in-market commercial terms: Lead negotiations on pricing, volume commitments, credits, preferred access, support levels, SLAs, roadmap visibility, co-marketing, launch support, enterprise terms, and non-standard strategic deal structures. - Turn partnerships into business value: Identify and execute opportunities that improve product capabilities, reduce costs, improve margins, accelerate model launches, enhance customer experience, or differentiate Runware in the market. - Coordinate across internal teams: Act as the connective tissue between model providers and Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and leadership. - Maintain AI market intelligence: Track new model releases, benchmark shifts, pricing changes, context-window improvements, multimodal capabilities, latency and reliability tradeoffs, enterprise terms, ecosystem moves, and competitor access. - Drive partner-led launches on the commercial side: Coordinate timing with model creators, secure preferred or exclusive access, align launch narratives across Marketing and Sales, and partner with Product and Engineering on the integration build. - Support GTM and customer communication: Help Sales and Marketing translate model-provider updates into customer-facing value, launch narratives, partner comparison notes, competitive positioning, sales enablement, and customer-ready messaging. - Build a scalable partnership operating rhythm: Create and maintain partner account plans, executive relationship maps, QBRs, negotiation trackers, pricing and terms databases, launch calendars, model-update summaries, escalation paths, and partnership performance reporting. Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, partner management, commercial strategy, enterprise sales, vendor management, or a related role. - Strong track record negotiating complex commercial agreements with strategic partners, vendors, platforms, infrastructure providers, SaaS companies, cloud providers, API companies, or technology ecosystems. - Excellent commercial judgment, including the ability to evaluate pricing, usage commitments, deal structures, margin impact, and long-term strategic value. - Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and executive stakeholders. - Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical and commercial information for different audiences. - High ownership, strong follow-through, structured execution, and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous market. Requirements - Experience in AI, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, API businesses, SaaS, data infrastructure, or enterprise software. - Understanding of the AI model ecosystem: frontier labs, open-source models, inference providers, multimodal models, model pricing, latency, context windows, enterprise deployment needs, and AI application architecture. - Technical fluency sufficient to discuss model performance, API capabilities, inference requirements, context windows, multimodality, fine-tuning, evaluation, latency, reliability, and model launches. - Prior experience negotiating with large technology vendors, cloud providers, platform partners, or strategic ecosystem partners. - Experience building partner programs, partner operating cadences, QBRs, partner scorecards, or executive-level relationship maps. Benefits - Generous paid time off – vacation, sick days, public holidays. - Meaningful stock options – share in the upside you create. - Remote-first setup – work from home anywhere we can employ you. - Flexible hours – own your schedule outside core collaboration blocks. - Family leave – paid maternity, paternity, and caregiver time. - Company retreats – twice-yearly gatherings in inspiring locations.

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