Hiring: Manager, Corporate Development Company: Tenstorrent Location: Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:54:08 Employment Type: Remote About the job Required Skills: •Own deal workstreams from evaluation through negotiation and execution across fundraising, M&A, strategic partnerships, licensing, and commercial transactions. Lead due diligence processes, data rooms, and transaction execution with internal teams and external advisers. •Build business cases and structure commercial terms with partners, customers, and investors, and negotiate term sheets and definitive documentation alongside counsel. Develop and manage relationships across the AI, semiconductor, and data center ecosystem and with investors and advisers. •Prepare board, investor, and executive materials on strategic alternatives, capital raising, competitive positioning, and partnership economics, and present findings directly to the CEO, CSO, and executive team. Lead investor and partner roadshows and executive meetings alongside senior leadership. •Coordinate engineering, product, sales, legal, and finance teams on live transactions, and manage and develop junior members of the team. •How a private AI hardware company raises capital and manages its investor base through successive rounds. •How high-value partnership, licensing, and M&A transactions are structured, negotiated, and closed. •The competitive and economic dynamics of the AI hardware, semiconductor, and data center markets. •What it takes to own a deal and a counterparty relationship end to end. Qualifications: •A leader who is comfortable managing several direct reports, delegates effectively, and manages up with equal skill. Succinct in front of senior management. You present clearly and briefly to senior internal and external audiences and you know what the decision turns on. •Difficult to rattle and practical. You stay steady when a process does not go to plan, you have common sense, and you get things done even when the problem does not sit with your team or in your job description. Able to operate independently and run a workstream without close direction. •A natural networker who is at ease working a room, speaking to large groups, pitching Tenstorrent, and closing. Credible in client-facing settings and comfortable leading conversations with partners, customers, and investors, and willing to travel when a deal requires it. •Analytically strong, with sound commercial judgment and the ability to turn analysis into decisions. Serious about the work and good company while doing it. You can take a joke and make one, then put your head down and finish the job. •Knowledgeable about, or eager to learn, the semiconductor, data center, and AI markets, with a genuine passion and interest in technology. Compensation: •$100,000 - $500,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!