Hiring: Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager Company: ChipAgents Location: Santa Clara County, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 10:46:35 Target Skills & Keywords : EDA, Foundry, LLM, R About the job Experience: •7 years of experience in partnerships or growth strategy at AI-native companies, consulting, venture capital, or private equity Required Skills: •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 Qualifications: •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 •Demonstrated capacity to work cross-functionally with product, R&D, and go-to-market teams in a fast-moving environment •Background in the semiconductor or EDA industry •Existing relationships with cloud providers, hyperscalers, or foundries •Build the partnership infrastructure for a category-defining AI platform at the intersection of the two biggest technology waves of the decade, AI and semiconductors. •Own strategic partnerships from the ground up at an early-stage company, not inherit a playbook inside a large, established partnerships org. •Work alongside a world-class technical team and an advisory board of EDA legends, with real product, real customers, and real scale already in production. Compensation: •$175,000 - $225,000 / year 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!