Business Development Director
Partly
Business Development Director
Partly
Automotive parts data platform enabling marketplace
Note: Partly is headquartered in Austin, TX with offices in London, UK, Christchurch, NZ and Auckland, NZ. Wherever you're based, we'll connect you with your nearest office for onboarding, and fly you to join the full team for our quarterly "Season Openers" (we cover travel and accommodation). If you're relocating to join us, we can also assist with relocation costs.
Partly is building the infrastructure for anyone to repair anything. We believe everything built should be repairable, and we're building frontier AI to put repair knowledge to work, starting with the $2tn automotive market.
Our model, Interpreter, is the first AI purpose-built to understand repair. Trained on 1M+ car models and 1B+ parts, it reads a repair job the way an estimator does, resolves damage into the exact purchasable part, and shows its reasoning with a confidence score. On real production jobs, an estimator working with Interpreter reaches 98.8% parts-list accuracy, against 92.1% with today's tools. It powers PartlyRepair, used by collision shops, workshops and suppliers to take the admin off the job; PartlyLabs, the agentic infrastructure enterprises use to deploy Interpreter across their own workflows; and a developer API.
Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we've raised a $50m Series B led by DST Global (Anthropic, Airbnb, Meta, TikTok, Spotify), with Blackbird Ventures, WNDR, Activant Capital, Icehouse Ventures, Square Peg, Airtree and Ecliptic Venture Capital. Hear it from the team: Why Partly exists and AI at Partly.
As Business Development Director, Enterprise, USA, you'll own Partly's entire commercial expansion in the US — bringing Interpreter, the world's first foundation model built for automotive repair, to the largest insurers, OEMs, suppliers and repair networks in the country. It's a hands-on role: you'll work directly with enterprise customers to understand their use cases and help them build on Partly's infrastructure, while building the team that takes it to scale. You'll be close to both the customer and the product, turning real use cases into partnerships that put Partly's AI Parts Infrastructure to work at scale.
Own Partly's US expansion end-to-end — proposition, team, and commercial outcomes
Bring Partly's AI Parts Infrastructure to the largest insurers, OEMs, suppliers and repair networks in the US
Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their use cases and help them build on Interpreter
Identify, develop and close high-value partnerships across the automotive parts and repair ecosystem
Represent Partly at a senior level with insurers, OEMs, suppliers, and repair networks
Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and limited established process
Founder/operator mentality — you've built something from zero before, not just scaled an existing motion
Credibility across insurers, MSOs, OEM/dealer, and repair segments
Ability to move fluidly between selling, shaping product requirements, and running the work like a project
Prior experience building a market or category from scratch
Experience within a high-tech, infrastructure-first company with a fast-evolving product set and business model
Exposure to category creation or market education in emerging or complex industries
Familiarity with automotive parts, collision repair, or insurance/claims
Please note: if you don't have all the skills or experience listed above but believe you could be outstanding in this role, please still consider applying. Many people count themselves out. We'd love the chance to learn more about you and why you're exceptional.
Healthy, Catered Lunches - Enjoy fresh, healthy lunches every workday in our Auckland, Christchurch, London, and Austin offices. With no meal prep needed, you can eat, connect, and refuel with your team. (And yes, snacks and drinks are always on hand.)
Healthy Body, Healthy Mind - We care about performing at our peak. Every team member gets a $1,500 annual wellness allowance (or local equivalent) on a Partly-branded card. Use it on things such as gym memberships, rock climbing, physical therapy, massage, doctor visits, prescriptions—anything that you or your family need!
Family Comes First - Primary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid parental leave, plus a flexible return-to-work plan (four days a week at full pay for your first three months back).
Workspaces That Inspire - Our brand-new, architecturally designed offices are built for collaboration and creativity, with great coffee, social spaces, and some of the best cafes just a few steps away.
Getting Here Is On Us - If you commute to a Partly office or coworking space (atleast 4 days a week), choose from a paid 24/7 parking spot or a commuting allowance. One less thing to think about!
Office-First with Flexibility - In cities where we have an office (Christchurch, Auckland, London, and Austin), we default to working from the office every day. This lets us move faster, make better decisions, and build strong relationships. We also operate with a high-trust environment, so you can manage your time around your life and flex your schedule to do your best work.
Time Off - you can use your annual leave and sick leave from day one, no waiting to accrue it first. And if you ever go into a negative balance, that's fine too, we trust you to manage your own time off
We Celebrate Together - From weekly happy hours and monthly lunches to quarterly season openers and an annual global offsite, we make time to connect, celebrate, and have fun as one team.
Giving - We support charitable giving and will top up your donation by 33% for charities on the GiveWell list
Equity - You'll receive share options (ESOP) with a 4-year vesting schedule and a 1-year cliff, true ownership in Partly from day one. Your strike price is a flat $0.01 per share, and you have up to 10 years to exercise.
If you're relocating to Partly HQ, whether from overseas or within the country, we offer a generous relocation allowance to help support your move.
Partly connects buyers and sellers of automotive parts through a B2B platform that serves as an online marketplace. It builds a global data infrastructure for the automotive parts industry, enabling manufacturers and retailers to organize, manage, and distribute parts data. The company uses data science and algorithms to process and standardize parts information from multiple sources, making it easier to find the right parts. Its platform treats data as the backbone of the ecosystem, supporting parts catalogs, data management, and supply chain transparency. Partly operates in New Zealand, Australia, and Europe with a global team and has attracted significant investor funding, helping it grow into a fast-growing startup in its region. The goal is to simplify the process of locating and acquiring automotive parts by improving data quality, interoperability, and connectivity across the parts ecosystem.
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