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Scale AI

Supplies AI training data and builds AI apps

Head of Strategic Partnerships - Labs

Business Development & PartnershipsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 12 years of revenue-carrying business development, strategic partnerships, or alliances experience at a technology company, with recent experience in AI, machine learning, or cloud platform ecosystems.
  • Existing relationships with partnerships, go-to-market, or leadership teams at frontier AI labs or major foundation model providers.
  • Technical fluency in large language models, model deployment, evaluation, and enterprise AI architecture sufficient to engage effectively with research and engineering teams.
  • A track record of structuring complex technology and commercial partnerships, including co-sell and platform agreements.
  • Experience managing partners that may also be competitors in some areas.
  • Comfort operating in a highly matrixed organization and influencing without direct authority.
  • Entrepreneurial drive, comfort with rapid change, and an analytical, data-driven approach to strategy.
  • Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the strategy for Scale Enterprise's partnerships with frontier AI labs and foundation model providers.
  • Build trusted relationships with go-to-market, partnerships, applied AI, and executive leaders at partner labs.
  • Structure and negotiate partnerships covering joint go-to-market, co-selling, referrals, model access and commercial terms, and technical integrations.
  • Build joint offerings that pair partner models with Scale's applications, evaluation, and data capabilities to speed up enterprise deployments.
  • Set up co-sell motions and rules of engagement with lab enterprise sales teams, including joint account mapping and deal registration.
  • Generate top-of-funnel pipeline through lab partnerships, with accountability against Enterprise revenue targets.
  • Work with Product, Engineering, and Research to get new model capabilities and partner integrations to Scale's Enterprise customers quickly.
  • Track the model landscape and advise leadership on where to partner, where to integrate, and where to differentiate.
  • Work with Scale's broader lab relationships so the company presents a consistent, coordinated partnership strategy.
  • Own post-signature execution, including integration delivery, joint marketing and launches, and regular business reviews.
  • Be measured on partner-sourced and influenced revenue, product and roadmap advantages gained through partnerships, and the strength and breadth of Scale's model partner ecosystem.

About the Company

Scale AI

Supplies AI training data and builds AI apps

Scale AI supplies the data that AI labs use to train and test their models, and it builds custom AI applications for companies and government agencies such as the Pentagon. It first made its name labeling camera and sensor data for self-driving car companies like Waymo, then worked with OpenAI on InstructGPT, the 2022 forerunner of ChatGPT. Freelancers, some of them doctors and lawyers, write, label, and grade examples through its Outlier platform, and labs pay Scale for this data and for tests of model quality. Clients pay Scale to build AI tools on their own data, and some of those tools run on classified military networks. Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo founded Scale AI in 2016, and it is based in San Francisco.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Acquired
Total funding
$1.6B
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2016

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