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Scale AI

Supplies AI training data and builds AI apps

Head of Strategic Partnerships - Global Systems Integrators

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in revenue-carrying business development, strategic partnerships, partner management, or similar roles at a technology company or payments company, with significant time spent managing GSI or major consultancy relationships from the software vendor side, the GSI side, or both.
  • An existing network across alliance and AI/data practice leadership at major GSIs.
  • A track record of building a GSI program that delivered measurable sourced and influenced revenue.
  • Deep understanding of how GSIs make money, staff engagements, and choose which technologies to build practices around.
  • Experience with enterprise AI, data, or cloud platform partnerships.
  • Experience negotiating complex multi-party commercial agreements.
  • Comfort working in a highly matrixed organization and influencing without direct authority.
  • Entrepreneurial drive, comfort with ambiguity, and an analytical, data-driven approach to managing a partner business.
  • A bachelor's degree is required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the strategy and roadmap for the GSI partnership program, including partner selection, tiering, and investment priorities.
  • Build trusted relationships with alliance leaders, AI practice leads, and C-level executives at top GSIs and consultancies.
  • Structure and negotiate alliance agreements, including resale, referral, co-sell, joint go-to-market, and delivery partnerships, and align cross-functional stakeholders on terms.
  • Build joint account plans with GSI partners for priority Enterprise accounts and drive co-selling with sales teams.
  • Help partners build Scale-certified practices through training, technical enablement, certification, reference architectures, and repeatable delivery playbooks.
  • Co-develop industry-specific solutions and offerings with partners in financial services, healthcare, public sector, and telecom.
  • Design partner incentives, compensation alignment, and rules of engagement so sales teams and GSI partners work toward aligned outcomes.
  • Generate top-of-funnel pipeline through the GSI channel and maintain accountability against Enterprise revenue targets.
  • Bring partner and client feedback to Product and Engineering so GSI delivery needs are reflected in the roadmap.
  • Own post-signature execution, including partner onboarding, delivery quality, joint marketing, and quarterly business reviews.
  • Be measured on GSI-sourced and influenced revenue; the number and quality of certified partner practitioners and joint wins; and the growth and health of the GSI ecosystem.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in revenue-carrying business development, strategic partnerships, partner management, or similar roles with significant time spent managing GSI or major consultancy relationships.
  • An existing network across alliance and AI/data practice leadership at major GSIs.
  • A track record of building a GSI program that delivered measurable sourced and influenced revenue.
  • Deep understanding of how GSIs make money, staff engagements, and choose which technologies to build practices around.
  • Experience with enterprise AI, data, or cloud platform partnerships.
  • Experience negotiating complex multi-party commercial agreements.

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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