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Head of Academic Partners & Programs, Fauna Robotics

Amazon · New York, New York, USA · On-site

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Fauna Robotics is building the future of personal robotics — and we want it to be the best platform for researchers and developers to build on. We’re looking for a leader to build and scale our academic segment: the programs, partnerships, and mechanisms that put Fauna robots into the hands of the world’s top robotics researchers and turn them into a thriving, self-reinforcing community.

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Fauna Robotics is building the future of personal robotics — and we want it to be the best platform for researchers and developers to build on. We’re looking for a leader to build and scale our academic segment: the programs, partnerships, and mechanisms that put Fauna robots into the hands of the world’s top robotics researchers and turn them into a thriving, self-reinforcing community.

You'll own the strategy, the relationships, and the sales channel end-to-end — from a researcher's first pilot to institution-wide adoption. You will own how labs evaluate, acquire, and expand their Fauna fleets. You'll design the grant and phased-access programs that put robots in researchers' hands, and run the pilots that prove them out. You'll represent Fauna where researchers gather — ICRA, RSS, CoRL, IROS, HRI — and cultivate a community of people building on our platform.

You will be Fauna’s primary point of engagement with the robotics research community. You’ll own the strategy and the relationships end-to-end — from qualifying a priority lab to scaling adoption across an entire institution. You’ll design the grant and phased-access programs that put robots in researchers’ hands, and run...

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