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Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager

ChipAgents · San Jose · On-site

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About ChipAgents

AI-driven chip design and verification with ChipAgents. Iterate on Your Chip Design & Verification 10x Faster by Collaborating with ChipAgents in Your Favorite Code Editor. Backed by Bessemer.

About the role

We are looking for a Strategic Partnerships Manager to build and own the external relationships that power ChipAgents' growth. This role sits at the intersection of our product, R&D, and go-to-market efforts, translating our platform's needs for compute, data, foundry access, and strategic customer relationships into concrete partnerships with the companies that make our roadmap possible.

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with product, R&D, and go-to-market teams in a fast-moving environment
More about this role

ChipAgents is revolutionizing chip design with agentic-AI workflows and the industry’s first domain specific LLM for chip design, Renoir. Founded by experts in AI and semiconductor design, we partner with top-10 semiconductor companies, hyperscalers, and cutting-edge startups. Our platform accelerates RTL development, functional verification, and formal verification, unlocking new levels of productivity and design quality.

We are looking for a Strategic Partnerships Manager to build and own the external relationships that power ChipAgents' growth. This role sits at the intersection of our product, R&D, and go-to-market efforts, translating our platform's needs for compute, data, foundry access, and strategic customer relationships into concrete partnerships with the companies that make our roadmap possible. You'll play a central role in building the network of strategic relationships that lets ChipAgents scale as both a product and a category defining platform.

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...

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