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Partnerships Lead

Modernintelligence · Austin, TX (On-Site) or Washington, DC (Hybrid) · Hybrid

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About Modernintelligence

Sovereign is autonomy software for drones that runs on the aircraft, sees what. Backed by Air Street.

About the role

We have been founder-led on sales since 2021 and have closed contracts with both primes and vendors. You will be our first dedicated partnerships hire, building relationships with unmanned vehicle manufacturers and owning the partner pipeline from first call to signed deal. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years in sales, partnerships, or business development at a B2B, hardware, defense, dual-use, or deep-tech company
  • You have built your own pipeline through outbound, not only worked inbound leads or accounts you were handed
  • Experience closing licensing agreements with hardware manufacturers, primes, or systems integrators
  • Experience selling into defense, and an understanding of how DoW programs buy
  • Experience pitching a technical product to engineers in defense
  • Experience keeping a CRM up to date and reporting pipeline to the exec team
More about this role

Artificial intelligence is changing war - making decisions in combat quicker and more accurate, while enabling information to be shared more rapidly across both America’s and her adversaries’ militaries. Modern Intelligence builds Sovereign, the first defense-purpose foundation AI for unmanned systems, to be the standard battlefield AI on every Western unmanned system. Today, Sovereign allows drones as varied as unmanned vessels on water to backpack attack quadcopters to see, decide, and act even when jammed. We believe the responsibility of reliably and ethically building lethally autonomous AI is immense to our service members, the American people, and civilians everywhere.

Modern Intelligence has worked with partners across the Department of War including the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and countless unmanned systems hardware companies.

We have raised more than $22M in venture capital from Exponential, Oxford Funds, Bedrock, Vine Ventures, Contrary, Air Street, Caffeinated, Champion Hill, Swell, Myelin, and others.

We have been founder-led on sales since 2021 and have...

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