# Senior Manager, Product Partnerships at OpenRouter

- Company: OpenRouter
- What the company does: The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts. Backed by a16z and Menlo.
- Company website: https://openrouter.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/c5bbcca4-5591-4152-982b-d43ccbabb863
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openrouter-senior-manager-product-partnerships/

## About the role

As Senior Manager, Product Partnerships, you'll own strategic deals end-to-end—from sourcing and structuring through launch—while driving critical workstreams within our largest, most complex partnerships. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of business development, product, and engineering.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years in partnerships and business development
- Proven track record scaling consumption-based or usage-based partnership models in API platforms, developer tools or infrastructure companies with measurable impact on product adoption and revenue ($10M+ in influenced consumption/revenue)
- Strong commercial and legal acumen with experience negotiating complex agreements involving data governance, SLAs, consumption economics, and technical integration commitments
- Strategic thinker who can balance long-term ecosystem building with short-term execution, comfortable with ambiguity and building from zero to one
- Fluency with APIs, authentication, and developer platforms,
- Comfortable as a hands-on individual contributor working directly with the execs and department leaders on a small, fast moving team

Tags: Go To Market