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Strategic Partner Manager (Ecosystem & Frontier Alliances)

Wordsmith · New York · On-site

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About Wordsmith

Wordsmith is the AI platform built for in-house legal teams. Draft, review, and research contracts faster — with answers your team can trust. Backed by General Catalyst and Index.

About the role

Our product sits on the absolute frontier of AI. We work hand-in-hand with the foundation labs building that frontier - Anthropic and Microsoft. As they double down on ecosystems like Claude for Legal and Microsoft 365, our relationships with their teams directly dictate how fast we ship, how we scale product adoption, and how we win the market.

What they're looking for

  • Essential
  • 4–8+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, or product marketing/management with strong external instincts
  • Highly credible in a product conversation: You don’t need to write code, but you can hold your own with an applied AI team, read a model card, and understand what makes a brilliant native integration
  • Proven track record of managing complex, high-stakes external relationships with cloud, platform, or enterprise tech giants
  • Strong understanding of GTM mechanics: You've shipped joint campaigns and product launches end-to-end, and you care deeply about positioning and messaging, not just getting a logo placement
  • A world-class operator: Highly organised, with the ability to run trackers, close the loop, and handle executive escalations with poise and absolute clarity
More about this role

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast.

We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents, and disconnected systems.

Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens.

We are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with.

More than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling, and Sage, use Wordsmith. Backed by $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe, and others, we are building one of the defining companies in legal AI.

Our product sits on the absolute frontier of AI. We work hand-in-hand with the foundation labs building that frontier - Anthropic and Microsoft. As they double down on ecosystems like Claude for Legal and Microsoft 365, our...

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