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Partnerships Lead

Generalist AI· Applied & Partnerships
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Boston (Somerville)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Partnerships Lead at Generalist responsible for owning strategic partner relationships, developing collaborations, and driving cross-functional programs to advance Generalist’s AI/robotics platform.

Responsibilities

  • Partner ownership: Own and deepen relationships with a small number of Generalist’s most important partners, building trusted relationships across technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
  • Partnership development: Evaluate partnership opportunities for both new and current partners, including understanding priorities, identifying opportunities for collaboration, and translating into concrete next steps.
  • Technical fluency: Become a super user of Generalist’s models and technology, developing the technical depth to explain complex concepts clearly, engage credibly with partner teams, identify compelling applications, and help partners get the most out of our technology.
  • Program leadership: Drive complex partner initiatives end-to-end, aligning stakeholders across organizations, defining workplans and milestones, resolving blockers, and maintaining momentum across multiple workstreams.
  • Executive communication: Communicate clearly and credibly with senior internal and external stakeholders, synthesizing technical and business topics into crisp updates, recommendations, decisions, and next steps.
  • Cross-functional coordination: Work closely with ML/engineering, product, Partnerships, and leadership to represent partner needs internally, coordinate decisions, and translate external learnings into product, model, and company action.
  • Travel: Represent Generalist with partners and at relevant industry events and conferences as needed.

Qualifications

  • 5–7 years of professional experience in partnerships, business development, product/program leadership, strategy & operations, technology, or another high-ownership environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently own important external relationships and complex cross-functional initiatives with minimal oversight.
  • Exceptional organizational and project management skills; able to manage multiple high-stakes workstreams, stakeholders, decisions, and timelines simultaneously.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to understand complex technical concepts and explain them clearly and compellingly to different audiences.
  • Strong technical curiosity and demonstrated ability to quickly develop fluency in complex products or technologies.
  • Strong judgment and ability to understand partner needs, identify the highest-value opportunities, navigate ambiguity, and make thoughtful recommendations.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and executive presence; able to build trust with stakeholders across different levels and functions within large organizations.
  • High ownership, integrity, responsiveness, reliability, and consistent follow-through.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-changing environment where priorities, processes, and responsibilities may sometimes be ambiguous and evolve quickly.
Last updated Sep 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Generalist is a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.

Generalist AI: a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.

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