What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Strategic Partnership Manager position at Wayve?
The role
We’re looking for an experienced Technical Strategic Partnership Manager to lead the development and engagement with all technical partners of Wayve, especially in Silicon and Cloud, working with cross-functional teams to deliver projects with high-level directions.
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure technical partnership support to advance Wayve’s Embodied AI development including both inbound and outbound partnership opportunities, strategic analysis, relationship building and management
- Quick to act on the technical trends and solutions in consideration of the fast-evolving internal technical needs and bring in partnership support
- Build a clear technical partner roadmap with measurable time bound goals that are clearly aligned to internal technical development goals. Ensuring that this is kept up to date and stakeholders are brought into the key stages as necessary
- Educated and engage with internal teams to increase their understanding of the tech partners so that we can optimise the long-term value that tech partnerships can bring to Wayve
- Partner communications are seamless and timely; partners feel up-to-date on status of pilot (and changes) at all times
- Partnership learnings to Wayve continue to evolve and grow at a pace that matches internal bandwidth constraints and bridges those against Wayve strategic needs and partner goals
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Technical Strategic Partnership Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential:
- Resilient in the face of adversity: when things do not go as planned, or if plans change, they maintain optimism and high energy to solve the challenge at hand
- Great communication skills: enables partners and internal teams to understand the end goal, allowing all parties to have enough info to be part of creating solutions
- Humble: views setbacks or incorrect hypothesis as learnings experiences vs failures
- Big-picture minded: understands the (long-term) end goal, and keeps it in mind as a north star in the midst of (near-term) operational execution
- Collaborative: Ability to work across various internal and external cross functional teams and knows when to bring in the right people to help “unstick” blockers
Desirable:
- Direct experience working with external cloud and silicon partners
- Exposure specifically within the AV industry
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale, CA. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.
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