Sr. Partnerships Manager, US Model Labs

<h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>As the Sr. Partnerships Manager for US Model Labs, you will own Together AI's relationships with the most influential model builders in the United States: frontier labs, the AI research organizations inside the hyperscalers and major platform companies, chipmakers with their own model programs, and the well-funded independent labs shaping the open-weights landscape. These are the partners whose releases move the market, and your job is to make sure Together AI is the platform they launch on, build with, and route developers to.</p> <p>This is a portfolio of a small number of very large, very complex accounts. Unlike a broad ecosystem role, success here is measured in depth rather than breadth: multi-threaded relationships across research, product, legal, and business teams; deals that often bundle model distribution with compute, co-marketing, and joint go-to-market; and the trust required to get early access to models before they ship. You will sit at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Finance, and Marketing, and you will frequently be the person in the room representing Together AI to organizations many times our size.</p> <p>You are a strategic deal-maker who is comfortable in long, ambiguous cycles with sophisticated counterparties, and who can turn a single relationship into a durable, expanding partnership.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the US lab portfolio: Build and execute the partnership strategy for a defined set of major US model labs, including account plans, executive engagement, and a clear view of each lab's roadmap and where Together AI fits in it.</li> <li>Land flagship launches: Secure day-zero (or day-one) availability of the most anticipated model releases on the Together platform, coordinating pre-release access, technical bring-up, legal, and launch marketing so we ship alongside the lab.</li> <li>Multi-thread across large organizations: Navigate research teams, p