Technical Partnerships Lead

Who You Are

• A mid-career leader, with at least 5 years of professional experience in partnerships, product management, strategy and planning, or account management, excluding internships.
• A technologist, who is equally comfortable discussing best practices with robotics researchers and negotiating timelines and deliverables with purchasing executives.
• A robotics geek who enjoys tracking the latest in VLA research and robot learning approaches, and wants to advance the frontier of physical AI.
• An communicator who will translate client needs into plans and requirements for Instawork, and who will compellingly articulate to partners the services and selling points that make us unique.
• A problem-solver who enjoys building new-to-world systems, taking projects from zero to one, and applying creativity and grit to create value for our robotics partners.

What You'll Do

• Partnership Account Management - Work closely with researchers and business leaders at leading robotics labs to understand and influence their robot training data strategies.
• Technology Strategy - Identify the unique direction of your partners’ research teams, and create and drive the technical requirements that tell IRL what we need to build to exceed their needs.
• Business development - Identify or create new opportunities for IRL to serve partners in robotics and physical AI by attending conferences, meet-ups, and other high-touch bus-dev opportunities.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Coordinate with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure exceptional data and service quality.

For CA Based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is $160k - $240k
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
• A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity