Director, Strategic Partnerships – New Ventures

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About the role

  • Strategic partnerships director creating enterprise deals and new ventures for Serve Robotics’ sidewalk delivery platform. Structuring pilots, funding, and scalable commercial agreements.

Responsibilities

  • Originate, structure, and close major partnerships and new ventures opening new verticals, business models, and routes to market for Serve and its subsidiaries
  • Translate Serve's robotics, fleet, operating infrastructure, data, autonomy capabilities, and technology into new revenue, partner-funded development, and strategic growth
  • Identify, prioritize, and close whitespace opportunities across enterprise partnerships, robotics, data, and other offerings
  • Build strategic cases that turn undefined needs into fundable propositions and executable internal plans
  • Design and own end-to-end deal structures, aligning incentives, allocating risk, and securing funding, resources, and scaling commitments
  • Craft partnership narratives and presentations for VP- and C-level decision-makers
  • Negotiate and close commercial terms through term sheet and signed agreement
  • Partner with Finance, Legal, Engineering, Product, Operations, and Commercial to validate economics, technical maturity, delivery requirements, dependencies, and resource commitments
  • Serve as a senior proxy for the Chief Strategy Officer in major partner discussions and negotiations within agreed authority
  • Report directly to the Chief Strategy Officer
  • Build a focused portfolio of credible material opportunities and signed commercial agreements within the first 12 months

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant management consulting, business development, strategic partnerships, corporate development, new-venture, or comparable experience
  • Personally selling hard or novel technology and originating, negotiating, and closing complex enterprise agreements
  • Demonstrated ability to create an opportunity from a blank sheet and drive material signed deal outcomes
  • Experience modeling and negotiating multiple deal shapes
  • Exceptional narrative, executive presence, and presentation skills
  • Financial fluency to build, own, and defend a model without analyst support
  • Comfort working in ambiguity at a company still writing its category definition
  • Ability to work well as a remote team member
  • Willingness to travel for partner meetings, conferences, and time on-site
  • Experience securing first-of-the-kind deals in novel or new markets
  • Preferred: Start-up, logistics, last-mile delivery, marketplace, mobility, or robotics experience
  • Preferred: Experience structuring or negotiating joint ventures, co-investments, white label arrangements, or data licensing agreements
  • Preferred: Experience building a new business or partnerships motion at an early- or growth-stage company
  • Preferred: Moving from an initial experiment to a funded commercial offering

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Remote work
  • Willingness to travel for partner meetings, conferences, and time on-site

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$220,000 - $250,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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