Senior Partnerships Manager

What if the future of visual AI isn't just about better models—but about reimagining how they reach the world?

Our founding team pioneered Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion - breakthroughs that made generative AI accessible to millions. Today our FLUX models power creative tools, design workflows, and products across industries worldwide. Our FLUX models are best-in-class not only for their capability, but for ease of use in developing production applications. We top public benchmarks and compete at the frontier - and in most instances we're winning. If you're relentlessly curious and driven by high agency, we want to talk. With a team of ~50, we move fast and punch above our weight. From our labs in Freiburg - a university town in the Black Forest - and San Francisco, we're building what comes next.

This isn't a "close deals and hit quotas" role. You'll be architecting the commercial layer of a technology that's still being invented. What does pricing look like when your product gets exponentially better every quarter? How do you structure partnerships when your API serves both scrappy startups and global enterprises? What distribution channels don't exist yet—but should?

You'll work directly with our technical team to translate research breakthroughs into market opportunities, often before the market knows it needs them. One week you might be negotiating custom enterprise agreements; the next, designing pricing models for capabilities we just shipped.

Your responsibilities:

• Drive business growth through strategic partnerships and custom deal development, from initial outreach through close
• Develop pricing strategies for capabilities that may not have existed six months ago
• Collaborate with Research, Engineering, Finance, and Legal to lead complex product, data, and distribution deals
• Identify and forge new distribution and monetization channels the market hasn't imagined yet
• Translate technical capabilities into commercial opportunities, working directly with engineers to understand product requirements and limitations
• Structure partnership models that serve both API users and enterprises running models on-premise

You have deep technical fluency. Either you've worked in image/video generation (at companies building diffusion models, creative tools, or visual AI products) or you come from a technical background—solutions architect, engineer, technical product manager. You can discuss model architectures, inference optimization, and training pipelines with our research team, then translate those capabilities into commercial value propositions.

You've done serious business development in technical domains where you had to learn fast and think structurally. You understand SaaS business models, API pricing, and enterprise licensing. You're comfortable with ambiguity—when a partner asks "Can your model do X?" and X is something we could build but haven't yet, you know how to navigate that conversation honestly.

You care about craft. You want to work with a small, technically exceptional team that's building in public and pushing boundaries. You have strong opinions about how this market should evolve, and you're ready to shape it.

Required:

• Technical foundation: Either prior experience in image/video generation companies OR a technical background (engineering, solutions architecture, technical product roles)
• Proven track record in BD/partnerships in AI, cloud, or technical infrastructure
• Deep understanding of SaaS business models, API pricing, cloud consulting, and enterprise licensing
• Ability to hold technical conversations with engineers and translate them into commercial strategy
• Strong relationship-building with track record of maintaining long-term partnerships
• Analytical rigor and market research capabilities

Nice to have:

• Experience with diffusion models for image/video generation
• Early-stage, high-growth startup experience
• B2B API and model weight licensing sales models
• Open-source business model experience

If you're relentlessly curious and driven by high agency, we want to talk.

Base salary for SF based role : $160K to $225K