Partnerships Manager (RAISE and MACHINA) HF

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Today were recruiting an Partnerships Manager for our client Chain of Events the company behind the events where the people shaping technology actually meet based in Paris.

Start date : ASAP

• Signal Week the institutional summit for digital assets. Founded in 2019 as Paris Blockchain Week and elevated to Signal Week in 2026 it draws 10000 attendees from 100 countries roughly 70% of them C-suite. Its last edition convened 250 banks and financial institutions over $50T in assets under management and 70 government officials and regulators BlackRock J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank Fidelity BNY Mellon Citi the London Stock Exchange ESMA and the European Commission among them. The thesis: TradFi and digital assets are no longer two industries but one financial system being rebuilt on shared rails.

• RAISE Summit the AI summit for decision-makers. Launched in 2024 it has grown from 2000 to 9000 attendees across three editions (80% C-level from 76 countries) with 350 speakers spanning AI infrastructure enterprise adoption agentic systems sovereignty and policy. The 2026 edition at the Carrousel du Louvre featured Mark Cuban Yann LeCun and Nelson Griggs (Nasdaq) plus the Versailles AI Gala the RAISE Hackathon and RAISE the STAKES (1100 startup applications in 2026).

• MACHINA Summit Europes leading event dedicated to Physical AI: intelligence that acts on the real world through humanoids industrial robotics autonomous systems and next-generation humanmachine interfaces. Its inaugural 2026 edition brought together the labs building humanoids and the enterprises deploying robotics at scale with speakers from Google DeepMind Boston Dynamics NVIDIA 1X Apptronik and Agility Robotics. Its the fastest-moving brand in the portfolio with the most white space ahead of it.

You own the partnership portfolio for two of the three events RAISE and MACHINA from strategy to signature to on-site delivery.

The objective is singular: bring enterprise buyers and senior executives from large corporations into the room.

Partnerships are how we convene them through the organisations that already hold those relationships: industry associations corporate innovation and transformation programmes consultancies and integrators executive and peer networks public bodies running international delegations. Media and investor partnerships matter but they serve that same objective rather than being the objective.

RAISE and MACHINA dont share an ecosystem: the organisations that convene a CIO arent the ones that convene a VP of Manufacturing. You build and own both. This is a single scope not two half-jobs and its not an inbox-management role. Youre accountable for who the partnership portfolio actually puts in the room.

Concretely youll:

• Build the partnership map. For each event work backwards from the audience we need in the room to the organisations that can bring them. Size the target list prioritise it own it.

• Prospect pitch and close. Full cycle from cold outreach to signed contract with heads of innovation alliance directors association leadership cluster managers and institutional counterparts. Most of these deals are barter or hybrid rather than cash which makes them harder to construct not easier.

• Turn signed partnerships into qualified attendance. A logo on a website isnt the outcome. You build and run the activation plan for every partner and the measure is the seniority and company profile of the people they actually bring.

• Build MACHINAs ecosystem from near-zero. RAISE has three editions of partner history; MACHINA has one. You decide what the robotics and industrial ecosystem around it looks like.

• Deliver on site. Partner onboarding briefing activation coordination delegation handling and presence across the week in July. Youre the point of contact when a partner has a problem at 8am on day one.

• Own the numbers. Pipeline conversion attendance sourced per partner renewal rate. You maintain them and you present them.

• A portfolio you genuinely own with a measurable contribution to the audience and the P&L not a support function.

• MACHINA is close to a founding role: you shape an ecosystem rather than maintain one.

• Direct access to the leadership team and through Hyve to an international events platform and its partner networks.

• A network that stays yours: the institutions media and investors you convene are relationships you build in your own name.

Youll work with direct access to the leadership team and plug into Hyves international events platform and partner networks. à compléter : composition de léquipe rattachement fonctionnement

• 35 years in partnerships or business development inside an international tech or B2B event in a role where you were accountable for bringing an audience not for servicing accounts someone else signed.

• Experience with the kinds of partners that convene corporate audiences: associations consultancies and integrators corporate innovation programmes public bodies delegation programmes.

• Comfortable opening a conversation cold with a senior stakeholder inside a large corporation an industry association or an industrial group and being taken seriously.

• A feel for what a senior executive is actually buying when they give you two days of their calendar.

• Able to construct a barter deal: understanding what you have to trade what its worth to the other side and where the line is.

• Genuine curiosity about AI and robotics. You dont need to be technical you do need to build credibility fast in two ecosystems you may not know today.

• Organised enough to run 100 live partner relationships across two events without anything falling through.

• Fluent English; French is a strong advantage. Additional European languages are a plus given the international delegation work.

• Willing to work in an events cycle: long build-up phases then a week in July that demands everything.

Contract type: Full time permanent contract

Financial benefits:

• 100% Navigo meal vouchers (12.79/day 8 employer-covered) mutuelle 65%

• Wellpass team-building

• A diverse multicultural team and real visible impact on the work

Offices: Paris (17th) Remote : 1d/week

Other perks: a diverse multicultural team and real visible impact on the work

• Screening Interview (30 min): first conversation about your background and motivations.

• Hiring Manager Interview (30 min): deep-dive with the hiring manager on the role and your experience.

• Use Case (6090 min): a practical exercise presented and discussed with the team.

• CEO HR Call (15-30min)