Business Development Lead, AI & LLM Partnerships
Business Development Lead, AI & LLM Partnerships
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Who is Sonar
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production amplifies developers productivity in concert with AI assistants and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code regardless of who writes it your internal team genAI or third parties resulting in more secure reliable and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community Sonars solutions support over 30 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide including the DoD Microsoft NASA MasterCard Siemens and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company users each other and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity dedication thoughtfulness empathy and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar CODE is more than just an acronym its a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar were a group of brilliant motivated and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its developer-written AI-generated or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA Switzerland the UK Singapore and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day work on a product they are proud of love what they do and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
We are seeking a highly strategic and experienced Business Development professional to join Sonar as the Business Development Lead AI & LLM Partnerships. Reporting directly to the Chief Growth Officer you will spearhead Sonars efforts in this critical domain building deep impactful relationships and forging partnerships with leading Foundation Model / Large Language Model (LLM) developers (e.g. OpenAI Anthropic Google DeepMind Meta Cohere Mistral). Your primary goal will be to establish collaborations that build on cutting-edge AI model development and Sonars unique IP to create innovative solutions for developers. This involves defining partnership structures negotiating licensing and collaboration agreements and developing joint go-to-market plans.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Strategy Development & Execution: Drive the execution of Sonars partnership strategy specifically with LLM providers and the broader Generative AI ecosystem aligning closely with overall company growth objectives.
- Opportunity Identification & Analysis: Identify evaluate and prioritize strategic partnership opportunities. Conduct in-depth market analysis of the LLM landscape tracking model releases capabilities and evolving partnership models.
- Relationship Building & Management: Build nurture and manage strong long-term relationships with key technical product and business leaders at major LLM development companies and influential organizations in the AI space.
- Deal Negotiation & Execution: Lead the end-to-end partnership lifecycle with LLM providers: define engagement models negotiate complex agreements focused on licensing model training co-development of solutions and drive deals to closure.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal Sonar teams (Product Management Engineering Research Legal Marketing Sales Finance) to align on LLM partnership priorities define technical requirements develop joint solutions ensure legal compliance and advocate effectively for partners.
- Partnership Success & Growth: Track measure and report on the performance and impact of LLM partnerships to senior leadership including the CGO and CEO. Manage relationships post-deal to ensure mutual success identify new collaboration opportunities and optimize ongoing engagements as the LLM landscape evolves.
The Experience You Will Need:
- MBA or advanced technical degree (e.g. MSCS MSEE) with a focus on AI/ML.
- Direct hands-on experience negotiating partnerships specifically with or for major AI Foundation Model / LLM providers.
- Experience with data licensing IP licensing technology collaboration in the AI space.
- Deep understanding of the AI landscape with specific in-depth knowledge of Foundation Models / Large Language Models (LLMs): key providers (OpenAI Anthropic Google DeepMind etc.) model capabilities & limitations common APIs typical partnership structures and legal considerations.
- Experience working in a high-growth or start-up environment focused on AI/ML.
- Established network within the AI / LLM developer community.10 years of experience in business development strategic alliances technology partnerships or related fields preferably within the AI/ML and data science domains.
- Proven track record of successfully defining negotiating closing and managing high-impact technology-centric partnerships ideally including experience working directly with AI/ML platform or model providers.
- Strong foundational knowledge of the software development lifecycle and ecosystem.
- Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with partners at both a deep technical level (understanding model architectures APIs integration challenges) and a strategic business level.
- Experience leading complex deal negotiations including interpreting legal documents and working collaboratively with legal counsel on terms related to IP data usage liability and service levels particularly in the context of AI/ML services.
- Proven experience leading or significantly contributing to cross-functional teams to orchestrate and execute complex partnerships. Strong experience working directly with Product Management and Engineering/Research teams.
- Exceptional communication presentation negotiation and relationship-building skills with experience influencing stakeholders at various levels including senior executives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to thrive lead initiatives and execute in a fast-paced rapidly evolving and often ambiguous technological landscape.
- Bachelors degree preferably in a technical field like Data Science or Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Why You Will Love It Here:
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai India Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and were happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package that is 90% paid by the company.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations.
- We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match fully vested on day one of participation.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus paid annually.
- Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin Texas.
- Global workforce with employees in 20 countries representing 35 unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
We Value Diversity Equity and Inclusion:
At Sonar we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds perspectives and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
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