Strategic Partnerships Manager Platform Partnerships
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CuspAI is an AI-for-science company developing an AI platform for targeted materials discovery.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Funding history
About CuspAI
CuspAI combines generative AI, high-fidelity simulation, synthesis planning, and laboratory validation to develop novel materials for applications including semiconductors, energy, water purification, and climate technology.
Skills
About the Role
You will develop and manage an R&D partnership ecosystem across EMEA, securing compute, data, laboratory, and academic access for materials discovery. You will negotiate cloud-provider agreements, manage research and publisher relationships, support grant applications, and coordinate with research, legal, finance, and leadership stakeholders.
Requirements
- Experience in strategic partnerships, business development, or technology transfer
- Experience directly managing cloud-provider agreements
- Technical background in materials science, chemistry, physics, mathematics, life sciences, or a related field
- Exposure to AI agents, Model Context Protocol interfaces, or related areas
- Ability to translate scientific goals into commercial proposals
- Ability to build partnership frameworks in an early-stage environment
Responsibilities
- Lead negotiations and manage strategic relationships with compute providers
- Monitor and optimise compute usage agreements against the technical roadmap and budget
- Identify, negotiate, and close partnerships with academic institutions and research labs
- Manage relationships with scientific publishers for data ingestion and collaborative research
- Navigate intellectual-property and technology-transfer complexities
- Identify relevant grant opportunities with the research team
- Lead commercial and partnership aspects of grant applications
- Cultivate relationships with funding bodies and consortium stakeholders
- Align partnership priorities with company milestones
- Partner with AI researchers and chemists to understand data and compute requirements
- Liaise with legal and finance on compliant, scalable partnership agreements
Benefits
- Equity in CuspAI
- 28 days holiday in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, or 21 days holiday in Japan, Singapore, and the US, plus local public holidays
- 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Professional development budget