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Head of Strategic Partnerships & AI Ecosystem

The AI ecosystem is being redrawn in real time. The person who wins this role won't just watch it happen. They'll be the one shaping where Delight.ai sits inside it.

The Company

Sendbird is on a mission to build the AI workforce of tomorrow. For over a decade, we built the infrastructure behind conversations—chat, voice, video, messaging APIs—and became the #1 CPaaS platform for in‑app communications. 4,000+ brands trust us. 7 billion messages flow through our platform every month. 300 million monthly active users. We powered conversations for DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, Yahoo Sports, Rakuten, and thousands of others. We saw early that AI would fundamentally reshape how businesses talk to customers. We chose reinvention and, in December 2024, made the full strategic pivot to AI‑first customer experience. By February 2025, we launched our AI agent for enterprise CX—built on a decade of conversation data, now with intelligence on top. In November 2025 we rebranded to Delight.ai.

The Product

Delight.ai is the AI concierge for customer experience. Most AI agents forget you the moment the conversation ends. Ours doesn’t. Delight.ai builds memory over time, learns preferences, and connects context across every channel—chat, SMS, email, voice, WhatsApp—without losing the thread. We’re building AI that makes customers feel understood, seen, and remembered.

Why Head of Strategic Partnerships & AI Ecosystem

The AI platform wars are being fought at the ecosystem layer. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and AWS are competing to become the default infrastructure for enterprise AI, and the companies that secure the right positions inside those ecosystems now will compound that advantage for years. Delight.ai is already in the race. We need someone to make sure we’re winning it.

The Role

Reporting to the CRO, you will own Delight.ai’s full ISV and hyperscaler ecosystem strategy, from AWS co‑sell execution to GenAI platform alliances with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Build the commercial engine that makes partnerships a measurable, compounding revenue driver. This role is built for someone who moves fast, uses AI to do the work of a full team, and treats every partnership as a distribution play.

You Might Be This Person If

• You reach for AI tools to automate the operational overhead of partnership work: pipeline tracking, enablement, reporting, outreach.
• You think about ecosystem strategy the way an engineer thinks about architecture: modular, scalable, with clear interfaces between components.
• You know the difference between a partner that looks good on a slide and one that actually moves pipeline.
• You can walk into a room with a CTO, a hyperscaler field rep, and a CFO and speak credibly to all three.
• You get restless when processes are manual. If something is done by hand more than twice, you’re already automating it.
• You track the AI ecosystem obsessively, not just the headline players but emerging ones, integration models, and commercial structures that are starting to win.
• You can point to partner‑sourced or partner‑influenced ARR with your fingerprints on it.

You Need To Have

• 10+ years in Strategic Partnerships, Technology Alliances, or Ecosystem Leadership inside SaaS or enterprise technology.
• Deep hands‑on experience with hyperscalers, especially AWS co‑sell programs, and direct relationships with GenAI platform vendors.
• Technical fluency to engage product and engineering leaders, plus commercial acumen to structure and close complex partnership agreements.
• Proven, quantifiable revenue impact through partner‑sourced and partner‑influenced pipeline.
• Experience designing and scaling a global partnerships operating model, including segmentation, tiering, and performance frameworks.

What You’ll Actually Do

• Define and lead ISV ecosystem strategy across AI, CX, commerce, and SaaS. Use AI tools to track ecosystem shifts and translate them into actionable partnership and product strategy for internal leadership.
• Expand our AWS commercial relationship and launch new ones with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other leading GenAI platforms. Identify and secure high‑impact ISV partners that extend product value and unlock new customer segments.
• Build partner segmentation, tiering, and prioritization frameworks. Automate pipeline tracking and reporting so your time goes to strategy, not spreadsheets.
• Build and operationalize repeatable co‑sell motions. Align with Sales on account planning, enterprise pursuits, and vertical strategies. Own partner‑sourced and partner‑influenced pipeline and ARR with clear dashboards to back it up.
• Develop joint value propositions and enablement materials that drive real field adoption. Expand AWS co‑sell engagement with consistent field alignment and opportunity execution.
• Partner with Marketing on joint campaigns, events, content, and marketplace promotions. Drive ecosystem storytelling and strategic announcements that elevate brand visibility and marketplace performance.

What We Offer Includes (but Is Not Limited To)

• 20 days PTO, 13 paid US company holidays, 7 sick days, 1 volunteer day, plus 2 rest/rejuvenation days and birthday day off
• Company subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% for the employee, 80% for dependents)
• Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts, depending on your selected health insurance plan
• Equity program
• 401K program
• Parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• Be Your Best Self: An annual stipend of $3,500 (prorated by start date) for expenses ranging from professional development classes and training, to conferences, gym memberships, wellness retreats, massages, and vacation expenses.

Pay Transparency

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this role is $300,000 - $340,000 OTE in the San Francisco Bay market.

Flexible Work Policy

We offer a flexible work schedule at Sendbird. We require all employees within a 30‑mile commute of their local office to gather with their team in the office a minimum of 3 days per week. Some roles require a more frequent in‑office schedule. Work with your manager to understand the office time requirements for your position.

What Diversity And Inclusion Mean To Us

There is no such thing as a perfect candidate, and the best employees come from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets. Sendbird is a place where everyone can learn and grow. We respect, promote, and encourage diversity for equal employment opportunities, and encourage you to apply if this role excites you.

Why Sendbird

We spent ten years building the infrastructure the world’s best apps run their conversations on. Now we’re moving up the stack into AI, memory, and outcomes that actually matter to customers. Real scale, real data, and a strategic bet that hasn’t been fully priced in yet. If you want to own something that matters, this is the place.