- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- USA
- Job type
- Commercial Operations
- Posted
- Sep 9, 2026
Full-time
Partnerships Associate
Job description
We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity. This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world.
The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA. Our team of researchers, roboticists, and company builders come from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs—with a track record of shipping AI breakthroughs.
At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world and make it useful to everyone.
Job responsibilities
- Partner relationships: Serve as a high-energy point of contact for prospective partners, communicating Generalist’s technology and vision clearly, building strong relationships, and identifying opportunities for…
- Technical fluency: Become a super user of Generalist’s models and technology, developing the technical fluency to explain complex concepts clearly, demonstrate capabilities, identify compelling use cases, and help…
- Partnership qualification & development: Evaluate partnership opportunities, quickly understand partner needs and potential value, prioritize the strongest opportunities, and move promising relationships toward…
- Project management: Own partner initiatives end-to-end, translating conversations into clear workplans, owners, milestones, and timelines and keeping internal and external stakeholders moving toward outcomes.
- Communication & organization: Bring exceptional organization and written and verbal communication to a high volume of parallel partner workstreams;
- Cross-functional coordination: Work closely with ML/engineering, product, GTM, and leadership to coordinate partner needs, surface decisions, minimize internal overhead, and ensure strong follow-through.
- Travel & ecosystem engagement: Represent Generalist with partners and at relevant industry events and conferences as needed.
Job requirements
- 2–5 years of professional experience in a highly demanding, high-ownership environment, such as a technology company, startup, management consulting, or similar, with a track record of delivering high-quality work on…
- Proven ability to own and drive multiple cross-functional initiatives simultaneously, create clarity from ambiguity, and execute end-to-end with minimal oversight.
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills; able to manage a high volume of parallel conversations and workstreams without losing track of details, owners, timelines, or follow-up.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to understand complex technical concepts and explain them clearly and compellingly to different audiences.
- Strong technical curiosity and demonstrated ability to quickly develop fluency in complex products or technologies.
- High energy, responsiveness, and strong interpersonal skills; genuinely enjoys meeting new people, building relationships, and representing technology enthusiastically with external partners.
- Strong judgment and ability to quickly assess opportunities, prioritize where to invest time, and drive conversations toward clear next steps.
- High integrity, reliability, and consistent follow-through.