New AI and ISV Partner Business Development Manager
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Responsibilities
- Own and build Nebius' ISV partner ecosystem from the ground up with your key target accounts - defining strategy, segmentation, onboarding models, and long-term growth frameworks
- Identify, recruit, and close high-impact AI and ISV partners that can drive net-new customer acquisition and revenue growth
- Develop and scale repeatable co-sell motions, embedding partners into Nebius' core sales plays and strategic opportunities
- Drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline, with a strong focus on net-new accounts and expansion
- Build structured frameworks for joint business planning, pipeline generation, forecasting, and performance management
- Lead joint go-to-market execution, ensuring partners are actively generating demand and influencing deals
- Drive partner technical readiness and platform adoption through onboarding, enablement, and joint solution development
- Act as a key architect of Nebius' partner program, including co-sell models, incentives, and engagement frameworks
- Stay deeply connected to the AI ecosystem, identifying emerging players, trends, and high-leverage partnership opportunities
- Represent Nebius across industry events, ecosystem forums, and strategic partner engagements
- Serve as the voice of partners internally, working cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, and GTM teams
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, or indirect sales within B2B technology
- Strong understanding of the AI/ML and cloud ecosystem (infrastructure, models, data pipelines, ISVs, tooling
- Proven track record of building partner ecosystems from early stages - not just managing existing relationships
- Demonstrated ability to source, negotiate, and close strategic partnerships that drive measurable business impact
- Proven success in driving net-new pipeline, opening new accounts, and scaling revenue through repeatable co-sell programs
- Experience leading co-sell and joint go-to-market motions with sales organizations
- Solid grasp of cloud platforms and consumption-based business models
- Technical fluency - able to engage in architecture discussions, use-case validation, and product alignment
- Builder mindset - comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating structure from scratch
- Strong executive presence with experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and prioritization skills
- Experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence partner integrations and roadmap
- Background in AI-intensive industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Robotics, Retail, or Automotive
- What Makes This Role Different
- You are building the ecosystem - not inheriting one
- Direct ownership of partner-driven revenue and growth
- High autonomy and visibility across the business
- Opportunity to shape how modern AI partnerships are defined and executed at Nebius
- Key employee benefits in the US:
- Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
- Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
- Disability & life insurance : Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage.
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Additional Information
About Nebius: Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure. Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI. Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D. The role: New AI and ISV Partner Business Development Manager We're building Nebius' next-generation partner ecosystem - and this role is at the center of it. This is not a traditional partner management role. We are not looking for account managers or program operators. We are looking for a builder - someone who can identify, recruit, and activate high-impact partners that drive real business outcomes. You will define and scale Nebius' ISV and AI partner ecosystem from the ground up, creating partnerships that generate net-new pipeline, open new accounts, and scale through repeatable co-sell motions.
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