🌎 Associate Data Partnerships Manager

Job Title: Associate Data Partnerships Manager

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Remote

Compensation: $50–$70/hour and ~$2K per deal closed. Closing 5–10 deals/month is very achievable.

We are looking for a Data Partnerships Manager to identify, engage, and close partnerships with companies that have valuable operational data for AI training and evaluation.

Required Skills

• Negotiation

• Prospecting

• Closing

• Partnerships

What You'll Do

• Find companies that have valuable operational data for AI training.

• Reach out to founders, executives, and business owners through outbound prospecting.

• Book and run discovery calls with potential partners.

• Explain how their data can be used for AI training and evaluation.

• Answer questions about privacy, security, data ownership, and anonymization.

• Negotiate partnership terms and close deals.

• Build and manage your pipeline from first outreach through signed agreement.

• Work with internal teams to onboard partners after closing.

What We're Looking For

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.

• Comfortable speaking with founders, executives, and business owners.

• Confident running discovery calls and explaining value clearly.

• Comfortable with outbound outreach and building new relationships from scratch.

• Able to clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical people.

• Resourceful, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment.

• Motivated by closing deals and performance-based compensation.

Preferred

• 2+ years of experience in Business Development, Partnerships, B2B Sales, or a similar role.

• Proven experience sourcing, negotiating, and closing B2B deals.

• Experience with outbound prospecting and pipeline development.

• Experience in AI, data, SaaS, or technology partnerships.