Member of Partnership Staff

Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. Runway has been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Runway’s mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories. We believe that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity, and design tools.

Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world –  AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.

About the role

We are looking for a highly motivated senior IC who will work closely with current and future partners to build out the next iteration of Runway’s journey. Runway’s partners and customers include Fortune 100 companies, some of the largest Hollywood studios, award-winning advertising and marketing agencies, leading technology companies, and many others.

This role reports to the Head of Ops & Partnerships and works alongside various teams at Runway including the Executive team, GTM, product, legal, and finance.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain strong relationships with partners, ensuring long-term alignment and collaboration
• Identify and evaluate potential strategic partner opportunities and business relationships
• Collaborate with GTM, product, research, legal, and finance teams to ensure successful implementation and close of deals
• Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to the company’s strategic roadmap
• Represent the company with external stakeholders, including prospective customers, partners, and vendors

What you’ll need

• 5+ years of overall experience in a partnerships, strategic, or GTM role, with experience in a high-growth technology company preferred
• A proven track record of designing and also executing complex deal strategies, inclusive of legal, product/technical requirements, and pricing
• Experience gathering, distilling, and processing complex market (industry, competitor, customer, prospect) intelligence
• A strong bias towards action and belief that no task is too small for you
• High technical aptitude for understanding complex technologies, tools, systems, and issues
• Superior communication abilities, with proven experience in cross-functional collaboration and consensus building, especially with technical, business, and legal teams
• Mindset to think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks
• Highly resourceful with the ability to create structure and work autonomously amidst ambiguity
• New York-based preferred

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $140,000 to $200,000

Working at Runway

Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

More about Runway

• Runway Research
• Runway's AI Film Festival
• Creative Dialogues Series
• Runway Studios
• Our Behaviors and Company Mission
• We raised a $141 million extension to our Series C

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