Director of OEM & Strategic Partnerships, Waabi
$250-300k
+ Equity + annual performance bonus
AI-powered self-driving technology
Open for applications
AI-powered self-driving technology
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$250-300k
+ Equity + annual performance bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring commercially viable self-driving technology to society.
Role
Who you are
- MS/MBA or Bachelors degree in management, technical, or engineering field with a minimum 10+ years of work experience in business development or strategic partnerships or a similar partner-facing role in the automotive or relevant fields
- Automotive experiences and expertise leading and/or partnering with OEM’s - bringing new products to market
- Solid understanding of business processes and best practices in product strategy and positioning
- Experience developing new product strategy and the ability to manage multiple products from end to end
- Proven track record of developing strategic partnerships and negotiating agreement terms from initial discussions and relationship management through agreement closing and partner management
- Excellent verbal and writing skills by setting the right level of context to internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to communicate directly with senior executives while in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Strong interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate, influence, build trust and develop meaningful relationships with internal and partner contacts
- Experience with financial models, negotiations, and creating strategic partnerships
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to break-down complex technical, contractual and financial issues
- Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, building partnerships, and driving results
What the job involves
- Develop and execute a detailed automotive and partnership strategy aligned with Waabi’s goals
- Be a key business interface between Waabi and OEM partners and drive negotiations
- Work cross-functionally with Waabi’s engineering, product, finance, and legal teams to negotiate new deals and execute upon existing contracts
- Build, manage and evolve strong partnerships to support Waabi’s business objectives
- Structure and negotiate partnership agreements with win-win incentives and balanced terms
- Evaluate and maintain partner engagement by building trusted relationships with partners and developing a thorough understanding of their priorities and challenges
- Convey business & product requirements in collaboration with technical stakeholders, taking into consideration Waabi’s overall strategy and objectives
Our take
Autonomous vehicle technology is rapidly developing and many sectors are recognizing its value. However, whilst the self-driving industry has made significant advancements there is much more that can be done. There are challenges in this space surrounding scale and developing commercially viable self-driving technology.
Waabi hopes to tackle these challenges and be the leader in self-driving technology with their "AI first approach". The company said that combined with a closed-loop simulator, this approach will allow both common driving scenarios and safety-critical edge cases to be tested at scale - solving one of the key issues in the industry.
Waabi has a growing partnership with Volvo too, with is a major boost for its future. The two companies have co-developed a new Volvo VNL Autonomous truck that pairs VOlvo's purpose-built autonomy platform with Waabi's end-to-end AI driving system, sensors, and compute. Volvo has also backed Waabi financially through its venture arm, giving Waabi both manufacturing support and long-term investment. Toget, erhjtis puts Waabi in a position to scale and move towards fully driverless trucking quicker.
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Insights
81% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2024
$200m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$72m
SERIES A
Total funding: $272m
Leadership
Raquel Urtasun
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Uber as Chief Scientist, Head of Uber ATG R&D. Is also a professor at the University of Toronto.
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