Principal Ecosystem Partner Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Location: San Jose, California, United States; in-person presence five days a week. Regular travel to partner sites, customer meetings, and industry events is required, up to approximately 25%.

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year, depending on experience, level, and business need. Discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits may be available.

Company

hirify.global provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through connectivity solutions and its Intelligent Connectivity Platform, integrating CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, UALink, and COSMOS software.

What you will do

• Own strategic relationships with CPU platform providers, ODMs, OEMs, and system integrators, including executive syncs, roadmap exchanges, and joint business planning.
• Align technology roadmaps and place hirify.global products in partner reference designs and emerging server and AI platforms.
• Coordinate interoperability and joint validation programs from early silicon through production.
• Develop joint reference architectures and rack-scale solutions for AI workloads, including agentic inference.
• Lead partner solutions marketing, co-marketing programs, launch content, events, demos, case studies, and partner enablement.
• Negotiate partner agreements, gather ecosystem insights, influence product strategy, and report design-win progress to leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field; an MBA is preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in product-focused, customer-facing, or partner-facing roles in semiconductors or data center infrastructure.
• Understanding of PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, and/or UALink, as well as server and CPU platform architectures for AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Established network across CPU, server platform, ODM, OEM, and system integrator ecosystems.
• Experience running multi-workstream partner programs, negotiating agreements, and collaborating across product, engineering, sales, FAE, and marketing teams.
• Strong strategic, analytical, communication, presentation, and consensus-building skills.

Culture & Benefits

• High-visibility role with regular interaction with executive leadership and ecosystem partners.
• Opportunity to represent the company at industry events, partner forums, conferences, and press or analyst engagements.
• Discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits may be available.
• Inclusive environment encouraging applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.