Head of Partnerships (AI)

Location: Based in or willing to relocate to Almaty, or fully remote from Spain, the UK or Ireland with the right to work there. Regular international travel to partners, Almaty and San Francisco is required, with sufficient overlap with the Growth team's working hours.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered video creation and next-generation creative tools, serving millions of users and hundreds of Fortune 500 brands.

What you will do

• Define the partner strategy, roadmap, targets, tiers, commercial terms, revenue-share and referral models.
• Source, structure, negotiate and close strategic distribution, platform, agency, reseller, integration and technology partnerships.
• Run partnerships after signature through joint business plans, reviews, pipeline sharing, escalations and renewals.
• Build partner-sourced pipeline forecasting, attribution, references and launch stories.
• Collaborate with regional GTM, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal and Finance teams on integrations, APIs, launches, terms and billing.
• Define and build the partnerships organization, hiring and leading the team as the function scales.

Requirements

• 10+ years in partnerships, business development, alliances or enterprise GTM, including 5+ years structuring and closing strategic partnerships at a SaaS, AI, creative technology, marketing technology, platform or media company.
• Demonstrated partnerships that produced measurable revenue or distribution, with the ability to explain the results.
• Experience with distribution and platform, channel and reseller, integration and technology, and agency or enterprise alliances.
• Strong judgment in revenue-share, referral, bundling, co-sell and licensing models, including term-sheet and legal work.
• Senior relationships with global agency networks, large consumer platforms, cloud or hardware providers, creative software, or major media and entertainment groups.
• Ability to operate as the whole function before building a team, without partner operations, partner marketing or an existing team on day one.
• Experience working across regions and time zones with distributed commercial teams; fluent English required.
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, Almaty; or based in Spain, the UK or Ireland with the right to work there and able to travel internationally.
• Genuine enthusiasm for generative AI and hands-on fluency with Higgsfield or comparable creative AI tools.

Nice to have

• Experience at an AI-native company, creator platform, or usage-based or API-based business.
• Experience building a partnerships function from zero and leading a team.
• Relationships with model providers, cloud and GPU partners, or creative-tool ecosystems.
• A second major European or Asian language.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote working model for hires based in Spain, the UK or Ireland, with regular travel for partner and company sessions.
• Relocation support for candidates moving from another city or country.
• Competitive base salary in USD, determined by experience, skills and role scope.
• Equity participation through the stock option program.
• Collaborative, fast-paced environment with direct access to experienced leaders, professional growth and ownership opportunities.

Hiring process

• The role requires building a partner strategy and program, signing and launching 3–5 strategic partnerships in the first year, and onboarding the first partnerships hire.