Deal Lead, Special Situtations (AI)

TL;DR

Deal Lead, Special Situations (AI): Originating and executing new vertical bets across financial services, life sciences, semiconductors, and energy. Focus on identifying high-value opportunities and translating industry pain points into concrete AI-driven commercial theses.

Location: Must be located in San Francisco

Salary: $330K – $420K + Offers Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Identify and size high-value opportunities across financial services, life sciences, semiconductors, and energy, translating industry pain points into concrete AI-driven commercial theses.
• Map the partnership and competitive landscape within your vertical and design differentiated strategies that hirify.global can win and scale.
• Partner with FDEs and applied researchers to design multi-project programs that combine models, tooling, data, and services into outcomes customers will pay for.
• Define use cases, scope, sequencing, and success metrics that turn ambiguous opportunities into executable programs.
• Structure and negotiate non-standard partnerships, including revenue share, royalties, and bespoke commercial terms, through contract signature.
• Drive executive-level alignment and decision-making on trade-offs, resourcing, and risk.

Requirements

• Have 15+ years in business development, partnerships, corporate development or founding roles where you personally drove and closed complex, high-dollar deals from concept through delivery.
• Have deep domain experience in financial services, life sciences, semiconductors, or energy, including an understanding of how large enterprises in those sectors buy, partner, and deploy technology.
• Can take a vague opportunity and turn it into a clear commercial thesis that customers, executives, and technical teams can buy into and commit budget against.
• Excel at building and closing non-standard deals that combine product, services, and long-term strategic value rather than off-the-shelf SKUs.
• Know how to navigate large, sophisticated buyers, align multiple stakeholders, and keep deals moving when no one has full authority or clarity.
• Strengthen decisions by framing commercial and technical trade-offs early so partners and hirify.global leadership can commit with confidence.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• Believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges.