About the Role
The OpenClaw Foundation is seeking a Technical Partnerships & Program Manager to serve as the technical bridge between the Foundation, its strategic partners, and the broader open-source community. This role focuses on enabling successful technical collaboration across organizations by guiding partners through technical discovery, coordinating initiatives, unblocking engineering efforts, and translating feedback into actionable priorities.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Strategic Partnerships Lead and Executive Director during technical conversations with prospective Foundation members and ecosystem partners.
- Understand partner architectures, AI infrastructure, deployment models, and technical objectives.
- Evaluate technical fit and identify opportunities for collaboration around OpenClaw, interoperability, and emerging standards.
- Represent the Foundation in technical discussions with AI labs, cloud providers, enterprises, research organizations, and developer communities.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic ecosystem partners.
- Help organizations successfully adopt, integrate with, and contribute to the OpenClaw platform.
- Coordinate technical onboarding, architecture reviews, and developer enablement efforts.
- Work alongside partner engineering teams and Foundation maintainers to troubleshoot technical challenges and remove adoption barriers.
- Coordinate cross-functional execution across Engineering, Developer Relations, Product, and community contributors to ensure successful partner initiatives.
- Lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple internal teams and external organizations.
- Develop project plans, coordinate milestones, manage dependencies, and proactively identify technical risks.
- Drive partner-driven initiatives from planning through successful execution.
- Ensure technical collaborations remain aligned, on schedule, and positioned for long-term success.
- Gather technical feedback from partners, contributors, and community members.
- Translate ecosystem needs into clear product requirements and engineering priorities.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to improve APIs, SDKs, developer tooling, documentation, and interoperability.
- Help inform the Foundation's technical roadmap based on real-world adoption and community feedback.
- Support technical working groups focused on interoperability and open standards.
- Facilitate collaboration across Foundation members, AI labs, infrastructure providers, and open-source contributors.
- Help coordinate RFCs, technical proposals, design discussions, and cross-organization initiatives.
- Represent OpenClaw at technical conferences, ecosystem events, and community meetings.
- Enabled successful technical onboarding for strategic Foundation members and ecosystem partners.
- Established scalable processes for managing technical partner engagements and cross-functional initiatives.
- Coordinated multiple successful technical collaborations across AI labs, infrastructure providers, and Foundation members.
- Improved partner adoption through better documentation, developer tooling, and technical enablement.
- Helped shape Foundation priorities by translating ecosystem feedback into actionable engineering initiatives.
- Built trusted relationships across the OpenClaw ecosystem and become a key facilitator of technical collaboration and interoperability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Technical Partnerships, Partner Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Developer Relations Engineering, or a related technical role.
- Experience coordinating complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or organizations.
- Strong understanding of APIs, developer platforms, distributed systems, or AI infrastructure.
- Comfortable engaging deeply with engineering teams and discussing technical architecture, integrations, and system design.
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to drive execution across diverse stakeholders.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organizational skills and a bias toward execution in fast-moving environments.
- Willingness to travel periodically for partner meetings, conferences, and Foundation events.
- Experience working in open-source software or developer ecosystems.
- Experience with AI infrastructure, agent frameworks, or developer platforms.
- Experience at a technology foundation, standards body, or consortium.
- Familiarity with open-source governance and technical community building.
- Experience coordinating cross-company engineering initiatives.
- Existing relationships within AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, or developer communities.
- Passion for open-source AI and the future of agentic systems.
Skills
- Technical Program Management
- Technical Partnerships
- Partner Engineering
- Solutions Architecture
- Developer Relations Engineering
- APIs
- Developer platforms
- Distributed systems
- AI infrastructure
- Project management
- Communication
- Organization
- Open-source software
- Agent frameworks
- Technical community building
- Cross-company engineering initiatives
- AI
- Agentic systems
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
About the Company
- The OpenClaw Foundation is the steward of the world's largest open source AI agent project.
- Its mission is grounded in a foundational conviction: that AI must be open, safe, and ultimately owned by the individuals and communities who use it.
- The Foundation operates across three core mandates: Advancing research into the human-agent relationship while continuously evolving the OpenClaw platform; Maintaining and hardening the codebase to ensure security, reliability, and long-term sustainability; Establishing interoperability standards for the emerging agent era, defining how agents configure, communicate, establish trust, transact, and represent user identity across ecosystems.
- Modeled after the governance structures that shaped the open web and modern computing infrastructure, the Foundation serves as a neutral, multi-stakeholder convening body — the equivalent of W3C or the Linux Foundation for the agentic AI era.
- Major laboratories and infrastructure providers collaborate under its umbrella on shared, vendor-neutral infrastructure, with no single organization controlling the roadmap or direction.
- The OpenClaw Foundation believes that individuals should have full sovereignty over their AI: their data, their interactions, and the behavior and personality of their agents.
- Open source is not incidental to this mission but central to it — code must remain free to use, modify, and build upon.
- The future of agentic AI will be defined by a broad, developer-driven community, not prescribed by any single commercial interest.
