Director of Business Development at Nothing | CA, US | Rezi

Director of Business Development at Nothing

Director of Business Development

Nothing · CA, US

3 weeks ago

Director of Business Development

Nothing · CA, US

a month ago
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About the Role

Nothing is building the next generation of consumer technology, focusing on AI-native devices with a design-led, challenger brand. This role involves owning and originating software supply chain partnerships across AI models, OS and services, cloud infrastructure, and data. You will act as the architect and closer for high-stakes deals with major technology companies, operating hands-on without a pre-existing playbook.

Responsibilities

  • Define Nothing's software supply chain strategy with the executive team.
  • Identify opportunities where partnerships are preferable to building or buying.
  • Originate relationships with AI labs, Google/Android, cloud providers, and data partners.
  • Structure multi-year, platform-level agreements for model access, inference pricing, OS/services, cloud commitments, and data supply/licensing.
  • Negotiate and close deals, personally owning commercial terms end-to-end.
  • Land deals that impact product economics, including inference costs, cloud margins, and services revenue per device.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, and finance teams to integrate partnerships into roadmaps.
  • Operate independently, creating necessary materials and processes without established playbooks or large legal support.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of enterprise/platform business development experience with named, multi-year strategic deals.
  • Direct experience negotiating with at least one of: frontier/major AI labs, Google/Android platform teams, or major silicon vendors (Qualcomm, MediaTek, or similar).
  • Proven outbound origination skills, having created partnerships from scratch, ideally from a challenger or lesser-known company.
  • Demonstrated history of large-scale, C-suite deal-making, with ownership of commercial and legal terms.
  • Current, active focus on the North American market.
  • Deep fluency in the consumer electronics/device landscape, including silicon, OS, AI stack, and their connection to device economics.
  • Experience with deals involving warrant/equity or non-standard commercial structures (strong plus).
  • On-device AI or model-integration deal experience (strong plus).
  • Experience as a 0-to-1 builder, such as a founder, early team member, or someone who built a BD function from scratch (strong plus).
  • Genuine affinity for Nothing's brand and design-led, culture-forward mission (strong plus).

Skills

  • Enterprise business development
  • Platform business development
  • Strategic deal negotiation
  • Outbound origination
  • C-suite deal-making
  • Commercial terms negotiation
  • Legal terms negotiation
  • Consumer electronics landscape
  • Silicon
  • OS
  • AI stack
  • Device economics
  • Warrant/equity deals
  • Non-standard commercial structures
  • On-device AI
  • Model integration

Location

  • North America

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 8+ years

Salary/Compensations

  • $220-300K

About the Company

  • Nothing exists to make tech feel exciting again.
  • We’re building a different kind of technology company, one that puts design, emotion, and human creativity at the heart of everything we do.
  • Founded in London in 2020, we’ve grown from idea to global challenger in just a few years.
  • Backed by GV (Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, and C Ventures, and investors like Tony Fadell (iPod), Casey Neistat, and Kevin Lin (Twitch), we’re now sold in 40+ markets with millions of users worldwide.