About the Role
Architect the commercial layer of a technology that's still being invented, translating research breakthroughs into market opportunities and defining pricing, partnerships, and distribution channels for generative models.
Responsibilities
- Drive business growth through strategic partnerships and custom deal development, from initial outreach through close
- Develop pricing strategies for capabilities that may not have existed six months ago
- Collaborate with Research, Engineering, Finance, and Legal to lead complex product, data, and distribution deals
- Identify and forge new distribution and monetization channels the market hasn't imagined yet
- Translate technical capabilities into commercial opportunities, working directly with engineers to understand product requirements and limitations
- Structure partnership models that serve both API users and enterprises running models on-premise
Requirements
- Deep technical fluency, with experience in image/video generation or a technical background (solutions architect, engineer, technical product manager)
- Ability to discuss model architectures, inference optimization, and training pipelines with the research team
- Proven track record in BD/partnerships in AI, cloud, or technical infrastructure
- Deep understanding of SaaS business models, API pricing, cloud consulting, and enterprise licensing
- Ability to hold technical conversations with engineers and translate them into commercial strategy
- Strong relationship-building with track record of maintaining long-term partnerships
- Analytical rigor and market research capabilities
- Experience with diffusion models for image/video generation (nice to have)
- Early-stage, high-growth startup experience (nice to have)
- B2B API and model weight licensing sales models (nice to have)
- Open-source business model experience (nice to have)
Skills
- Technical fluency
- Business development
- Partnerships
- SaaS business models
- API pricing
- Enterprise licensing
- Relationship-building
- Analytical rigor
- Market research
Location
- San Francisco, USA
- Remote
Work Type
- Office-based
- Remote-first
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- EU €135,000 - €190,000 + variable + equity
- US $175,000 - $240,000 + variable + equity
Benefits
- Travel costs covered for in-person requirements
About the Company
- We’re the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX—foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and video.
- We’re creating the generative models that power how people make images and video—tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide.
- Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we’re just getting started.
- Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco, we’re scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research excellence, open science, and building technology that expands human creativity.
