Senior Technical Partner Marketing Manager

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$196K/yr – $240K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive partner strategies and GTM programs across AI infrastructure and ecosystems, turning integrations into repeatable, measurable customer value.

  • Define differentiated value propositions and reference architectures
  • Lead cross-functional readiness and enablement for partner launches

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop segment-specific partner strategies across model-serving and open-source frameworks, silicon and accelerators, cloud and inference providers, model providers, data and developer platforms, AI tooling, and application ecosystems
  • Define differentiated “better together” value propositions that explain the customer and developer outcomes created by each class of integration
  • Turn partner integrations into reference architectures, validated demos, solution briefs, tutorials, benchmarks, presentations, and field enablement
  • Build and execute joint go-to-market plans with clear audiences, use cases, messaging, assets, launch sequences, field motions, and measures of success
  • Partner closely with Alliances, Engineering, Product, Developer Relations, Product Marketing, Sales, and partner teams to define shared priorities, responsibilities, and deliverables
  • Lead the content and readiness workstream for partner launches, ensuring technical claims, demonstrations, and proof points are accurate and reviewable
  • Create reusable segment playbooks that help SambaNova evaluate opportunities and scale successful partner motions across the ML and AI ecosystem
  • Support technical workshops, partner briefings, field meetings, campaigns, events, webinars, and executive engagements with tailored demos and clear talk tracks
  • Gather ecosystem feedback and competitive insight to inform product priorities, integration strategy, positioning, and future partner investments
  • Track developer adoption, co-marketing performance, influenced pipeline, asset usage, partner engagement, and customer outcomes; use results to improve the GTM strategy

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in partner marketing, technical product marketing, developer marketing, solutions architecture, strategic alliances, or a closely related role
  • Technical fluency in AI infrastructure, model serving, inference, open-source software, cloud platforms, silicon, developer tools, or data center systems
  • Experience building joint value propositions and executing coordinated go-to-market programs with technology partners
  • Ability to understand an integration deeply enough to create credible technical content, demonstrations, positioning, and enablement
  • Strong program management and stakeholder leadership across internal teams and independent partner organizations
  • Excellent writing, presentation, and verbal communication skills for developer, partner, field, and enterprise audiences
  • High ownership, sound judgment, and comfort independently balancing technical accuracy, partner priorities, and launch timelines

Preferred

  • Experience working across multiple ML and AI ecosystem segments, such as model-serving frameworks, silicon, cloud infrastructure, model platforms, developer tools, or AI applications
  • Hands-on familiarity with reference architectures, proofs of concept, benchmarking, workload optimization, integration testing, or OpenAI-compatible APIs
  • Experience supporting joint launches, executive events, developer programs, customer proof, and partner or sales enablement
  • A track record of turning a technical integration into measurable adoption, engagement, influenced pipeline, or customer value
  • Experience creating repeatable partner playbooks or scaling a successful joint GTM motion across a broader ecosystem segment

Benefits

  • Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits.
  • We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
  • We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
  • Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.
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Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI CapacityAt SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing.Our MissionTo give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow.Our TechnologyWe give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise.Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier.SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations.SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days.At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.

Founded in 2017
San Jose, California, USA
405 employees (25 in marketing)
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$196K/yr – $240K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
1.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5B
Last Raise
$1B
Series F

Funding History

  • Jul 2026
    Series F • $1B
  • Feb 2026
    Series E • $350M
  • Oct 2023
    Secondary Market

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Monthly Visitors
197.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
39.8%
Referral
4.5%
Social
8.8%
Paid
1.1%

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Current headcount: ~405

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Senior Technical Partner Marketing Manager

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