Business Development Lead, Cloud & AI

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Business Development

Harvey is seeking a Business Development Lead, Cloud & AI to own relationships with major cloud providers and AI labs, driving joint go-to-market, co-product development, and co-marketing initiatives. This role involves defining alliance strategy, managing executive relationships, developing joint business plans, and leading a team of partner managers to ensure these alliances deliver commercial and strategic value.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and execute Harvey's cloud and AI alliance strategy, ensuring alignment with company-wide product and growth priorities
  2. Own the executive-level relationships with key cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft) and AI labs; serve as the primary point of contact for joint planning and escalation
  3. Develop and maintain joint business plans with each strategic partner, with clear objectives around pipeline, revenue, product integration, and brand amplification
  4. Track competitive dynamics across the cloud/AI ecosystem and advise leadership on partnership opportunities and threats
  5. Partner with Harvey's Product and Engineering teams to drive technical integrations, joint solution development, and marketplace listings with cloud and AI partners

Skills

Required

  • 7–10+ years of experience in technology alliances, cloud partnerships, or strategic business development within enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, or platform ecosystems
  • Proven track record of managing multi-dimensional partnerships with cloud hyperscalers (AWS, Azure/Microsoft, GCP) or AI labs — across co-sell, co-build, and co-market motions
  • Strong technical fluency: you can engage credibly with product and engineering teams on integration architecture, API strategy, and platform capabilities
  • Experience managing and developing teams of 3–5+ across alliance management and partner development functions
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to build trusted relationships with VP+ stakeholders at major technology companies
  • Analytical rigor — you are comfortable defining KPIs, building business cases for partnership investments, and using data to drive decisions
  • Startup sensibility: you thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and are comfortable building alliance programs from scratch in a high-growth environment

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise-grade platform
  • frontier agentic AI
  • cloud hyperscalers
  • frontier AI labs
  • co-development collaborators
  • co-investment vehicles
  • co-marketing amplifiers
  • multi-dimensional partnerships
  • alliance management
  • partner development functions