Technical Partnerships & Program Manager

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.

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.

Success in Your First Year

Within your first 12 months, you will have:

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.