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title: 'Director of Technology Partnerships at Bland'
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# Director of Technology Partnerships at Bland

- **Company:** Bland
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bland/0393fafd-0681-4b60-82e0-9f97e8e62393

## Job description

## About Bland AI

Bland AI builds voice AI for enterprises with complex, high-volume call center operations. Our platform helps businesses automate customer conversations and complete the workflows behind them. By developing our own voice AI stack, we give enterprises greater control over the reliability, security, and customization of their deployments.

Core Responsibilities

- Identify, evaluate, and source new technology partners across complementary software, telecom, and contact center platforms. Build relationships from initial outreach through agreement and launch.
- Own and grow a portfolio of existing technology partnerships, establishing shared priorities and developing relationships across business, technical, and executive stakeholders.
- Build business cases for new partnerships and expansion opportunities based on customer demand, product fit, revenue potential, implementation effort, and ongoing support needs.
- Work with partners and Bland’s Product and Engineering teams to define joint use cases, align integration requirements, coordinate launches, and bring customer and partner feedback into roadmap discussions.
- Lead partnership negotiations with support from leadership, Legal, and Finance, aligning commercial terms, incentives, commitments, and responsibilities around mutual value.
- Develop and execute joint go-to-market plans with Sales and Marketing, including positioning, partner enablement, co-selling, and targeted campaigns that drive adoption and qualified opportunities.
- Establish partner goals and run regular business reviews focused on integration adoption, partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline, revenue, and customer outcomes.
- Identify and resolve barriers to partner success, clarify ownership across teams, and maintain momentum from initial launch through ongoing growth.
- Use performance data to identify expansion opportunities, adjust underperforming initiatives, and prioritize where Bland invests time and resources.
- Build repeatable playbooks, partner plans, and reporting. Use tools and automation to reduce manual coordination and help the ecosystem grow efficiently.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of product partnership experience, including direct ownership of technology partnerships, platform alliances, or integration partnerships at a B2B technology company.
- A track record of both sourcing and launching new partnerships from scratch and managing and expanding existing relationships.
- Examples of partnerships you helped translate into measurable results, such as customer adoption, product capabilities, qualified pipeline, or revenue.
- Technical fluency sufficient to discuss APIs, integrations, and customer workflows with product and engineering teams and explain their value to commercial audiences.
- Experience developing partnership business cases, negotiating agreements, and aligning stakeholders around shared commitments.
- Strong execution across multiple teams: setting priorities, clarifying ownership, resolving blockers, and following through.
- Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously, exercise judgment, and make progress when the path is not fully defined.

Nice-to-Have Experience

- Background in voice AI, conversational AI, broader AI, telecommunications, contact center technology, or customer experience software.
- Familiarity with integration partnerships, joint solution development, co-selling, and co-marketing.
- Experience building partnership processes or programs at an early-stage or rapidly growing company.
- Experience navigating enterprise buying processes or working with customers in regulated industries.

Relevant industry experience is valuable, but it is not required. We welcome candidates who bring strong partnership fundamentals, curiosity, and the ability to learn a new market quickly.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Annual cash compensation (OTE): $160,000–$240,000, including base salary and target incentive compensation.
- Equity: Meaningful equity in a high-growth, well-funded AI company, separate from and in addition to the annual cash compensation range.
- Full benefits package.
- Fully remote work within the United States; working from our San Francisco headquarters is a plus.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time for partner meetings, joint customer engagements, and industry events.

Additional Information Candidates must be able to work in the United States. Bland is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and do not discriminate based on any legally protected characteristic. Bland participates in the E-Verify employment verification program. All new hires are required to complete the Form I-9, and employment will be verified through E-Verify as part of the onboarding process.

## About Bland

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bland provides an enterprise voice AI platform for building, deploying, and monitoring AI phone agents that hold natural conversations at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, over $100M raised)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Isaiah Granet and a second co-founder (Y Combinator Summer 2023 batch)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI voice agents / enterprise AI infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises, regulated industries (healthcare, finance, insurance, etc.) – B2B
- **Mission**: To automate phone calls that previously required a human, with security and trust built from the ground up.

## Products & Services
- **Bland Voice AI Platform (SaaS / On‑premises)**: A full‑stack platform combining custom speech‑to‑text, large language model (LLM), text‑to‑speech, and telephony. Supports inbound and outbound calls across voice, SMS, iMessage, and web chat. Unified memory across channels and real‑time observability.
- **Conversational Pathways**: A proprietary programming language that enables users to create branching, deterministic call flows to reduce hallucinations.
- **Forward Deployed Engineering**: Professional services that build the first production agent end‑to‑end in 2–6 weeks, integrating with the customer’s CRM, telephony, and scheduling tools.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (latest round: Series C)
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: Over $100M total raised (Series C announced in 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S23), Team Ignite Ventures, Max Levchin (PayPal co‑founder), Jeff Lawson (Twilio co‑founder)
- **Growth Signals**: 522M+ calls resolved to date, 47M+ calls per month, ~100 employees, $2M ARR achieved within four months of the initial pivot. Certifications include SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS v4.0, and GDPR – enabling adoption in highly regulated verticals.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full‑stack ownership**: Bland built its own voice models, LLM, text‑to‑speech, and speech‑to‑text – not a wrapper around third‑party APIs. This provides lower latency (~400ms) and full control over model behavior.
- **Compliance‑first design**: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR out of the box. Self‑hosted and on‑premises deployments available for sensitive workloads.
- **Proprietary orchestration**: The Conversational Pathways language allows deterministic, auditable call flows that reduce hallucination risk.
- **Rapid deployment**: Typical go‑live in 30 days with dedicated Forward Deployed Engineer support.

## Strategic Focus
- **Regulated industries**: Deepening traction in healthcare, financial services, and insurance where compliance and data residency are critical.
- **Global expansion**: Multi‐language support (40+ languages, real‑time translation in 23) and data residency options in US, EU, and APAC.
- **Channel expansion**: Unifying agent memory across voice and messaging to offer a single omnichannel AI assistant.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “We hire for obsession, not pedigree.” Emphasis on work ethic, accountability, and direct ownership. Flat structure with minimal approval chains (“No committees. No approval chains. Ship the right thing, measure the result, iterate.”)
- **Engineering focus**: The company built its own models and infrastructure – ideal for engineers who want to work on frontier AI problems rather than stitching together APIs.
- **Location & flexibility**: Based in San Francisco with remote (US) options for some roles. The office environment is startup‑intense; the co‑founder famously slept on a closet floor during the early pivot.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company highlights a “build it yourself” ethos, early‑stage equity, and direct impact on a product that processes tens of millions of calls per month.

## Sources
1. [bland.com](https://www.bland.com/)
2. [bland.ai](https://www.bland.ai/about)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bland-ai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bland)

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