Founding Strategic Partnerships
About this role
We just raised a seed + series A round led by a16z, we're now looking to dramatically accelerate our growth and expand our core founding team.
We believe that the future of AI hinges on better data—and not just more of it, but data that is diverse, consented, and representative. From health to finance to language, AI systems today are limited by the data they were trained on. Midcentury changes that by creating a new incentive layer for contribution.
Our first focus in this space is audio training data. In our first year, we’ve partnered some of the top multimodal AI labs, helping them access net-new, valuable datasets for the next generation of AI. Our team is sharp, humble, ambitious, and tight-knit. We’re looking for the best research, engineering, product and operations minds to join us on our mission to revolutionize audio AI.
We are looking for a Founding Strategic Partnerships with 3-4+ years of experience to own GTM and commercial relationships with frontier AI labs and major model builders, driving revenue from data sales into leading AI companies. This person will be crucial in turbocharging contracts and expanding our reach beyond initial customers and datasets.
What will you be doing?
Own GTM and commercial relationships with frontier AI labs and major model builders.
Drive revenue from data sales (audio datasets) into labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, "Mag 7" labs, and other leading AI companies.
Support supply-side partnerships (e.g., gaming, media, audio/video companies) for data licensing.
Have technical conversations with partners, understanding pain points related to model training, dataset specs, and data quality.
Operate as the first GTM hire, being self-directed and comfortable designing and executing without a pre-existing playbook.
Company at a glance
Midcentury is building a next-generation platform for audio AI that enables secure onboarding of private data and expert-labeled data services from global contributors to tackle multimodal AI with massive data pipelines; it recently raised a Series A led by a16z.
Culture & values
Values entrepreneurial builders who thrive in ambiguity and enjoy collaborating with technical teams.
Employees work shoulder-to-shoulder with world-class researchers and engineers, indicating a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary work environment.
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