Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The OpenClaw Foundation is the steward of the world's largest open source AI agent project. They are seeking a Technical Partnerships & Program Manager to serve as the technical bridge between the Foundation, its strategic partners, and the broader open-source community, focusing on enabling successful technical collaboration across organizations.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Strategic Partnerships Lead and Executive Director during technical conversations with prospective Foundation members and ecosystem partners
- Understand partner architectures, AI infrastructure, deployment models, and technical objectives
- Evaluate technical fit and identify opportunities for collaboration around OpenClaw, interoperability, and emerging standards
- Represent the Foundation in technical discussions with AI labs, cloud providers, enterprises, research organizations, and developer communities
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic ecosystem partners
- Help organizations successfully adopt, integrate with, and contribute to the OpenClaw platform
- Coordinate technical onboarding, architecture reviews, and developer enablement efforts
- Work alongside partner engineering teams and Foundation maintainers to troubleshoot technical challenges and remove adoption barriers
- Coordinate cross-functional execution across Engineering, Developer Relations, Product, and community contributors to ensure successful partner initiatives
- 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
Skills
- 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
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