Business Developer - FedML, Inc.

Responsibilities

• Identify and research potential clients
• Develop and maintain client relationships
• Negotiate contract terms with clients and communicate with stakeholders
• Make and give presentations to prospective clients and internal executives
• Create and implement processes and policies to support overall business
• Track, identify and add qualified prospects to sales pipeline
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships to grow business
• Conduct ongoing market research
• Drive the end-to-end sales process
• Prepare and submit sales contracts

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in BA or related areas
• 2 years of experience with business development
• Strong communication and writing skills in English environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Sales ability is highly desired since you will need to identify the value proposition for prospective partners. Examples of previous sales success and value proposition identification with creative solutions are desired.
• Market understanding of enterprise software is preferred and specific areas of knowledge or technical experience in AI/Big Data/Analytics/SaaS experience is a plus
• You must have a passion for building relationships that are mutually beneficial. Previous business development experience creating partnerships is a plus
• Define partnerships strategies and execute on go-to-market and adoption plans
• You have strong relationship-building skills, creativity, organizational skills, exceptional communication capabilities, strong multi-tasking ability, and a do-whatever-it-takes attitude
• Internal cross-functional experience building relationships with marketing, product management, engineering, sales, and legal functions
• Understand and communicate market opportunities, needs and partner feedback to cross-functional team to inform product roadmap and prioritization
• Be metric minded – use data to articulate opportunities internally, externally, and to report on success
• Contract negotiation experience is a plus

About the Job

FedML, Inc. (https:/fedml.ai) empowers our clients to build & scale any machine learning or artificial intelligence models anywhere. That includes the latest foundation models as well as more traditional ML models.  Our products cover both training, serving with a low-code UI MLOPs & LLMOps platform. We also offer a Federated Machine Learning solution for cross-silo training for data privacy sensitive applications.

Our earliest products power federated machine learning missions for clients in several industries, where data privacy, low latency serving, and low cost of data storage are important to the client.  Our easy-to-use FedML MLOps solution enables data science and machine learning engineering to work seamlessly together to deploy & manage their model to production machines. Our federated learning and serving solutions support siloed edge devices, smartphones, and IoT.

Our next generation of solutions includes geo-distributed machine learning and serving that continues our tradition of delivering easy-to-use, simple, low-cost, and enterprise grade MLOPs solutions.  Our MLOps and evolving LLMOps platform will always empower experimentation, observability, evaluation, governance, and collaboration for our clients’ AI & ML training and serving needs, as well as other general computing needs.

FedML supports vertical solutions across a broad range of industries (healthcare, finance, insurance, automotive, advertising, smart cities, IoT etc,) and applications (computer vision, natural language processing, data mining, and time-series forecasting). Its core technology is backed by more than 3 years of cutting-edge research of its co-founders who are recognized leaders in the federated machine learning community.

FedML's researchers and software engineers and product teams are busy developing the next-generation FedML platform for machine learning and artificial intelligence and we're looking to grow our team with skilled professionals who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including machine learning and its applications, computer vision, natural language processing, large-scale system design, distributed/cloud computing/systems, MLOps, security/privacy, mobile/IoT systems, and networking.  We’re an early stage startup, hence you will work on projects which are critical to our customers' and our business needs.  If you love to learn, and love to convert ideas into real and scalable machine learning infrastructure products and applications, FedML may be a great place for you.

Location

Our HQ is in Sunnyvale California.  Preference is for someone local who can be at our office regularly. Hybrid is ok.

How to apply

If you are interested, please apply via the link.