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Director of Business Development

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Lead growth initiatives in business development by growing customer segments, driving commercial discussions, and managing client relationships in the AI sector.
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Description

Company Intro

At Toloka AI we create data that powers some of the best GenAI models, we work with Big Tech, renowned AI startups, enterprises and non-profit research organisations worldwide.

We use a combination of Experts + Crowd + Tech Platform teaching AI models to reason. We have experts in more than 20 different domains, from doctors and lawyers, to physicists and engineers and  one of the most diverse global crowds from 100 countries speaking 40 languages.

We are a startup with an enviable portfolio of clients and strong financial backing. Our team of 200 talented people is remote-first and globally distributed around the world: USA, UK, the Netherlands, Israel, Czech Republic, Serbia, and more. We have 2 offices: Amsterdam, Netherlands and Belgrade, Serbia.



Responsibilities

We’re reinventing our business development organisation and looking for people who want to lead our next wave of growth. This is a challenging task in a complex industry going through exciting times.

You’ll have to combine all your skills and learn a ton more to help us grow 10x:

  • Growing a specific customer segment (BigTech, frontier GenAI startups, product startups, enterprises)
  • Partnering with Strategy & Research to explore new areas with customers
  • Driving commercial discussions, identifying pain points, structuring projects
  • Structuring pricing, portfolio management and cross-functional planning and execution
  • Developing client relationships, managing sales and account teams

You’ll read dozens of scientific articles, market reviews and researchers' opinions, go to AI and ML conferences, talk to brilliant and (most of the time) enthusiastic client data scientists, ML engineers, product managers, and executives.

You’ll work with our team of ex- Google, McKinsey, QuantumBlack, Bain people and experience the startup environment.



Requirements

  • Consulting toolkit: 2+ years in top-3 consulting reaching levels of Junior Engagement Manager, Engagement Manager or Associate Partner
  • Industry experience: worked in tech, startups, or as a founder
  • Background in STEM: BS or MS in computer science, maths, physics, etc.
  • Deep understanding of AI and GenAI: technology and market trends, basic knowledge of statistics, ML and data science



Benefits

Why join this project

You’ll be collaborating with a company that has a product that is already proven and a client list that includes top level companies internationally. You will have the opportunity to dive deeply into the ML world and solve real pain points in the industry. You’ll work in an environment where decision making is fast and plans are quickly implemented.



Country of Origin
None

Top Skills

AI
Consulting
Data Science
Machine Learning
Statistics

Toloka San Francisco, California, USA Office

San Francisco, CA, United States

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