Business Development and Partnership

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The first thing I (Gagan) did when starting the Academy was build relationships with our Founding Partners: OpenAI, Palantir, Stripe, Anduril, Replit, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Coinbase, Meta and Google.

After those were signed up, a P0 task for launch was also to bring on over 50 hiring partners to offer co-op programs and full-time opportunities to our students. We also have started to build a network of recruitment partners who have access to the best high school students in the country and may be able to identify and refer them to us.

Building a fantastic network is essential to the school's success. We have access to the Valley via a16z, but there is still a ton of work in recruiting, negotiating with, and activating an incredible partner network.

You can sit across the table with a CXO at a Fortune 10 company. You can build a scalable system to engage hundreds or thousands of hiring partners at the leading tech companies of our time. You will build a philanthropic and investment network of partners who will provide grants or investment to our students. You understand how to engage and negotiate with these folks and ensure that they are benefiting from their relationship with Horowitz Andreessen Academy. You also creatively come up with solutions to our students needs. If a student is trying to do genomics research, build a robot, launch a satellite, or create a new type of LLM, you will help procure the resources for that student.

This is a complex role and we hope someone is super excited by the opportunity to build it.

It's also a senior enough role that applying through the website is useless so please find your way to me.