Partnerships Program Manager; Tapestry

Tapestry is Alphabet’s moonshot for the electric grid, working at the frontier where energy’s complexity meets AI’s potential. We were born at X, the innovation lab responsible for breakthrough technologies like Waymo, Verily and Google Brain.

To keep pace with humanity’s growing energy needs, the world needs a grid that is visible and understandable. We provide that clarity by building advanced, AI-enabled analytical and planning tools that allow the entire energy ecosystem to plan smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently—ensuring electricity remains reliable and affordable for everyone.

This is a global effort. Tapestry is proud to support partners in the U.S., U.K., Chile, New Zealand, Australia and Brazil as they build a cleaner, more resilient energy future.

Joining Tapestry allows you to do the best work of your life as part of a multidisciplinary team of experts in AI, energy systems, software engineering and product design—all collaborating to reshape energy on a global scale. If you want to tackle problems that matter and build tools with real impact, we would love to meet you. Learn more about our team and our mission here.

As the Partnerships Program Manager for X’s moonshot for the electric grid you will play a critical role in supporting a multi-disciplinary team through development of a new Platform, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to manage and drive the ongoing development of our tools and technology in collaboration with external collaborators. You will identify and prioritize risks in ambiguous, complex environments across both internal and external stakeholders.

This position calls for someone who is highly-organized, a persuasive communicator, is passionate about early stage projects, and is comfortable with ambiguity.

• Relationship Ownership: serve as the key relationship owner for multiple partner organizations, cultivating trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels. Work to maximize the value of these partnerships and ensure our partners are meeting their goals as well.
• Program leadership:
  Orchestrate complex program delivery, owning the execution of critical work streams from definition to sign-off. Manage timelines, risks, and dependencies across Engineering, Product, and our partners to help build AI-powered tools that solve real-world grid challenges on schedule.
• Commercial and operational strategy definition:
  Translate high-level partnership goals into actionable plans. You will determine partnership direction, manage contract deliverables, and establish the "rhythm of the business" to achieve these goals.
• Cross-functional coordination: act as the translator between Tapestry’s teams and our partners' operational realities. You will facilitate discovery sessions and workshops that help our engineers understand user needs, provide insights and partner feedback to our teams, and help our partners adopt and deploy transformative new technologies.

• Have 5+ years of relevant professional experience (e.g., business development, consulting, program management, customer success, partner management, etc.)
• Have a demonstrated track record of success owning and growing customer and partner relationships, especially at a startup or quickly-growing business.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills for detailed documentation of the project and progress.
• Are a team player and creative thinker who is able to lead teams including engineering, business development, operations, and other cross functional groups, and vendors.
• Are comfortable with complex software, technology and power systems topics.
• Want to work in energy, sustainability or tackling climate change.
• Enjoy working in a complex, fast-paced environment and have an entrepreneurial curiosity with excellent interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills.
• Are able to travel +/- 15% of the time.

• Take charge
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  We take initiative and own outcomes that move the mission forward.
• Purpose in everything
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  We build solutions that solve real problems and create meaningful impact.
• Stronger together
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  We collaborate across diverse…