Industry & Partnership Manager UZH.ai

The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields. With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional apprenticeship streams the University offers an inspiring working environment on cutting-edge research and top-class education. Put your talent and skills to work with us. Find out more about UZH as an employer!

Your responsibilities

• Build and manage a pipeline of industry partners and fellowship sponsors across pharma, finance, tech, and public sector. You will have clear annual revenue targets for fellowship sponsorships and industry programs.
• Design, pitch, and close tailored partnership agreements - from first conversation to signed contract
• You are comfortable operating as a player‑coach: personally driving key deals while shaping our partnership strategy and basic processes (CRM, reporting).
• Own the industry-facing dimension of the UZH.ai Fellowship Program, including coordination with the UZH Foundation
• Develop new partnership formats and translate UZH.ai's research offering into compelling value propositions
• Represent UZH.ai at key ecosystem events and help organize our flagship events (AI+X Summit, AI Town-halls)
• Contribute to grant applications and strategic planning as part of a small, collaborative team
• Report regularly on pipeline, probability‑weighted revenue, and partner retention, and adjust your approach based on data

Your profile
We are looking for an Industry & Partnership Manager who knows how to turn world-class research into partner-ships that industry actually wants to sign. Your primary mandate: build UZH.ai's industry revenue base - through fellowship sponsorships, corporate affiliate programs, and tailored research collaboration formats - and make sure partners stay engaged and see real value.
You will own the full partnership cycle: identify prospects, build relationships, design the offer, negotiate, close, and retain. The main selling point is the UZH.ai Fellowship Program - co-funding outstanding AI researchers in exchange for research collaboration and talent access - but we're looking for someone creative enough to de-velop new formats and connect UZH's unique interdisciplinary AI strength (AI & medicine, AI & law, AI & finance, AI & society and more) to what industry actually needs.
Because we're a small team, you'll also contribute to events, community activities, and other project tasks. We're looking for someone who is energized by that, not put off by it.