Strategic Vendor Partnerships Lead, Technology

Multiverse is the upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption.

We have partnered with 1500 companies to deliver a new kind of learning thats transforming todays workforce.

Our upskilling apprenticeships are designed for people of any age and career stage to build critical AI data and tech skills. Our learners have driven $2bn ROI for their employers using the skills theyve learned to improve productivity and measurable performance.

In April 2026 we announced $70 million in strategic funding led by Schroders Capital with participation from Step Stone Group Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst. At an increased valuation of $2.1bn the round makes us Europes first EdTech double unicorn.

But we arent stopping there. With a strong operational footprint and 800 employees we have ambitious plans to continue scaling. Were building a world where tech skills unlock peoples potential and output.

Join Multiverse and power our mission to equip the workforce to win in the AI era.

Multiverse is the UKs largest apprenticeship provider and its first EdTech unicorn and its rebuilding on an AI-first foundation. Enterprise Trust & Reliability is the layer where that platform meets the customer the regulator and the investor. Our mission is to turn enterprise trust into enterprise revenue: the guardrails integrations and vendor relationships that let Multiverse move fast without breaking the trust that enterprise customers pay for.

Were hiring our first Strategic Technology Vendor Partnerships Lead: the commercial operator who owns how we buy renew and partner on technology. Youll sit at the seam between engineering security legal finance and our vendors and youll turn tooling spend and partner relationships into commercial advantage.

This is a high-autonomy high-influence individual-contributor role reporting to the Senior Director of the function.

Build and own commercial and vendor relationships that matter most model providers like Anthropic or ChatGPT hyperscalers like AWS and Google major platforms like Salesforce or Oracle and developer and security tooling tooling vendors. Keep these relationships warm and know when to activate them. Look past cost: proactively find where a vendor relationship can unlock real value for the business whether thats training co-building product integrations or better commercial terms.

Centralise and modernise how we buy renew and consolidate technology building this from a low base. That means a single software asset register a clear intake-and-approval flow and legal and security engaged early as a gate to clear not a blocker to fight. Bring total cost of ownership and usage-based pricing into the open so spend maps to outcomes.

Own the live threads from day one including our LLM enterprise contracts AI tooling Identity platforms and other software contracts and hold the pen on negotiations and renewals across the wider technology portfolio.

Turn procurement and partnerships into a commercial lever not a cost centre. Youll sit at the seam between engineering security legal and finance influencing outcomes across teams you dont manage so persuasion and clarity carry the role. Done well this also becomes trust and vendor evidence that helps enterprise and regulated customers say yes faster.

At Multiverse AI is our engine not an this seat thats literal: youll be buying negotiating and partnering on the exact tools that make it true and modelling what they cost and what they return. We expect you to use AI daily in your own work from drafting and comparing contracts to analysing spend and to be genuinely curious about a tooling and AI-provider market that looks different every quarter.

Youve built and grown relationships with major technology partners AWS Google Salesforce Anthropic-type organisations and can point to commercial impact you unlocked not just costs you cut.

Youre comfortable inside a procurement process too: youve negotiated and renewed software cloud or SaaS contracts and can speak to the trade-offs you made you understand consumption-based pricing and youre at ease driving a decision across security legal and finance without owning those teams. But procurement isnt the whole story for you you think about what a vendor relationship can build not just what it costs and you treat compliance as a lever rather than a blocker.

Youre technically literate enough to challenge a vendors claim without being an engineer and comfortable…