Senior Partnerships Activation Manager, Partnerize
$155-165k
+ Bonus
1-2 days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
Partnership management software
Be an early applicant
Partnership management software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$155-165k
+ Bonus
1-2 days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To turn partnerships into a profit center.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8+ years of experience in partnerships, partner operations, partner marketing, partner development, business operations, or go-to-market program management
- Experience in martech, adtech, SaaS, or digital marketing ecosystems
- Ability to manage complex cross-functional initiatives
- Strong communication and relationship management skills
- Experience with partnership engagement and management tools (e.g. Crossbeam, Impartner PRM, Salesforce PRM)
- Comfort working with both internal stakeholders and external partners
- Ability to translate strategic initiatives into structured execution plans
- NYC or SFO based
What the job involves
- Partnerize is building the economic infrastructure for AI-driven commerce, connecting discovery, measurement, and compensation across publishers, creators, and brands
- Strategic partnerships are a critical part of that strategy
- These partnerships expand distribution, strengthen the Partnerize ecosystem, and accelerate adoption of innovations like VantagePoint™
- The Senior Manager, Partnerships Activation will be responsible for ensuring that partnerships signed by the Strategic Alliances team translate into measurable outcomes
- This role is highly cross-functional and execution-oriented
- The successful candidate will work across product, marketing, sales, and customer success to operationalize partnerships and ensure they deliver real value to customers and to the business
- Translate newly signed partnerships into actionable internal and external programs
- Coordinating internal kickoff processes for new partners
- Conducting product education and training sessions for partners
- Defining joint go-to-market plans
- Ensuring partners are integrated into the Partnerize sales and marketing motion
- Example activities may include launching initiatives similar to the Partnerize + Profound AI discovery partnership
- Serve as the central coordinator across teams to ensure partnership initiatives move forward.
- Product and engineering on integrations
- Marketing on joint campaigns and thought leadership
- Sales on partner-enabled pipeline development
- Customer success on partner-led customer adoption
- The role requires strong organizational discipline to keep multiple workstreams progressing simultaneously
- Act as the primary day-to-day operational contact for strategic partners
- Build rapport with operational stakeholders at partner organizations
- Coordinating regular partner check-ins
- Conduct regular partner reviews to gather insights, strengthen relationships, and drive improvements in processes
- Coordinating, supporting, and participating in quarterly partnership business reviews (QBRs)
- Tracking partnership KPIs, initiatives and milestones
- Ensuring both companies deliver on agreed commitments
- Lead internal teams in resolving partnership-related challenges
- Identify incremental opportunities for partnership expansion
- The goal is to maintain momentum and ensure partnerships remain productive
- Support the execution of joint go-to-market initiatives including:
- Co-marketing campaigns
- Running MDF programs
- Webinars and events
- Joint customer outreach
- Partner enablement for sales teams
- Contribute to internal documentation, Partner Playbooks, training material, and scalable processes for cross-functional teams
- Ensure the sales organization understands how to position the partnership and when to leverage it in customer conversations
- Track and report on partnership performance
- Pipeline sourced or influenced by partnerships
- Customer adoption of partner integrations
- Joint marketing engagement
- Product usage associated with partnerships
- Provide regular reporting to the VP of Strategic Alliances and leadership team
Our take
Partnerize is a company offering a Partner Management Platform that helps businesses form, manage, analyze and predict the outcomes of their partner marketing programs. Leveraging the power of AI, it streamlines the entire process, making it easier for companies to maximize their partner relationships.
As the world of partnerships evolves, Partnerize has positioned itself at the forefront of this dynamic field. With a growing range of sectors such as channel partnerships, influencer collaborations, loyalty programs, referral networks and brand-to-brand alliances, the company has adapted to meet the complex needs of modern partner marketing, in addition to traditional affiliate marketing.
Partnerize is focused on providing its clients with an edge over the competition by automating as much of the partnership management process as possible. This commitment to efficiency, combined with its ability to leverage economies of scale, enables the company to address some of the industry's toughest challenges, including payments, ensuring that clients remain loyal to its platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2020
$50m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2018
$9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $87.5m
Company benefits
- Generous wellness benefits and paid time off
- Robust parental leave
- Competitive retirement savings benefits
- Employee learning & development opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Matt Gilbert
(CEO)Previously the CEO of Pepperjam and Kinetic Social. They also spent time as the Senior VP & GM at Merkle, and as the COO at 500Friends.
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