Strategic Partnerships Director Jobs

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Airbnb is redefining the world's approach to accommodation and travel. We are creating highly local, personal and authentic experiences for our host and guest community around the world. Our platform connects millions of people a year and furthers our mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. To power the global Airbnb community, we are building a world-class payments platform - one that currently supports 191 countries, 63 currencies, connects dozens of payment providers and banks, and processes billions of dollars per year for all of Airbnb’s business units. As the platform grows, we’ll be adding new payment partners, establishing licensed payments companies around the world, and building innovative payment experiences and financial products for our guests and hosts. Our goal? To create a future where transparent, simple, and familiar payment solutions can empower people, entrepreneurs and communities on our global marketplace. The Difference You Will Make: Airbnb is seeking an experienced and strategic Payment Partnerships Manager to drive the vision, execution, and ongoing performance of our partner network supporting how we pay out to our global host community across 200+ markets. Reporting to the Head of Payment Partnerships, this role is pivotal in managing the partnerships that ensure our hosts are paid reliably, efficiently, compliantly and in alignment with our growth and platform goals. You will lead business development, deal negotiation, and strategic relationship management for a portfolio of high-value payment partners. With a focus on impact a

About the Team The Outside Account Management team at DoorDash partners with restaurant merchants to help them grow simply and profitable on the platform. Our mission is to support merchants throughout their journey – ensuring a positive experience while also helping them unlock meaningful growth opportunities. We work closely with merchants to understand their goals, solve operational challenges, and recommend growth strategies that fit their business – balancing thoughtful partnership with commercial impact. About the Role As a Strategic Partner Manager II (SPM) , you will own and grow relationships with a portfolio of SMB restaurant partners, operating with a high degree of autonomy and strategic judgment. You’ll lead complex, high-impact partnerships focused on driving long-term growth, profitability, and retention for merchants on the DoorDash platform. In this role, you’ll move beyond day-to-day account management to guide more strategic merchant conversations—helping partners think holistically about growth, operations, and how to scale their business with DoorDash. You’ll proactively adapt account plans as opportunities and challenges emerge, identify and address risks early, and consistently drive measurable outcomes across your book of business. Beyond your own accounts, you’ll play an influential role across the team — serving as a voice of the merchant internally, shaping cross-functional initiatives, and sharing best practices that elevate how DoorDash partners with restaurants at scale. You’ll report to a regional manager within Outside Account Management. We expect this role to be flexible, with time split between traveling to merchants and additional flexibility to work remotely from home or a DoorDash office. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own and grow strategic partnerships: Manage a portfolio of SMB restaurant partners, consistently driving measurable growth, retention, and satisfaction Lead advanced merchant s

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the role: We're hiring a Product Partnerships Manager to own Replit's most important strategic partnerships end-to-end: from identifying the opportunity to shipping the outcome and measuring the impact. This is a product-focused role where you will work with our consumer technology partners, such as Stripe, Shopify, Google, and the broader connector ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of product strategy, ecosystem thinking, and deal execution. You'll need to be a serious Replit power user. You'll speak credibly with engineers. You'll negotiate with senior partner stakeholders. And you'll be the person accountable for turning ambiguous ecosystem opportunities into shipped product and business outcomes. What You'll Do Develop a clear point of view on Replit's partner landscape and build a prioritized pipeline of high-leverage opportunities across consumer tooling, AI tooling, cloud and infrastructure, and payments technology partners. Lead partner conversations from early exploration through joint product thesis, business case, commercial terms, launch plan, and post-launch iteration. Partner with Product, Engineering, Partner Engineering, Legal, Finance, Marketing, and Sales to turn agreements into shipped outcomes. Work directly with Partner Engineers to scope integrations, demos, prototypes, reference apps, and partner enablement assets. Define success metrics before every launch activation: retained usage, apps created, deployments, revenue, partner-sourced users, and use them to decide when to scale, iterate, or sunset a partnership. Build lightweight operating systems: partner scorecards, launch checklists, partner roadmap tracking, and repeatable frameworks for evaluating new opportunities. Represent

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Strategic Channel Manager focusing on our VARs partnerships for the EMEA region, you’ll manage a book of Vanta’s strategic channel partnerships, focused on building and scaling our business with major resellers in the security and compliance ecosystem. This role sits within Vanta’s Partnerships team, where you will have a direct role in bringing Vanta’s vision of securing every technology company. You will help us ensure that our partners always receive quality guidance and enablement as they go-to-market with Vanta. What you’ll do as a Senior Strategic Channel Manager at Vanta: Develop strong executive relationships across key VAR partners, acting as a strategic thought partner. Build direct relationships with individual VAR sellers to drive rep-level engagement, education, and deal collaboration. Execute Vanta’s go-to-market and enablement playbooks with strategic resellers to ensure consistent pipeline generation and resale execution. Launch and execute joint account mapping strategies to identify overlaps and drive prioritized co-selling motions with Vanta AEs and SDRs. Facilitate co-selling between your partners and our AE team to drive net-new ARR. Enable and train key team members on how working with Vanta will benefit them as a partner Proactively share partner insights, GTM feedback, and competitive intel to help evolve Vanta’s channel strategy. Manage your book effectively, providing regular updates on pipeline generation progress and pacing. How to be successful in this role: 6+ years of experience in channel sales, strategic partnerships, or business development Proven success working for or with large value-ad

The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team handles strategy and execution of OpenAI’s compute roadmap. This team’s key responsibilities span financial analysis & reporting, capacity planning, commercial and business development, and strategic partnerships. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role Compute is central to OpenAI’s roadmap and vision. We are seeking an Associate to support financial and strategic work across our compute and infrastructure portfolio. This is a finance generalist role that includes core FP&A responsibilities as well as investment analysis, commercial decision support, and strategic planning. You will own analyses and workstreams, partner closely with technical and finance teams, and help shape decisions about how OpenAI invests in and manages compute. In this role, you will be given direction on the objective and expected to independently structure the problem, work through incomplete information, and deliver a high-quality analysis and recommendation. In this role, you will: Build and maintain financial models across different elements of compute, including GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, data centers, and power Support planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and variance analysis across compute and infrastructure Perform investment analysis and evaluate commercial decisions and strategic initiatives Prepare high-quality analyses, recommendations, and Exec and Board-facing presentations Support business partners across compute infrastructure, FP&A, and strategic finance Help improve the team’s processes, tools, and ways of working, and identify opportunities for OpenAI to continue leading in compute You might thrive in this role if you have: 3+ years of experience across private/growth equity, investment banking, or strategic finance, or 3+ years in a finance operating role at a high-growth technology company Background in infrastructure, data

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team builds next-generation AI-native silicon and systems while working closely with software, research, and manufacturing partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering systems for OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure, the team develops the tools, methodologies, and strategic partnerships needed to accelerate hardware innovation. About the Role We’re seeking an experienced Hardware Strategic Sourcing Manager to own sourcing strategy and supplier partnerships for fiber and optical interconnect components across OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. Reporting to the Head of Partnerships & Strategic Sourcing, you will lead sourcing across fiber cable assemblies, internal optical harnesses, fiber shuffles, optical backplane assemblies, connectorized and standalone passive optical assemblies, fiber-array units (FAUs), fiber-to-chip and coupling interfaces, detachable connectors, optical routing, and assigned optical packaging, assembly, and test services. You will work closely with electrical engineering, optical engineering, systems engineering, mechanical and packaging engineering, quality, rack integration, data-center deployment,manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, and program management teams to translate demanding bandwidth, signal integrity, reliability, and scale requirements into resilient supplier partnerships and scalable commercial strategies. Your work will directly support the performance, reliability, manufacturability, and scale of the high-speed optical connectivity required for OpenAI’s next-generation AI systems. In this role, you will: Develop and execute a comprehensive sourcing strategy for fiber and optical interconnect components supporting high-bandwidth AI systems and infrastructure. Own sourcing across optical fiber cable assembli

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why This Role: Cohere seeks a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to manage our Professional Services Procurement function. In this role you will be responsible for executing Strategic Sourcing activities across these categories as we continue to grow rapidly. You will collaborate with FP&A, Accounting, Legal, and multiple business stakeholders to support our Procurement operations. This is an opportunity for a hands-on Procurement professional who thrives in a high-growth environment, is comfortable navigating ambiguity, and can help implement efficient processes. You’ll be instrumental in building Procurement categories for Professional Services spend and owning their development and optimization. You’ll have the opportunity to establish best practices, drive significant cost savings, and create strategic partnerships with key service providers that support our business growth. Contract Terms: This is a 12-month fixed-term contract position with the potential for conversion to a permanent role based on business needs and performance. Please note that conversion to a permanent position is not automatic and will be subject to a se

About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role As a member of Ramp’s Strategic Account Executive team, you’ll work closely with our Head of Strategic Sales and senior leaders to drive net-new revenue and expand Ramp’s presence within the Fortune 1000. This is a new logo acquisition role focused on hunting, closing, and activating large, global Enterprise customers. You’ll play a key role in shaping Ramp’s up-market strategy, partnering cross-functionally to help modernize how the world’s largest organizations manage spend. What You'll Do Own the entire Enterprise sales cycle from prospecting through close, with a focus on new logo acquisition Self-source pipeline through outbound prospecting, warm introductions, and strategic partnerships, with clarity on pipeline origin and conversion Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles involving Finance, IT, Legal, and Procurement teams Build and maintain strong relationships with C-suite executives, clearly articulating ROI, payback period, and business outcomes Collaborate cross-functionally with Solutions, SEs, CSMs, Channel Partner,

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Revenue Accounting to lead revenue strategy and technical accounting for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary revenue advisor for large, bespoke, and non-standard deals outside OpenAI’s standard product and service offerings. Your portfolio may include strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage early in the deal lifecycle to help shape commercially viable, accounting-compliant, and operationally scalable outcomes. You will establish the accounting posture, identify required contract and product terms, define reporting and control requirements, and ensure that deal economics, billing flows, and revenue recognition remain aligned as the business evolves. This role requires strong technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, executive communication, and the ability to create clarity and ownership in areas where precedent may not yet exist. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own technical revenue accounti

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Revenue Recognition to lead revenue strategy and technical accounting for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary revenue advisor for large, bespoke, and non-standard deals outside OpenAI’s standard product and service offerings. Your portfolio may include strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage early in the deal lifecycle to help shape commercially viable, accounting-compliant, and operationally scalable outcomes. You will establish the accounting posture, identify required contract and product terms, define reporting and control requirements, and ensure that deal economics, billing flows, and revenue recognition remain aligned as the business evolves. This role requires strong technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, executive communication, and the ability to create clarity and ownership in areas where precedent may not yet exist. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own technical revenue account

About the Team OpenAI's Research Team is at the forefront of AI research, pushing the limits of what AI can achieve. Our team is dedicated to developing advanced AI systems that are powerful, safe, and beneficial for everyone. About the Role The Research IP Partnerships team is in need of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) to streamline the integration of our applied research with external strategic partners. This role is critical for synthesizing research from cross functional teams, enabling model deployment, and ensuring new technologies are effectively adopted. You will act as the connection that enables our partners to deploy the most advanced AI models. Your primary focus will be to increase our research velocity and ensure that our deployments are successful and collaborative with our partners. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Build and share a deep understanding of frontier AI model development Partner with internal and external teams to drive deployment of the latest OpenAI technologies Manage critical inquiries from both technical and non-technical partners Design and implement simple, scalable processes that solve complex problems Deliver high-profile pipeline and tooling projects on tight deadlines Work across research and engineering to align goals, streamline communication, and support business priorities You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience in a strategic partnerships and technical program management role Can right-size process to align stakeholders while ensuring speed of delivery (action-oriented) Are fantastic at building cross-functional relationships and having empathy for the many roles involved in deploying research Can design and build tools (via code / no-code / AI) to facilitate internal processes Are a great communicator across written, presentation, and visual forms. Are engaged and c

About the Team The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We’re seeking a Program Manager to lead support readiness and operational programs for OpenAI’s cloud and strategic partnerships. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, Support Delivery, and external partners to translate complex technical and business requirements into scalable customer support experiences. This role will help define how we support customers across partner ecosystems, from launch planning and issue-routing workflows to escalation management and ongoing operational improvements. In this role, you will: Lead support readiness for new and existing cloud and strategic partnerships, including launch planning, operational design, and ongoing program execution. Partner closely with Engineering, Product, go-to-market teams, and external partners to develop support models for technically complex products and integrations. Define partner-specific customer journeys, support workflows, escalation paths, ownership models, and cross-company handoffs. Identify operational and technical risks, align stakeholders on solutions, and drive improvements that strengthen the customer experience. Establish clear success metrics and operating rhythms to monitor partnership health, launch readiness, and support performance. Use AI and automation to improve partner-related support workflows and scale operations effectively. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 8+ years of experience

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Vice President, Digital Partnerships, Fintechs & Enablers- Global Money Movement & Digital Assets Overview Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and innovation, we help individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and governments realize their greatest potential. The US Digital Partnerships, Fintech and Enablers team is responsible for cultivating strategic partnerships and managing relationships across the fintech ecosystem. We work with leading technology companies, ecommerce platforms, financial institutions, modern processors, program managers, and fintech innovators to deliver differentiated solutions, create new payment experiences, and drive mutual growth. Success in this role requires exceptional relationship-building capabilities, executive presence, and the ability to influence stakeholders across complex organizations. In this highly visible, customer-facing role, you will lead Mastercard's relationships with key money transfer organizations, money movement enablers, and digital assets players in the US. You will be responsible for driving strategi

About the Team The New Verticals Business Development team is a small, fast-paced, high-performing group responsible for establishing, managing and scaling new lines of business at DoorDash in the retail and logistics space. You’ll leverage AI-powered insights, data-driven signals, and emerging tools to shape strategy, inform decision-making, identify opportunities, and drive growth across complex, enterprise-level engagements. By integrating AI and data-enabled analysis into day-to-day workflows, you’ll improve prioritization, execution, and business impact while partnering cross-functionally to translate evolving platform and AI capabilities into clear, tangible value for partners and the business. About the Role Your role will be focused on building out a team while managing and scaling enterprise level partnerships in the retail and logistics space. This role will get you in at the ground floor and operate at “start up” pace for one of DoorDash’s fastest and most promising new bets. As Associate Manager, Retail Partnerships you will report into the Senior Manager of Retail Partnerships in our Merchant Business Development organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Manage and cultivate enterprise relationships with leading retailers and ecommerce logistics players that will drive step change growth for DoorDash Lead renewals and upsell opportunities with existing merchant partners Shape product roadmap and go-to-market strategies based on merchant feedback Serve as the liaison between our partners and DoorDash leadership, product, legal, operations, and logistics teams Inform goals for growth and revenue (and its proxies); and advise on associated business resource needs Identify and pursue creative growth opportunities within the Drive organization We’re excited about you because… You have 8+ years experience in early stage business development, account management, client success, or strategic partnerships in technology or

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Revenue Accounting, Technical team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, operationally sound monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish clear accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Manager of Revenue Accounting, Technical to drive the end-to-end technical revenue and operational workstream for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals—from early structuring and deal-desk review through contracting, launch, and ongoing governance. Reporting to the Head of Revenue Accounting, Technical, you will serve as a key revenue advisor for complex and non-standard strategic deals, translating commercial objectives into revenue models that are economically sound, accounting-compliant, and operationally executable. You will partner with senior team members on the most novel or high-risk matters across strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage from the earliest stages of a deal to shape economics, pricing, commercial terms, contract language, and product design; define the supporting data, billing, settlement, reporting, systems, controls, and revenue-recognition model; and drive cross-functional readiness through launch. After launch, you will help govern amendments, monitor whether the model is operating as intended, resolve execution issues, and evolve the approach as the partnership or business model changes. Thi