Strategic Partner Manager

Payrate

Payrate: $85.00 - $90.00/hr.

As a Strategic Partner Manager, you will be responsible for building and maintaining strategic relationships with key leaders at Wearables Partners and internally. You will communicate strategic recommendations, influence outcomes, and provide detailed updates. The role involves driving key leadership meetings and ensuring a strategic and cross-ecosystems view of key partners in preparation for executive meetings, escalations, and deal negotiations.

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key leaders at Wearables Partners and internally.
• Drive key leadership meetings and effectively communicate strategic recommendations and updates to leadership and stakeholders.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, strategic response, legal, policy, communications, marketing) to ensure preparation for any partner meetings or public engagements.
• Develop and manage partnership strategies from deal development to product launches, focusing on growth and delivering results.
• Identify and analyze complex business problems, develop client solutions, and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Mitigate risks, manage escalations to internal and external executives, and identify opportunities through mapping partner landscape, data analysis, and gaining a holistic partner perspective.

• 8 years of experience in a partner-facing role in technology consumer electronics industries, with a focus on managing complex deals and partnerships.
• Sound business judgment and experience prioritizing and triaging partner-related issues, solution-finding, and motivating internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly strategic and experienced in leading cross-functional teams to orchestrate planning to bring new products to market and mitigate risks associated with in-market products.
• Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, highly organized, and excellent communication skills.
• BA/BS Degree.

• MBA degree.
• Business experience in consumer electronics, accessories and devices partnerships, partner management, consulting.
• Strong technical competence or tech‑curious and motivated to learn.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and experience developing strong working relationships, garner respect, and grow influence inside and outside a product organization.
• Skilled at navigating, understanding, and enforcing contracts.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally for business engagements.

The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $85.00 - $90.00/hour
. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages.

Packages may include:

• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment
• 10 paid days off
• 3 days paid bereavement leave
• 401(k) plan participation with employer match
• Life and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Dependent care flexible spending account
• Accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Hospital indemnity insurance
• Accommodations and reimbursement for work travel
• Discretionary performance or recognition bonus

Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.

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