Checkmate

Strategic Partnerships Manager – Marketing Agency Focus

Checkmate

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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About the role

  • **What You’ll Do**
  • Success in this role to both use data and relationships to expand our brand relationships and grow revenue with our existing brand partners.
  • **Partner Development**
  • - Identify, source, and onboard new agency partners (retention, lifecycle, performance marketing, affiliate, email)
  • - Build relationships with account managers at top agencies
  • - Use data to identify high value brands we can optimize and upsell
  • - Develop pitch materials and co-marketing campaigns to support partner acquisition and engagement
  • **Relationship Management**
  • - Act as day-to-day point of contact for agency relationships
  • - Regularly check in with partners to ensure Checkmate is part of client campaigns
  • - Organize trainings, enablement sessions, and strategy syncs with agencies and platforms
  • **Growth & Operations**
  • - Track and report on partner performance, pipeline, and coverage
  • - Coordinate with internal Sales, Ops, and Marketing to support partner initiatives
  • - Help evolve our partnerships playbook and tooling

Requirements

  • **Who You Are**
  • - Loves start-ups and thinks like an owner / founder
  • - 3–6 years of experience in email marketing, partnerships, or growth marketing
  • - Hands-on experience working with or through marketing agencies is required (bonus points for existing connections with Klaviyo/Shopify agencies + DTC e-commerce brands)
  • - Strong analytics and data ability
  • - Strong communicator — able to tell a compelling story and hold your own in agency meetings
  • - High-energy, self-starter mentality — thrives in fast-paced, scrappy startup environments
  • - Comfortable managing multiple relationships and partner needs simultaneously
Benefits
  • **Why Join Checkmate?**
  • - Be part of a team reinventing shopper-brand relationships
  • - Own core parts of a high-leverage GTM motion early in your career
  • - Work with experienced founders and sales leaders
  • - Tons of growth opportunity
  • **Benefits**
  • - Healthcare + dental + vision
  • - 401(k)
  • - 4 weeks PTO + health days
  • - Gym membership reimbursement
  • - US Remote-friendly, with hubs in NYC and LA
  • - Regular offsites and team retreats
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
email marketingpartnershipsgrowth marketinganalyticsdata analysis
Soft Skills
communicationrelationship managementstorytellingself-starterorganizational skills