
Senior Business Development Manager – Strategic & Embedded Partnerships
Modulate
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue targets across key sales channels
- Build and scale embedded API-led partnerships, including design-win development
- Identify and close strategic platform deals across CCaaS, AI, and security ecosystems
- Act as the deal lead across complex, multi-party sales cycles (Modulate + partner + enterprise customer)
- Drive co-sell motions with partners, including hyperscalers, ISVs, and services firms where relevant
- Expand within partner customer bases by identifying high-value use cases and embed opportunities
- Lead partner workshops from discovery through prototyping and MVP design for white-label and embedded solutions
- Structure and negotiate commercial agreements, including usage-based and consumption pricing models
- Drive adoption through cloud and API marketplaces (where applicable)
- Build repeatable partner use cases (fraud detection, trust and safety, transcription at scale)
- Cross functional collaboration working with engineering, product development/marketing, sales and the executive team essential
- Support partner-driven pipeline development through joint campaigns, events, and targeted GTM efforts
Requirements
- 12+ years in both PLG and platform led business development, partnerships, or enterprise sales in SaaS, AI, or cloud platforms
- Technical working knowledge of AI architecture
- A true hunter mindset, you create and close opportunities within partner ecosystems, not just manage relationships
- Proven track record of scaling partner revenue from early-stage to a meaningful growth driver, building programs from the ground up
- Experience building API-first, embedded partnerships that translate into measurable revenue and adoption
- Deep experience working across partner types, including platforms, ISVs, and cloud ecosystems
- Strong understanding of co-sell execution and navigating multi-stakeholder deal cycles
- Experience leading technical and commercial workshops from discovery through MVP
- Fluency in AI / SaaS, with the ability to translate technical capabilities into clear business value
- Strong operational discipline around pipeline management, forecasting, and partner tracking
- Executive presence with the ability to engage both technical teams and senior business leaders
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO, with a strong culture of taking it
- Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations
- Hybrid work: core in-office days with flexible remote options
- Regular leadership and industry learning sessions
- Support for career development and continued learning Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy
- A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
API developmentAI architectureSaaScloud platformscommercial agreementspipeline managementforecastingpartner trackingembedded partnershipsco-sell execution
Soft Skills
hunter mindsetcross functional collaborationexecutive presencenegotiationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingrelationship managementworkshop facilitation