Senior Manager, Slack Ecosystem

. Recruit, onboard, and manage strategic partners across Slack’s platform ecosystem.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeRemote • California, Illinois, New York, Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $172,500 - $260,100 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

Cloud

Key responsibilities & impact

Recruit, onboard, and manage strategic partners across Slack’s platform ecosystem.
Drive adoption of Slack’s platform among companies offering software products and services to businesses.
Identify whitespace where platform gaps exist and develop partner-driven solutions to address them.
Champion creative business models that unlock value for customers while ensuring mutual success for partners.
Own the partner engagement lifecycle: from opportunity identification and initial outreach through onboarding, activation, and GTM readiness.
Partner with stakeholders across Slack product, platform engineering, AI, and GTM teams to align on roadmap gaps and ecosystem leverage points.

What you’ll need

7+ years in business development, strategic partnerships, or platform strategy—ideally in SaaS, AI, developer platforms, or cloud ecosystems.
Proven experience recruiting partners into platform or ecosystem programs and managing those relationships through activation and scale.
Strong product sensibility and comfort with the technical feasibility of partner integrations, including APIs, workflows, agents, and automation.
Familiarity with generative AI, LLMs, MCP (Model Context Protocol), agent frameworks, and the broader AI infrastructure landscape.
An entrepreneurial spirit with a record of sourcing, developing, and maintaining partner relationships in fast-moving markets.
Strong commercial instincts combined with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Exceptional presentation and communication skills, including business case development and partner storytelling.
Ability to structure and analyze the quantitative impact of partnerships on the business.
In-depth experience operating within and leading cross-functional teams (product, engineering, customer success, legal, finance, marketing).
Passion about Slack, our platform, and the role of AI in transforming how teams work.

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Hard Skills & Tools

business developmentstrategic partnershipsplatform strategySaaSAIAPIsworkflowsautomationgenerative AILLMs

Soft Skills

entrepreneurial spiritcommercial instinctspresentation skillscommunication skillspartner storytellinganalytical skillscross-functional leadership