
Senior Partner Manager
Vercel
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $216,000 - $270,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own Strategic Partner Relationships: Lead Vercel’s global alliance with key strategic partners and their broader channel ecosystems. Drive long-term success through strong executive and multi-level stakeholder engagement.
- Develop & Execute Strategic Plans: Define and implement annual partner strategies with clear goals, timelines, and milestones. Align cross-functional teams to ensure the partnership is progressing efficiently and harmoniously.
- Building Solutions & Sales Plays: Craft joint go-to-market motions that leverage market trends, product synergies, and whitespace opportunities within partner ecosystems to drive revenue growth.
- Deeply Understand Partner Solutions & GTM Models: Maintain a strong grasp of partner business models, offerings, and strategic objectives to develop compelling joint value propositions and maximize mutual impact.
- Foster Executive Relationships: Build and sustain trusted executive-level relationships between Vercel and its partners, acting as a strategic advisor and connector across organizations.
- Enable Sales & Partner Teams: Lead internal enablement and external field engagement, ensuring that Vercel’s GTM teams and partner sellers clearly understand the value of joint solutions.
- Drive Co-Marketing & Demand Generation: Collaborate with marketing to execute impactful co-branded campaigns, events, and content that generate pipeline and strengthen market positioning.
- Lead Quarterly Business Reviews: Manage internal and partner-facing QBRs to evaluate progress, report on KPIs, and provide data-driven insights around performance, gaps, and new opportunities.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in Sales, Partnerships, or Business Development, preferably in the SaaS or developer tooling space.
- Strong understanding of the developer, modern web, and AI agent ecosystem.
- High technical acumen; capable of speaking fluently with both business and technical stakeholders.
- A proven relationship-builder with the ability to navigate complex organizations and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Strategic thinker who can connect vision to execution and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves to get things done.
- Skilled negotiator with experience owning end-to-end partner deal processes.
- Clear, confident communicator with strong executive presence.
- Results-driven with a knack for uncovering opportunities and driving value for both Vercel and its partners.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- Inclusive Healthcare Package
- Flexible working style - 100% remote, with teammates located throughout the globe
- Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills
- Unlimited PTO - 4 weeks recommended per year. Take time when you need it.
- We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SalesPartnershipsBusiness DevelopmentNegotiationStrategic PlanningDemand GenerationCo-MarketingKPI ReportingValue Proposition DevelopmentGo-to-Market Strategy
Soft Skills
Relationship BuildingStakeholder EngagementCross-Functional CollaborationStrategic ThinkingCommunicationExecutive PresenceResults-DrivenProblem SolvingAdaptabilityLeadership