Strategic Partner Manager V

Job Title
Strategic Partner Manager V

Job Type
Full-time, 8-month On-Going Contract, W2

Schedule
Monday – Friday, Remote

Job Description
Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key leaders at Wearables Partners and internally, effectively communicating strategic recommendations, influencing outcomes, and providing detailed updates.
• Drive key leadership meetings and effectively communicate strategic recommendations and updates to leadership and stakeholders. Ensure strategic and cross-ecosystems view of key partners in preparation for executive meetings, escalations and deal negotiations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, strategic response, legal, policy, communications, marketing) to ensure preparation for any partner meetings or public engagements with background information, goals, and materials, and to ensure accurate representation of our strategy.
• Develop and manage partnership strategies from deal development to product launches, focusing on growth and delivering results.
• Identify and analyze complex business problems, develop novel 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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. This includes interpreting legal documents and working with attorneys.
• Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, highly organized, and excellent communication skills.

Skills

• Strategic Partnerships
• Partner Management
• Business Development
• Wearables & Devices
• Consumer Electronics
• Deal Negotiation
• Contract Management
• Product Launches
• Executive Stakeholder Management
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Risk Mitigation
• Escalation Management

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Education

• Bachelor's degree