Partner Engagement Manager, Joint Staff

Onebrief; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Onebrief, a provider of AI-powered collaboration software for military planning, seeks a mission-driven professional to own multi-star HQ customer relationships. You will drive product adoption, coordinate with Joint Staff users, and steer renewals and expansions with strategic impact.

You have deep experience navigating government environments, excellent communication skills, and a proactive, adaptable mindset to support demanding planners in real-world operations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading operational planning in a military context, preferably at multi-star HQ.
• Advanced military education: Command and Staff, Advanced Military Studies.
• Familiarity with major military planning exercises and protocols for deploying software on classified networks.
• Proven ability to expand software/tech solutions in a regional market.
• Experience in customer support and coordinating incidents with product teams.
• Ability to navigate large government organizations and deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire customer relationship up to Generals/Admirals within the Joint Staff.
• Expand product usage across Joint Staff workflows to maximize adoption.
• Drive renewals and expansions to grow Onebrief annual revenue.
• Communicate user needs to the product team and maintain high product proficiency.
• Support expansions to Allies and Partners and sustain strong customer engagement.
• Coordinate incidents with customers and engineering to restore service.

Skills

Clearance TS/SCI

Operational planning

Customer relationship management

Technical aptitude

Clear communication

Education

Advanced military education

Tools

JWICS

Job description

Consequential Work. Dedicated People.

About Onebrief

Onebrief builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination.

Today, many critical planning workflows still rely on fragmented systems, static documents, and disconnected tools that make collaboration and decision-making unnecessarily difficult. Onebrief brings modern software, AI, and real-time collaboration into those environments, helping teams operate with greater clarity, coordination, and adaptability in situations where decisions carry real-world consequences.

We are a distributed team of builders from military, operational, and technology backgrounds who care deeply about improving how important work gets done. Some team members work remotely, while others work directly alongside customers in operational environments around the world.

Founded in 2019, Onebrief is backed by leading investors including General Catalyst, Battery Ventures, Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Human Capital. Valued at more than $2 billion, we continue to invest in product innovation, AI capabilities, and team growth.

Required: Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI

In person in the National Capital Region

About you

• You love our users, and you want to work with them. This is the single most important requirement. Implementing new software requires the enthusiastic support of our user base — skillful planners, primarily in the grade of O-4 and O-5. You understand them, and they confide in you. Users want you around, and they ask you to have a beer.

• You deeply understand large military headquarters and want to apply that within the Joint Staff. Skillful planners, mainly SAMS, JAWS or SAW graduates in the rank of O-4 to O-6, respect you and care what you have to say. So do Generals and Admirals. You wake up excited each day to navigate the military and political bureaucracy and win over future customers.

• You pay attention to detail. People rely on you. On your previous teams, you had a reputation as a workhorse. Example: we’re about to run a planning exercise, which will be the clients first exposure to our product. No one is worried, because they know you’ve taken care of it.

• You can get things from large government organizations Example: our engineer needs admin access to a system on JWICS, in order to diagnose technical issues. It’s an unusual request, and no one at the customer knows what to do. Everyone tells you it’s not possible, but you love a bureaucratic challenge. You solve the problem with a few phone calls

• You’re technically adept. You don’t need to code, but you do need to be savvy. Can you become a power user of our product and talk engineering with the customer?

• You work well with customers. You demonstrate strong interpersonal skills by cultivating trust, aligning diverse perspectives, and communicating with clarity and influence.

• You’re intense about our mission. It’s a core part of who you are

• You’re proactive and adaptable. Comfortable working autonomously or with cross-functional teams, especially in fast-paced or ambiguous settings.

• You communicate clearly, concisely, and candidly. Our Company relies on you to assess the situation within your account and effectively communicate your assessment and recommendations to inform strategic decisions.

• You hold a current Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI and have the ability to access DOD facilities and installations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading operational planning within a military context, preferably at multi-star headquarters.

• Advanced military education: Command and Staff, Advanced Military Studies.

• Familiarity and experience with major military planning exercises and the protocols for software deployment on classified networks.

• Proven ability to expand business presence within a region, with emphasis on software or technology solutions.

• Experience in customer support, both face-to-face and remote, and capability to respond to incidents coordinating with customers and product engineering teams.

• Strong technical skills to master our application, troubleshoot issues and liaise with customers on technical matters.

• Proven ability to navigate large government organizations, solve bureaucratic challenges, and deliver successful outcomes.

• Most importantly, you are a true Onebriefer:

About the job

Your mission at each major headquarters under your responsibility,

• Own the entire customer relationship, from users up to Generals/Admirals throughout the Joint Force.

• Rapidly expand product usage until ~100% of Joint Staff workflows are in Onebrief. You’ll need a combination of ordinary training and subtler strategies to get our product used as much as possible.

• Win the renewal and expansion, so that your customer(s) keep buying Onebrief each year. Deals should expand over time.

• Clearly communicate user needs to the product team. Maintain a high product proficiency, and excite the customer about each product improvement.

• Instill the Onebrief brand image.

• Enable our expansion to Allies and Partners.

• Your responsibilities aren’t limited to this list! We’re on this great adventure together, and we’ll each do what it takes for the team to succeed.

You will also:

• Lead or support exercises.

• Use your observations of our users to recommend product improvements.

• Provide face-to-face and remote customer support.

• Develop an understanding of customer social dynamics in order to support renewals and future sales.

• When responding to incidents (product is unavailable, broken, or not delighting the customer), coordinate with the customer and our product engineering team.

To succeed, you’ll need a mastery of operational planning at multi-star headquarters. When you speak, do lead planners listen? Do Generals and Admirals?

You’ll also need technical skill. You don’t need to code, but you do need to be savvy. Can you become a power user of our product and talk engineering with the customer?