Partner Manager, Alliances

Growth Signals; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + early-stage equity

Flexible remote-first culture

Opportunity to work directly with founders

Job summary

Growth Signals in Chicago is seeking a Partner Manager to lead their flagship alliance with a focus on building strategic partnerships. In this essential role, you will drive pre-sales and deliver refined assets that aid client engagements. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in management consulting or a similar high-paced environment, paired with strong analytical and communication skills.

The role offers a unique opportunity to work at an AI-driven startup, contributing to impactful projects while shaping the product and customer strategy.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in a high-tempo environment, like Consulting or VC.
• Track record producing deliverables for senior executives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills with a structured approach.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build deliverables for the partner alliance.
• Drive pre-sales and delivery by coordinating with internal teams.
• Track deals and ensure commitments are met.
• Translate technical inputs into clear partner-ready communications.

Skills

Management Consulting

Investment Banking

Analytical skills

Strong communication

Problem-solving

Organization

Education

MBA from a leading program

Tools

AI tools

Job description

A core tenet of our growth strategyleveragesdeep alliances with leading management consulting firms, who deploy our technology on their most demanding client engagements across practices, industries, and global locations.

We are hiring a Partner Manager to own the day-to-day engine of our flagship alliance. This is a single-partner role by design: you go deep, becoming the strategic, operational, and delivery backbone of the alliance as we grow it across the partner’s global footprint.

You will build platform assets, custom artifacts, and client-specific deliverables that win and grow engagements, working closely with the Head of Alliances. Your support and work will directly fuel new business growth.

It is a hands‑on, high‑craft, high‑visibility role: tactical in daily execution and strategic in its impact.

What You’ll Own

• Build the work that wins. Architect and build platform deliverables such as agents (interactive analytical canvases), workflows, and demos that showcase a coherent strategic narrative. Elicit and derive the core problem statement, then source and structure the underlying research to produce client‑ready walkthroughs. This is the cornerstone of the role.
• Drive the pre‑sales and delivery motion. Partner with internal Growth Signals and alliance teams through the engagement lifecycle: scoping, demo prep, live working sessions, and client presentations.
• Own follow‑up and follow‑through. Track deals in our CRM, deliverables, timelines, and commitments end to end, ensuring nothing slips. Follow up until you have a binary (Yes/No) response.
• Translate between worlds. Synthesize inputs from internal Product, Engineering, and Data Science & AI teams into clear, partner‑ready communication, summaries, and recommendations.
• Close the feedback loop. Gather partner feedback and translate it into platform feature recommendations and rapidly address issues and queries to unblock client delivery.
• Become an independent platform operator. Build mastery in the platform and in context engineering, to eventually own deliverable production and presentation independently.
• Develop assets and playbooks. Build collateral, tutorials, and a library of reusable assets such as training videos that democratize access to the platform, and turn lessons learned across engagements into scalable, repeatable playbooks and best practices.
• Drive trainings and support major events. Independently run trainings and brainstorming sessions with alliance account teams and support major events the alliance plans across geographies — actively driving planning, logistics, and execution.

Required Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in a high‑tempo, deadline‑driven environment: Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity, VC, Corporate Strategy/Development, Enterprise Product, Pre‑Sales, or a comparable startup operating role.
• A track record of producing senior‑executive‑audience deliverables (decks, models, briefs) under tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize multi‑stakeholder input into concise, leadership‑ready output.
• Strong analytical and structured‑problem‑solving skills, and fluency in the language and methods alliance partners expect.
• Strong organization and ownership across multiple concurrent workstreams and deadlines.
• Aptitude and appetite to enhance your context‑engineering skills and become an independent builder on an AI‑driven platform.
• Comfortable interfacing directly with senior external stakeholders and internal leadership.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen, as certain client engagements require it.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior startup or founder experience, a real differentiator. If you’ve lived the high‑growth or early‑stage life, the pace of this role will feel familiar. This is one of the strongest signals we look for.
• An MBA from a leading program is strongly preferred, though equivalent rigor from consulting, IB, PE/VC, or a top‑tier startup is weighed comparably.
• Experience in B2B, enterprise, or professional‑services contexts working with strategic partners or sophisticated clients.
• Familiarity with AI tools, platforms, and context engineering.
• Comfort with data, research, strategic frameworks, modeling, and structured analysis as inputs to client‑facing work.
• Willingness to travel frequently, on short notice.

Additional Requirements

• Location: Based in Chicago (U.S.), or willing to relocate.
• Employment Type: Full‑Time, Permanent.

About Growth Signals

We’re building the future of AI‑driven strategic innovation, and we’re looking for people who are excited to join us at the ground floor. As a seed‑stage B2B startup, we’re on a mission to help teams accelerate discovery, validate concepts faster and scale impact across the organization, and we believe customer obsession is our unfair advantage. As an early member of our team, you’ll shape how we engage, retain, and grow our product & customers.

Our Culture

We’re builders, learners, and problem‑solvers who take pride in delivering real value to our customers. We believe in fast feedback loops, radical transparency, and taking smart bets. If you’re energized by ambiguity, thrive in startup chaos, and care deeply about helping customers succeed, we’d love to hear from you.

Why Join Us

• Shape not just your role, but how we build and scale
• Competitive salary + early‑stage equity
• Flexible remote‑first culture
• Opportunity to work directly with founders and shape product and customer strategy
• Build relationships with innovative customers solving hard problems with AI