Senior Partner Manager - Technology Partnerships

Chainguard; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & remote-first culture

Equity with stock options

100% covered health insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave: 18 weeks

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking a Senior Partner Manager on the Technology Partnerships team to own the integrations program—from evaluation and scoping to certification and ongoing maintenance.

You will drive the integration roadmap, coordinate across partner engineering, Product, and Solutions Engineering, and manage partner relationships from initial conversation to launch and beyond. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Alliances.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in technology partnerships or related fields.
• Ability to scope integrations and manage end-to-end programs without building code.
• Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with partner agreements and commercial terms with Legal.

Responsibilities

• Own the partner integrations program: evaluation, scoping, certification, and maintenance.
• Prioritize the integration roadmap against demand, feasibility, and strategy.
• Run the end-to-end program: intake, qualification, scoping, agreements, build, launch, lifecycle.
• Drive integrations across partner engineering, Product, and Solutions Engineering.
• Own partner relationships, including reviews and timelines.
• Work with Legal on partner agreements and data access terms.
• Track health of the integration portfolio and flag stalled work.
• Bring partner requirements to Product to inform the roadmap.
• Coordinate launches with Alliances, Product Marketing, and field.

Skills

Technology partnerships

Partner management

Integration program management

Communication

Travel readiness

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud native infrastructure

Vulnerability scanners

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The Role, In a Nutshell

As a Senior Partner Manager on our Technology Partnerships team, you will own the Chainguard integrations program: how we evaluate, scope, certify, and maintain integrations, and how we prioritize them against customer demand and company strategy. You will drive that work across partner engineering, Product, and a dedicated Solutions Engineer, and you will be the person partners work with from first conversation through launch.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Alliances.

What You'll Do

• Own the technology partner integrations program, including the standards for how integrations are evaluated, scoped, certified, and maintained
• Own the integration roadmap and prioritize it against customer demand, technical feasibility, and company strategy
• Run the program end to end: partner intake, qualification, scoping, agreements, build coordination, certification, launch, and ongoing lifecycle
• Drive integrations to completion across partner engineering, Chainguard Product, and Solutions Engineering
• Own the partner relationship on the integration side, including joint reviews and accountability to committed timelines
• Work with Legal on partner agreements and the terms that govern partner access to Chainguard data
• Track the health of the integration portfolio and elevate what is stalled or degraded
• Bring partner requirements back to Product with the context needed to inform the roadmap
• Coordinate integration launches with Alliances, Product Marketing, and the field

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years in technology partnerships, partner management, integration program management, or partner solutions
• Technical enough to scope an integration and evaluate a partner's proposed design. This role does not build or test, but you should not depend on others to know where a program stands
• Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and cloud native infrastructure
• Familiarity with vulnerability management tooling and how scanners work
• Program management experience. You have taken ambiguous, multi-stakeholder work and given it a process and an owner
• Experience with partner agreements and commercial terms alongside Legal
• Experience in a technology partner ecosystem, and an understanding of how ISVs decide where to invest
• Ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time

Bonus Experience

• Experience at a security vendor building a scanner, CNAPP, or vulnerability management product
• Experience building a partner certification or technical partner program
• Familiarity with coordinated vulnerability disclosure

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A Few Of The Benefits We Offer

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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