Strategic Partner Manager V

247Hire; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

247Hire is seeking a Strategic Partner Manager to oversee partnerships in the wearables sector. This external-facing role involves managing product partnerships, ensuring effective collaboration across teams, and executing initiatives with high leadership visibility.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in partner-facing roles within technology and consumer electronics, and possess strong strategic planning and communication skills. A BA/BS is required, with an MBA preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of partner-facing experience in technology consumer electronics industries.
• Highly strategic with experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key leaders at wearable partners.
• Drive key leadership meetings and communicate strategic recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams for preparation of partner meetings.

Skills

Partner-facing experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Communication skills

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Data analysis tools

Job description

Overview

Seeking a Strategic Partner Manager for a wearables partnerships group. In this external-facing role, you will manage highly strategic product partnerships that intersect wearables devices and AI. You will directly manage external partnerships, operating as a “quarterback” to set up, lead, and execute complex cross-organization partner initiatives with high leadership visibility across multiple teams.

As a key member of a cross‑functional team, you will collaborate with Product Marketing, Marketing, Operations, and Product teams to bring new products to market and grow the AI Wearables category. Expertise in relationship‑building and cross‑functional collaboration is essential in maintaining long‑standing relationships with strategic partners and improving programs.

You will inform product strategy by understanding and communicating partner needs, opportunities, and pain points, securing partner support for critical product needs and identifying ways to grow partnerships after initial deal closure.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key leaders at wearable partners and internally, 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 a strategic and cross‑ecosystem view of partners for executive meetings, escalations, and deal negotiations.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams (product, engineering, strategic response, legal, policy, communications, marketing) to prepare for partner meetings or public engagements, providing background information, goals, and materials to ensure accurate representation of our strategy.
• Develop new AI‑automated workflows to enable 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 landscapes, data analysis, and obtaining a holistic partner perspective.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of partner‑facing experience in technology consumer electronics industries, focusing on managing complex deals and partnerships.
• Sound business judgment and experience in prioritizing and triaging partner‑related issues, solution‑finding, and motivating internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly strategic with experience leading cross‑functional teams to orchestrate planning for bringing new products to market and mitigating risks associated with in‑market products, including interpreting legal documents and working with attorneys.
• Creative, resourceful, detail‑oriented, highly organized, and excellent communication skills.
• BA/BS degree.

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, garnering respect, and growing influence inside and outside a product organization.
• Skilled at navigating, understanding, and enforcing contracts.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally for business engagements.