Strategic Partnerships Operations Lead

washpost; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Washington Post is seeking a senior operational leader to transform partnership strategies into scalable, repeatable programs. You will align cross-functional teams across product, engineering, legal, finance, marketing, and analytics to deliver launch-ready partnerships and AI licensing initiatives.

You will design governance, implementation playbooks, dashboards, and scalable operating models that reduce risk, accelerate time to market, and support new revenue opportunities in content

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex operational plans for strategic partnerships.
• Ability to translate business objectives into scalable operational plans.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, legal, finance, marketing, data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational planning for strategic partnership launches with roadmaps, governance, milestones, dependencies, and accountability.
• Translate commercial partnership objectives into scalable operational and technical implementation plans.
• Drive cross-functional implementation efforts across Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Audience, Data & Analytics, Advertising Operations.
• Lead technical discovery to identify integration requirements, workflows, data dependencies, and risks.
• Evaluate approaches for new partnership opportunities (AI licensing, content distribution, subscriptions, and emerging revenue models).
• Establish governance processes to manage risks and dependencies across concurrent initiatives.
• Design scalable operating models, playbooks, templates, and documentation standards to improve execution consistency.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Operations management

Partnerships

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Job description

The Washington Post is seeking a senior operational leader to transform partnership strategies into scalable, repeatable programs. You will align cross-functional teams across product, engineering, legal, finance, marketing, and analytics to deliver launch-ready partnerships and AI licensing initiatives.

You will design governance, implementation playbooks, dashboards, and scalable operating models that reduce risk, accelerate time to market, and support new revenue opportunities in content