Strategic Partnerships Program Lead

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Wellness program

Company retreats

Job summary

Justworks is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Program Manager in New York City to translate complex partnership opportunities into coordinated execution plans. You will work closely with Partnerships and Business Development to drive initiative outcomes, design customer journeys, and enable product and marketing collaboration.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage risks, and apply AI-driven automation to streamline updates and status reporting.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in management consulting, partnerships, business development, strategy & operations.
• Strong project and program management experience, with demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives involving senior stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Experience working within or alongside Partnerships, Business Development, go-to-market, or strategic growth teams; direct partnerships experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous strategic or commercial opportunities into structured execution plans with clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Experience driving execution across a broad range of stakeholders, such as Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and Support, Revenue Operations, Finance, Legal, and Corporate Strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex work into concise executive-level updates, decisions, and recommendations.
• Strong judgment about when structure and process are necessary—and when they are getting in the way of execution.
• Fluency with AI and automation tools and demonstrated experience using them to improve personal productivity, project management, communication, and information synthesis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the cross-functional quarterback for high-priority partnership initiatives, driving execution from deal development and agreement through launch and stabilization.
• Partner closely with Partnerships and Business Development leaders to understand the strategic and commercial objectives of each opportunity and translate them into clear execution plans.
• Build and manage comprehensive project plans across multiple workstreams, establishing owners, milestones, dependencies, decision points, risks, and success measures.
• Drive coordinated execution across the teams required to bring each partnership to life, creating clarity on responsibilities and holding stakeholders accountable to commitments and timelines.
• Anticipate dependencies and risks, remove blockers, and drive the decisions and tradeoffs required to keep initiatives moving.
• Connect decisions across workstreams, ensuring changes in one part of the business are understood and addressed across the broader initiative.
• Establish effective operating rhythms for each initiative, bringing together the right stakeholders at the right moments while avoiding unnecessary meetings and process.
• Maintain a clear, current view of initiative health and provide concise, decision-oriented updates to stakeholders and senior leaders across Partnerships, Revenue, Product, Marketing, etc. on progress, risks, dependencies, and next steps.
• Use AI and automation to improve how you manage complex initiatives—including maintaining project and workstream status, synthesizing information across teams, identifying risks and overdue dependencies, preparing meeting materials, and drafting recurring stakeholder and executive updates.
• Capture learnings from launches and develop repeatable approaches that improve how Justworks executes complex partnerships over time.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Partnerships experience

Executive communication

Analytical judgment

Go-to-market

Stakeholder management

AI and automation

Job description

Justworks is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Program Manager in New York City to translate complex partnership opportunities into coordinated execution plans. You will work closely with Partnerships and Business Development to drive initiative outcomes, design customer journeys, and enable product and marketing collaboration.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage risks, and apply AI-driven automation to streamline updates and status reporting.