Growth & Partnerships Manager

Parallelz

$70K — $100K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of experience in the gaming industry in a commercial role (e.g. business development, partnerships, growth)
  • Understanding of the gaming ecosystem
  • Strong quantitative analytical skills
  • Ability to think critically and apply first-principles thinking
  • Interest and willingness to leverage AI in daily tasks
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable navigating the uncertainties in a startup environment

Responsibilities

  • Lead conversations with mobile game developers and publishers from initial contact to deal closure
  • Identify and qualify potential developers through various outreach methods, leveraging AI for efficiency
  • Collaborate with senior leadership to create a developer acquisition strategy and playbook
  • Manage and optimize the commercial operations, including CRM and performance tracking
  • Advocate for developers' needs internally by providing market insights and feedback
  • Represent the company at industry events and maintain visibility in the gaming and ad tech sectors

Benefits

  • Group Retirement Savings Plan with matching
  • Comprehensive health benefits including dental and vision
  • Generous vacation policies
  • Access to leading AI tools and platforms for work enhancement
Full Job Description
About the Role

Parallelz is hiring a Growth & Partnerships Manager to accelerate our go-to-market strategy and commercial expansion. The role works closely with the Founder's Office on both the strategy and the execution: shaping how we reach developers and publishers, and contributing to the broader growth and partnerships agenda.

This is a generalist commercial role with a domain spike in gaming. It's well suited to someone with 2-4 years of experience in gaming, with curiosity about how AI is changing the way Go-To-Market gets done.

What You'll Do
  • Run discovery, qualification, and partnership conversations with mobile game developers and publishers, managing the full pre-deal lifecycle from first touch through signed partner and onboarding handoff
  • Source and qualify developers through outbound prospecting, conferences, referrals, and inbound leads, using AI-first systems to multiply the surface area of account research, prioritization, and outreach personalization
  • Partner with the CEO and VP, Strategy to build a repeatable developer acquisition playbook, including positioning, segmentation, and pricing
  • Build and own the operational backbone of the commercial motion, including CRM hygiene, pipeline reporting, outbound infrastructure, and dashboards that track conversion rates, outreach effectiveness, and pipeline health
  • Be the voice of the developer internally, feeding structured market insights and revenue-backed feature requests back to product and engineering
  • Represent Parallelz across the gaming and ad tech ecosystem at industry events and conferences, and serve as the in-house point of view on what's shifting in the space

Requirements
Must-Haves
  • 2-4 years of experience in gaming, in a commercial-adjacent role (BD, partnerships, growth, UA, publishing, devrel, or product)
  • Working knowledge of the gaming ecosystem
  • Strong quantitative skills
  • First-principles thinking
  • Curiosity about AI and a willingness to use it actively in day-to-day work
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Comfortable with the ambiguity of a startup environment
Nice-to-Haves
  • Background in ad tech, programmatic, or growth/UA
  • Existing relationships with decision makers at gaming studios and publishers
  • Experience as an early commercial or product hire at a startup
  • Technical familiarity with the mobile or web gaming ecosystem

Benefits
Benefits
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation
  • Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision), including Health and Wellness spending account
  • Generous time off policies
  • Access to leading AI tools and platforms

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