Partner Engagement Manager, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Onebrief, Inc

$100K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading operational planning in military settings, especially at multi-star headquarters.
  • Advanced military education (e.g., Command and Staff, Advanced Military Studies).
  • Familiarity with military planning exercises and classified software deployment protocols.
  • Ability to expand business presence, particularly in software or technology solutions.
  • Experience in customer support, managing incidents and coordinating with engineering teams.
  • Strong technical skills to effectively use and troubleshoot Onebrief's application.
  • Expertise in navigating government organizations and overcoming bureaucratic challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the entire customer relationship from users to Generals.
  • Drive product adoption until approximately 100% of N35 and N5 plans are utilizing Onebrief.
  • Communicate user needs to the product team and maintain product proficiency.
  • Promote the Onebrief brand image among users and stakeholders.
  • Facilitate expansion to Allies and Partners globally.
  • Support exercises and leverage user observations for product recommendations.
  • Provide face-to-face and remote support to customers and coordinate with product engineering during incidents.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative military software environment.
  • Be part of a growing company with strong backing from venture investors.
  • Work alongside a team of experienced military professionals and technologists.
  • Engage directly with high-level military personnel and decision-makers.
Full Job Description
Required: Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI In person in Joint Base Pearl-Hickam. **Why This Role Exists** As a Partner Engagement Manager at Onebrief, you're the customer's trusted technical partner. You serve as the subject-matter expert, maintaining power-user-level fluency in the platform. You stay current on product updates, translating new releases into practical impact for the specific workflows your customer relies on. You act as the primary line of communication between the customer and Onebrief - as the product evolves, you deliver ongoing, role-specific training to ensure users adopt new capabilities rather than getting stuck on outdated workflows. You bridge the technical gap between engineering and the customer, explaining product behavior in terms their staff can actually act on. **What You'll Do** Core responsibilities: - Clearly communicate user needs to the product team. Maintain a high product proficiency, and excite the customer about each product improvement. - Understand, request, and effectively leverage Company resources to meet the goals of the Company. - Lead or support exercises. - Use your observations of our users to recommend product improvements. - Identify gaps between existing directorate workflows and effective Onebrief usage, then drive adoption through hands-on configuration, user coaching, and workflow optimization. - When responding to incidents (product is unavailable, broken, or not delighting the customer), coordinate with the customer and our product engineering team. - Align your team's efforts to deliver the best customer experience, while coordinating with fellow Partner Engagement Managers to ensure planning and workflows remain synchronized across commands. - Enable expansion and upsell opportunities to Allies and Partners by instilling the Onebrief value proposition. **Minimum Qualifications** - Proven experience in leading operational planning within a military context, preferably at multi-star headquarters. - Exposure to large staff planning, through classical training in Professional Military Education or through service experience - Familiarity and experience with major military planning exercises and the protocols for software deployment on classified networks. - Proven ability to expand business presence within a customer location with emphasis on software or technology solutions. - Experience in customer support, both face-to-face and remote, and capability to respond to incidents coordinating with customers and product engineering teams. - Strong technical skills to master our application, troubleshoot issues and liaise with customers on technical matters. - Proven ability to navigate large government organizations, solve bureaucratic challenges, and deliver successful outcomes. - You hold a current Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI and have the ability to access DOD facilities and installations. **Preferred Qualifications** - **You're technically adept.** You don't need to code, but you do need to be savvy. Can you become a power user of our product and talk engineering with the customer? - **Customers trust you.** You demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, develop rapport, align diverse perspectives, and communicate with clarity and influence. - **You're intense about our mission**. It's a core part of who you are - **You're proactive and adaptable.** You see a problem and get to work. You're comfortable working autonomously or in a cross-functional team, especially in a fast-paced or ambiguous setting - **You communicate clearly, concisely, and candidly.** Our Company relies on you to assess the situation within your account and effectively communicate your assessment and recommendations to inform strategic decisions. **Indicators of Success** This role will evolve as priorities change, but the outcomes below reflect what success typically looks like in the first six months. A successful Partner Engagement Manager will: - Opinion and expertise are valued by the customer and company alike (rapport/trust) - Learns quick, identifies opportunities and drives progress within the account (Forward-leaning/ bias for action) - Open-minded and able to pivot when priorities shift (Adaptability/ Humility)

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