Partner Manager, Alliances

Growth Signals

$90K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7+ years in a fast-paced environment like Management Consulting, Investment Banking, or a similar role.
  • Proven experience creating high-quality deliverables for senior executives.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to condense information for leadership.
  • Robust analytical and structured problem-solving abilities relevant in alliance contexts.
  • Excellent organizational skills, managing multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Eagerness to develop skills in context engineering on an AI platform.
  • Ability to engage with senior stakeholders internally and externally.
  • U.S. Citizenship required for certain client work.

Responsibilities

  • Build deliverables that resonate with client needs and strategic narratives.
  • Drive engagement processes including scoping, demos, and presentations.
  • Manage project timelines and commitments diligently.
  • Synthesize insights from internal teams for effective communication with partners.
  • Collect partner feedback and recommend platform enhancements.
  • Achieve independence in producing and presenting project deliverables.
  • Create training materials and reusable assets to foster platform accessibility.
  • Facilitate trainings and organize alliance events across locations.

Benefits

  • Full-time, permanent position in a dynamic environment.
  • Opportunity to work closely with leading management consulting firms.
  • Chance to influence and grow within a strategic alliance framework.
  • Role involves high visibility and direct impact on new business growth.
  • Access to resources for developing personal skills and career trajectory.
Full Job Description
A core tenet of our growth strategy leverages deep alliances with leading management consulting firms, who deploy our technology on their most demanding client engagements across practices, industries, and global locations.

We are hiring a Partner Manager to own the day-to-day engine of our flagship alliance. This is a single-partner role by design: you go deep, becoming the strategic, operational, and delivery backbone of the alliance as we grow it across the partner's global footprint.

You will build platform assets, custom artifacts, and client-specific deliverables that win and grow engagements, working closely with the Head of Alliances. Your support and work will directly fuel new business growth.

It is a hands-on, high-craft, high-visibility role: tactical in daily execution and strategic in its impact.

What You'll Own

  • Build the work that wins. Architect and build platform deliverables such as agents (interactive analytical canvases), workflows, and demos that showcase a coherent strategic narrative. Elicit and derive the core problem statement, then source and structure the underlying research to produce client-ready walkthroughs. This is the cornerstone of the role.
  • Drive the pre-sales and delivery motion. Partner with internal Growth Signals and alliance teams through the engagement lifecycle: scoping, demo prep, live working sessions, and client presentations.
  • Own follow-up and follow-through. Track deals in our CRM, deliverables, timelines, and commitments end to end, ensuring nothing slips. Follow up until you have a binary (Yes/No) response.
  • Translate between worlds. Synthesize inputs from internal Product, Engineering, and Data Science & AI teams into clear, partner-ready communication, summaries, and recommendations.
  • Close the feedback loop. Gather partner feedback and translate it into platform feature recommendations and rapidly address issues and queries to unblock client delivery.
  • Become an independent platform operator. Build mastery in the platform and in context engineering, to eventually own deliverable production and presentation independently.
  • Develop assets and playbooks. Build collateral, tutorials, and a library of reusable assets such as training videos that democratize access to the platform, and turn lessons learned across engagements into scalable, repeatable playbooks and best practices.
  • Drive trainings and support major events. Independently run trainings and brainstorming sessions with alliance account teams and support major events the alliance plans across geographies - actively driving planning, logistics, and execution.

Required Qualifications

  • 4-7+ years in a high-tempo, deadline-driven environment: Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity, VC, Corporate Strategy/Development, Enterprise Product, Pre-Sales, or a comparable startup operating role.
  • A track record of producing senior-executive-audience deliverables (decks, models, briefs) under tight deadlines.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to synthesize multi-stakeholder input into concise, leadership-ready output.
  • Strong analytical and structured-problem-solving skills, and fluency in the language and methods alliance partners expect.
  • Strong organization and ownership across multiple concurrent workstreams and deadlines.
  • Aptitude and appetite to enhance your context-engineering skills and become an independent builder on an AI-driven platform.
  • Comfortable interfacing directly with senior external stakeholders and internal leadership.
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen, as certain client engagements require it.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior startup or founder experience, a real differentiator. If you've lived the high-growth or early-stage life, the pace of this role will feel familiar. This is one of the strongest signals we look for.
  • An MBA from a leading program is strongly preferred, though equivalent rigor from consulting, IB, PE/VC, or a top-tier startup is weighed comparably.
  • Experience in B2B, enterprise, or professional-services contexts working with strategic partners or sophisticated clients.
  • Familiarity with AI tools, platforms, and context engineering.
  • Comfort with data, research, strategic frameworks, modeling, and structured analysis as inputs to client-facing work.
  • Willingness to travel frequently, on short notice.

Additional Requirements

  • Location: Based in Chicago (U.S.), or willing to relocate.
  • Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent.

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