Strategic Partnerships Lead (New York)

Edra Inc

$125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in partner relations or similar role
  • Proven record of generating partner-sourced revenue
  • Experience in a startup environment where partnerships roles are newly established
  • Demonstrated ability to carry and directly manage quotas
  • Familiarity with partner ecosystem mechanics such as deal registration and procurement paths
  • Strong negotiation skills with partner executives
  • Proficient in utilizing AI for enhancing partnership strategies

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the partner relationship, including joint plans and business reviews.
  • Build and establish a co-sell engine from the ground up.
  • Create enablement content and co-marketing efforts to entice partner sellers.
  • Manage commercial mechanics including marketplace transactions and deal registrations.
  • Maintain and report on a partner-sourced sales pipeline with precision.
  • Act as the internal advocate for partners' needs and strategies at Edra.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and significant equity options
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans with full premium coverage in the US
  • Flexible paid time off to promote work-life balance
  • Daily lunch provided in office along with snacks and drinks
  • Stipend available for workspace setup
Full Job Description
The Role

Our product is proven. Now we are focused on distribution: how many enterprise buyers hear about us, and how fast can we run a pilot and convert to enterprise.

Strategic partnerships are the way to get us there, and we haven't built that function yet despite having strong channel relationships. Cloud platforms, technology partners, systems integrators, and private equity firms already sit inside hundreds of our target accounts, with the relationships, coverage, and budget to put Edra in front of enterprises that would otherwise take much longer to reach.

You will own this function - from the executive relationships at the top down to the marketplace mechanics. You will carry the number and build the machine as you go, writing the playbook for the function out of what you make work.

What You'll Do
  • Own the partner relationship end to end: the joint business plan, the operating rhythm, business reviews, executive briefings, and our position in their partner program.
  • Build the co-sell engine from scratch. Map the accounts, map who owns them, and work the partner's field organization one seller at a time until Edra is something they bring into their own deals.
  • Make partners want to sell us through enablement content, joint targeting sessions, mutual events, co-marketing. A partner seller has a hundred things they could pitch; your job is to be one of the few they actually do.
  • Own the commercial mechanics: marketplace transactability, listings, private offers, procurement paths, and the deal-registration machinery that makes the system function.
  • Carry a partner-sourced pipeline number and own it with the same rigor as our direct pipeline.
  • Be the internal voice of the partner at Edra: roadmap feedback, integration priorities, and the work that makes Edra a part of the partner's strategy and not a tool next to it.


What We're Looking For
  • You can point to partner-sourced revenue in dollars, on named deals you personally brought into the funnel (not ecosystem growth, not influenced pipeline, not a healthy scorecard.)
  • You've been the first or only partnerships hire somewhere small, and you've built the motion without partner ops, partner marketing, or other support functions resourced to your team.
  • You've carried a quota, and know what it's like to own a number that doesn't move without your consistent effort.
  • You hunt. You'll work through forty partner sellers to find the six who care, and you can name the ones you converted and what changed their behavior.
  • You know how partner-led revenue actually works: marketplace transactability, private offers, deal registration, procurement paths, and how a partner seller gets paid.
  • You hold a room with partner executives on your own. You can write the case for why a partner should work with us, then go execute it.
  • You use AI thoughtfully and intentionally in your own work and have a view on what it's doing to how enterprises buy.


Bonus Points
  • You've stood up a cloud marketplace listing from zero and know why that's harder than it sounds.
  • You deeply understand the AI technology landscape and where Edra adds value, and how to position it in a way to customers within their current stack.
  • You've sold to customers with cloud committed spend to burn, and learned to position against it.
  • You've worked somewhere partner-led revenue was a reported line rather than an aspiration.


Don't check every box? We'd still love to hear from you. We're looking for exceptional people with unique skills and interests, and we know that great people have different backgrounds and skillsets.

Learn More About Edra
  • Watch our Series A announcement video
  • Read our blog post from our launch
  • Learn more about what we're building


Compensation & Benefits

Edra offers generous compensation and benefits in both New York & London:
  • Competitive base salary & meaningful equity
  • Top tier health, dental, & vision plans:
    • Top plans with 100% premium coverage in the US (and a One Medical membership)
    • Private medical & dental coverage in the UK
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Lunch provided in office most days, snacks & drinks too
  • A stipend to set up your workspace


A Few Details

We work together in person five days a week from our offices in the West Village (New York) and Holborn (London).

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