Job Title: Strategic Partnerships Manager
Location: Fully Remote
Duration: 12 months Assignment
Shift/Hours: 40hours/week, PST hours
 
Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage large vendor partnerships, coordinating and collaborating with 3rd party vendors and operational counterparts.
• Work closely & effectively with team members and key projects stakeholders, including sourcing, finance, product management, engineering and operations.
• Effectively manage schedule to regularly attend meetings and deliver on accountable work.
• Manage large, multi-year program executions with complex dependencies across multiple teams.
• Own coordination, timeline planning, cross-functional meetings and follow-ups to ensure successful delivery of a complex execution space.
• Design framework & processes to facilitate cross team collaboration.
• Provide support across multiple projects to ensure high-quality releases.
• Work to quickly become well-versed in the engineering teams product/domain space.
• Provide input on requirements from the perspective of an end-user.
• Produce qualitative and quantitative reporting to stakeholders.

Soft Skills & Hard Skills:
Soft Skills:

• Subject expertise in the engineering team’s product/domain space.
• Detail-oriented, highly organized and able to multitask.
• Dynamic and very adaptable to a fast-paced changing environment.
• Able to balance conflicting priorities and negotiate trade-offs across multiple initiatives.
• Communication skills - able to explain complex concepts both verbally and via written communications, including technical concepts.
• Communication skills - able to proactively and effectively communicate goals, updates and deliverables to stakeholders in order to drive outcomes.
• Flexible and adaptable to change.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (influence, empathy, clarity in communication).
• Focused on learning, growing and developing new skill sets.

Hard Skills:

• Proficiency in Google Suite (Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Slides, etc).
• Familiarity with the Identity, Safety and Fraud Management methodologies. 

Type of Experience (Must Haves):

• 6-8 years’ experience being a Partnerships/Vendor and/or Program Manager; driving/leading medium to large cross-functional efforts for Product & Engineering teams.
• Experience with cross-functional programs and navigating challenging stakeholders (influence without authority).
• Experience in large contract negotiations and renewals, working with Legal, Finance, and Sourcing.
• Experience in performance management with partners, vendors, or people management.
• Some experience in Trust, Privacy, Safety, Identity or Fraud.
• Experience working in start-up or fast-paced, do-it-yourself environment.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 100.00/hr.