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Partner Development Manager

Builds and expands reseller partnerships across fleet management, telematics, and VAR segments, owning both new partner acquisition and existing-account growth. Requires 10+ years in partnerships, channel sales, or strategic account management, with strong commercial, negotiation, and executive relationship skills.

About the job

Responsibilities

New Partner Development

  • Identify, prospect, and qualify reseller partners across fleet management companies, telematics providers, and VARs.
  • Build and manage an outbound partner pipeline.
  • Own the full sales cycle for partner agreements, including discovery, pitching, commercial negotiation, legal coordination, and signing.
  • Evaluate prospects based on market fit, geographic fit, program maturity, and pipeline potential.
  • Build executive relationships with prospective partners.
  • Maintain accurate pipeline records in Salesforce or partner-tracking tools.

Existing Partner Growth

  • Manage signed reseller partners from onboarding and enablement through renewal and expansion.
  • Establish and track partner growth targets for assets under management, ARR, and pipeline.
  • Identify incremental revenue opportunities across new segments, use cases, regions, and product attach.
  • Drive partner performance against joint business plans.
  • Support QBRs, joint marketing initiatives, and co-selling motions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Sales to track, support, and close partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities.
  • Understand partner business models, competitive positioning, and channel economics.
  • Represent partner feedback, blockers, and market intelligence to Product, Marketing, and Partnerships leadership.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in partnerships, channel sales, or strategic account management, preferably in B2B SaaS, fleet, telematics, or a related industry.
  • Demonstrated success sourcing and closing new partner agreements and growing revenue within an existing partner portfolio.
  • Strong sales and commercial orientation, including experience with pipeline, ARR, attach rates, and growth levers.
  • Proven revenue growth through third-party partners or resellers.
  • Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder deals, commercial negotiations, and legal or contracting processes.
  • Strong executive presence and senior stakeholder relationship-building skills.
  • Ability to manage a diverse partner portfolio independently and with strong organization.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
  • Experience with Salesforce or similar CRM and partner-tracking tools.
  • Bias toward action, ownership, and proactive growth identification.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Familiarity with fleet management, telematics, or the FMC/VAR reseller landscape.

Benefits

  • Multiple health and dental coverage options, with 100% employee and 50% family coverage.
  • Vision insurance.
  • Incentive stock options.
  • 401(k) match of 4%.
  • Four weeks of PTO, increasing after the second year.
  • 12 company holidays and two floating holidays.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • FSA and HSA options.
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Community service, professional development, and wellbeing funds.
  • Business expense stipend.
  • Mac laptop and new-hire equipment stipend.

Skills

Partnerships, Channel Sales, Strategic Account Management, B2B SaaS, Salesforce, Pipeline Management, Commercial Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Revenue Growth, Account Management, Partner Enablement, Co-Selling

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