Director of Strategic Partnerships

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Circle

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Circle is an all-in-one community platform designed for creators, brands, and startups to build, engage, and monetize their communities. It integrates tools for discussions, events, courses, and membership management into a seamless experience under one customizable brand. Circle offers features such as live streaming, gamified rewards, member directories, and extensive integrations with existing tools, allowing users to create private spaces, automate workflows, and manage payments. This platform is ideal for building different types of communities including customer, course, and coaching groups, providing a space for collaboration, interaction, and growth.

📋 Description

• Own Circle's partnerships strategic planning and roadmap • Drive the function's contribution to new business and agreed performance goals • Build repeatable partnership programs and playbooks for webinars, challenges, creator campaigns, launches, and event activations • Develop quarterly and annual partnership plans across creator partnerships, strategic relationships, campaigns, launches, and events • Lead high-value creator and strategic partnerships, including relationship development, opportunity identification, deal strategy, negotiation, creative direction, and long-term growth • Shape content and creative strategy for major partnerships • Develop offer strategy, audience journeys, conversion opportunities, and joint value creation • Develop measurement frameworks for brand activities and partnership investments • Establish measurement, reporting, and decision-making frameworks • Support cross-functional teams on content-forward initiatives • Build the partnerships function's systems, team, and operating model • Collaborate with founders, leadership, Community Growth, Media, Demand Generation, Product Marketing, and Design Studio teams • Report to the SVP, Ecosystem

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English (CEFR C2 or equivalent) • 10+ years of experience building 6-7 figure strategic partnerships, creator programs, brand initiatives, or strategic growth programs • Experience within SaaS, technology, the creator economy, or a similarly fast-moving industry • Strong business development skills, including pipeline management, negotiation, partner development, and cross-functional project management • Performance marketing instincts and understanding of partnerships-driven brand value and measurable business outcomes • Deep understanding of Circle's customers, the creator economy, and the broader market • Experience developing and growing high-value relationships, including deal structure, negotiation, partner dynamics, and long-term opportunity • Exceptional content and creative instincts • Ability to connect brand strategy and performance across storytelling, offers, funnels, campaigns, and distribution • Track record of turning one-off initiatives into scalable programs, systems, and playbooks • Strong strategic planning skills and in-depth knowledge of the partnerships function and Circle's business strategy • Experience managing and developing a team through senior managers or managers-of-managers • Strong cross-functional leadership and ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in the company with ongoing refresh grants • 35 days of paid time off each year • Remote-only work with flexibility and autonomy • Twice-yearly company retreats in destinations around the world • Benefits package supporting health, wellbeing, and professional growth • 15% annual bonus

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