Senior Manager, Technical Partner Solutions

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Austin, TX · Customer Experience

Senior Manager/Director of Technical Partner Solutions at Braze, responsible for defining the strategic direction and leading the evolution of Braze's technical engagement with Technology (ISV) and Delivery Partners. This role focuses on scaling the ISV function, managing technically complex customer use cases, and building a scalable support framework for partners. The role requires a technical leader to work cross-functionally, understand partner needs, translate them into execution plans, and manage a team of ISV Partner Managers and Partner Technical Advisors. Key responsibilities include defining ISV prioritization, strengthening cross-functional alignment, overseeing program scalability, defining and tracking technical partner KPIs, translating partner needs into roadmap inputs, leading the Technical Partner Solutions function, managing teams, and serving as a senior escalation point for partner-related issues.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Partnerships to define ISV prioritization and execute ISV strategy in alignment with broader business goals at Braze, creating a clear and measurable partner onboarding and integration lifecycle management without sustained product dependency
  2. Strengthen cross-functional alignment with Product, Engineering, and Partnerships to ensure ISV integrations enhance customer value, accelerate product adoption, and support retention
  3. Oversee program scalability, introducing and managing tools and processes such as an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), optimised partner listings, and documentation
  4. Demonstrate a data-oriented approach to define and track technical partner KPIs, such as integration quality (utilization, efficacy), number of new partners, speed to market, time to integration, and technical certification rates
  5. Translate partner product updates, integration expansion requests, and complex customer use cases into actionable roadmap inputs for Product & Engineering

Skills

Required

  • 5–8+ years of experience in technical partner management, solutions engineering, partner engineering, or ISV program management at a SaaS or MarTech company
  • At least 3+ years in a leadership capacity
  • Expert knowledge of APIs (REST, webhooks)
  • Expert knowledge of data integration patterns (ETL/reverse ETL, CDPs, event streaming)
  • Hands-on comfort with data infrastructure tools (e.g., Snowflake, Segment, mParticle)
  • Proven track record of building scalable processes—partner onboarding playbooks, tiered support models, and SLA frameworks—in a high-growth environment managing 100+ integrations
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and introducing structure without slowing innovation
  • Systems thinker with the ability to strategically prioritize competing technical demands (inbound partner requests, integration expansion) with a clear rationale
  • Proven ability to influence and drive cross-functional alignment

Nice to have

  • AI Decisioning Studio
  • Email Deliverability

What the JD emphasized

  • AI Decisioning