Senior Strategic Partnership Manager

Unity Unity · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Business Development & Sales

This role focuses on managing and executing commercial partnerships, including those related to AI, platform, cloud, and hardware. The Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and closing complex agreements, serving as the day-to-day partner contact, and identifying new business initiatives. The role requires strong commercial acumen, negotiation skills, and the ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own end-to-end commercial execution for major technology partnerships (AI, platform, cloud, and hardware). Draft, redline, and drive to signature complex commercial agreements.
  2. Serve as the day-to-day relationship owner with senior partner counterparts — organizing and leading strategic business reviews, tracking open commercial items, and identifying partnership expansion opportunities
  3. Identify, research, and validate new business initiatives, and partnership opportunities to grow our business
  4. Coordinate operational partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Sales, Biz Ops

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated track record closing complex commercial agreements in a technology company
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with ability to get into details with operational team members and synthesize for C-suite
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong data and commercial acumen, with experience in financial modeling, developing business models, evaluating pricing strategies, or designing KPIs.
  • Comfort operating amidst ambiguity and uncertainty, while managing multiple concurrent workstreams across different partners and deal stages simultaneously

Nice to have

  • Experience in AI or platform technology businesses

What the JD emphasized

  • major technology partnerships
  • complex commercial agreements
  • senior partner counterparts
  • seniority