Brand Partner Marketing Manager

Overview

This opportunity is being shared on behalf of a partner employer, which will handle applications and the remaining hiring steps directly. The hiring company is seeking a Brand Partner Marketing Manager in the United States.

The role is centered on building meaningful cultural partnerships that help a major technology organization strengthen audience connection, expand visibility, and reinforce brand relevance. It blends cultural understanding, creative thinking, relationship management, and cross-functional delivery.

You will spot emerging opportunities across industries, platforms, and communities while making sure every collaboration reflects the brand’s values. This is a senior, high-impact position for a marketer who can turn strategy and ideas into practical programs that deliver measurable impact in a fast-moving environment.

What you'll do

• Design and carry out a partnership strategy that identifies opportunities to improve cultural relevance, deepen audience engagement, and create durable brand value.
• Develop and oversee a strong pipeline of collaborations with influential people, organizations, platforms, and institutions across relevant cultural areas.
• Assess opportunities using criteria such as audience fit, alignment with values, credibility, creative upside, and strategic importance.
• Own partnership programs end to end, from early concepting and positioning through negotiations, creative development, campaigns, events, experiences, and activations.
• Act as the main marketing contact for major external partners and maintain trusted, productive relationships.
• Build persuasive partnership stories and value propositions that clearly show shared objectives and mutual benefit.
• Work closely with internal teams in brand, creative, communications, partnerships, legal, research, and regional functions to deliver initiatives successfully.
• Identify opportunities in areas such as entertainment, sports, design, education, science, arts, and other cultural spaces that can reach priority audiences.
• Create systems for finding, ranking, and managing partnership opportunities across markets and categories.
• Set success measures and review performance using audience insights, engagement metrics, cultural indicators, and brand impact signals.
• Turn market trends and learnings into recommendations that improve future partnership decisions and execution.
• Protect brand integrity by ensuring every partnership aligns with organizational standards, values, and long-term goals.

Requirements

• At least 12 years of experience in brand partnerships, cultural marketing, strategic partnerships, integrated marketing, entertainment marketing, sports marketing, or a related discipline.
• A track record of creating partnerships that improved brand relevance, widened audience reach, or strengthened credibility with important communities.
• Strong cultural awareness and the ability to identify the people, organizations, platforms, and ideas influencing audience behavior.
• Sound brand judgment with the ability to evaluate opportunities for authenticity, strategic fit, creative potential, and long-term value.
• Proven skill in turning early concepts into effective partnership strategies and delivered programs.
• Experience creating campaigns, content, events, experiences, or activations with external collaborators.
• Excellent relationship-building ability, including comfort working with executives, creators, institutions, and varied external stakeholders.
• The ability to explain complex missions and ideas in a way that becomes an appealing and credible partnership opportunity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including confidence influencing senior stakeholders internally and externally.
• Comfort working in highly cross-functional, fast-paced, and ambiguous settings.
• Excellent project management and organizational ability to handle several initiatives, partners, and priorities at once.
• Experience using audience insights, brand research, and performance data to measure results and refine strategy.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive total compensation of USD 374,000 to 415,000, plus equity opportunities.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Retirement savings plan with employer matching.
• Flexible remote working setup.
• Paid parental leave, medical leave, and caregiver leave.
• Flexible paid time off and company holidays.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Meal benefits, office meals, and eligible meal delivery support.
• Relocation help for eligible employees.
• Additional wellness and employee support benefits.

Additional information

Applications are reviewed through the partner company’s own hiring process after an AI-assisted matching step. The shortlist is shared with the hiring employer, and the employer’s internal team manages interviews, assessments, and final decisions.

Your submission may be processed by the intermediary for candidacy evaluation and shared with the hiring employer under applicable data protection principles. The recruitment process may use AI tools to assist with reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, and checking for inconsistencies, but human reviewers make the final hiring decision. You may contact the employer for more information about data handling.