Program Lead, Strategic Partnerships (Cloud / AI / Data) - Remote
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Responsibilities
- Partnership Development
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize strategic partners across cloud, data collaboration, and AI ecosystems
- Optimize time-to-value
- Build and manage a pipeline of partnership opportunities aligned to company priorities
- Develop informed perspectives on ecosystem trends and strategic positioning
- Establish and maintain working relationships with key partners
- Support advancement of opportunities in coordination with senior team members
- Program Ownership & Execution
- Act as program owner for strategic initiatives across partnerships and platform integrations
- Lead weekly partner and internal working sessions and maintain a consistent execution cadence
- Define and manage: Objectives and success criteria
- Timelines, milestones, and deliverables
- Roles, ownership, and accountability
- Drive initiatives through full lifecycle (with leadership guidance):
- concept → alignment → execution → delivery
- Track progress, manage dependencies, and escalate risks as needed
- Ensure initiatives move forward and reach completion
- This role is connected to delivery outcomes, not coordination alone
- Cross-Functional Coordination
- Partner with product, engineering, legal, sales, and marketing teams
- Work with leadership to align stakeholders across a matrixed organization with competing priorities
- Translate partnership opportunities into executable internal plans
- Ensure initiatives are commercially viable, technically feasible, and operationally scalable
- Ecosystem & Strategic Input
- Monitor developments across cloud, AI, and data ecosystems
- Identify gaps and opportunities to inform partnership strategy
- Contribute to development of repeatable processes for sourcing and executing partnerships
- 6+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, program management, consulting, or related roles
- Experience working with cloud platforms, data ecosystems, or AI technologies
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional programs
- Comfortable operating within a large organization while maintaining a practical, hands-on approach (start-up mindset)
- Benefits/Perks:
- Benefits/Perks:
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
- Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays
- Explore all our exciting benefits here: https://myexperianbenefits.com/
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Additional Information
You will sit within Strategic Partnerships and identifying high-impact partnership opportunities while managing the execution of key initiatives across cloud, clean room, and AI ecosystems. You will serve as the program lead for strategic partnerships , ensuring initiatives progress from concept through delivery. This includes managing partner engagement (e.g., InfoSum, Databricks, Snowflake), coordinating cross-functional teams, and maintaining accountability for outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring a high degree of ownership, structured execution, and the ability to operate effectively in a matrixed organization. This is a remote role, reporting to the Vice President Partnerships.
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