Senior Partnerships Manager
What this job can offer you
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Partnership Manager on our Channel Partnerships team.
As a Senior Partnership Manager at Remote, you‘ll be developing and guiding our strategy across various partner verticals to increase pipeline generation through key segments. You‘ll scale existing verticals and explore whole new motions to grow our pipeline generation and build strategic relationships for long term plays.
What you bring
Prior experience in partnerships at HR Tech and/or Payroll related companies
Proficiency in AI tools such as Claude Code and proven track record of automating processes and application building independently
Great judgment making both strategic (what to prioritize) and execution. This is a first line operating role.
Demonstrable, self-driven results that have moved a product in the right direction
Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including across different departments (e.g. business operations, sales, finance, rev-ops etc.) to ensure that we’re satisfying critical business requirements
Proficient in English, both written and spoken.
Bonus: Experience working in a remote environment.
Key Responsibilities
Build and own Remote’s global referral partner motion, with responsibility for the performance and growth of hundreds of high-impact referral partners.
Identify, prospect, negotiate, onboard, and manage referral partnerships across ALL channel partner verticals such as accounting, tax, VC, PE, legal, HR, payroll, broker, finance,, recruiting, and advisory ecosystems.
Define and execute a clear referral partner strategy, including partner segmentation, incentives, enablement, and engagement models.
Act as the internal executive sponsor for key referral partners, owning the relationship from acquisition through activation, growth, and long-term retention.
Design scalable programs to drive consistent, high-quality referrals, including revenue share structures, co-selling motions, and lifecycle management.
Maintain deep product and market knowledge across Remote’s solutions to identify use cases and referral triggers relevant to each partner type.
Collaborate closely with Sales, RevOps, Legal, Finance, Product, and Support to ensure referral partners are effectively enabled and operationally successful.
Partner with Marketing to build referral-focused campaigns, co-branded assets, landing pages, and content that drive partner awareness, engagement, and conversion.
Build and nurture a strong referral partner community where best practices, success stories, and performance insights are shared.
Develop reporting and insights to track referral performance, pipeline influence, revenue impact, and partner ROI.
Continuously optimize referral programs based on data, partner feedback, and evolving market needs.
Represent Remote at industry events, partner events, and community forums, and travel periodically to engage with top-performing partners in person.
Build and own Remote’s global referral partner motion, with responsibility for the performance and growth of hundreds of high-impact referral partners.
Identify, prospect, negotiate, onboard, and manage referral partnerships across ALL channel partner verticals such as accounting, tax, VC, PE, legal, HR, payroll, broker, finance,, recruiting, and advisory ecosystems.
Define and execute a clear referral partner strategy, including partner segmentation, incentives, enablement, and engagement models.
Act as the internal executive sponsor for key referral partners, owning the relationship from acquisition through activation, growth, and long-term retention.
Design scalable programs to drive consistent, high-quality referrals, including revenue share structures, co-selling motions, and lifecycle management.
Maintain deep product and market knowledge across Remote’s solutions to identify use cases and referral triggers relevant to each partner type.
Collaborate closely with Sales, RevOps, Legal, Finance, Product, and Support to ensure referral partners are effectively enabled and operationally successful.
Partner with Marketing to build referral-focused campaigns, co-branded assets, landing pages, and content that drive partner awareness, engagement, and conversion.
Build and nurture a strong referral partner community where best practices, success stories, and performance insights are shared.
Develop reporting and insights to track referral performance, pipeline influence, revenue impact, and partner ROI.
Continuously optimize referral programs based on data, partner feedback, and evolving market needs.
Represent Remote at industry events, partner events, and community forums, and travel periodically to engage with top-performing partners in person.
Practicals
You'll report to: Head of Partnerships
Team: Partnerships
Location: EMEA
Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
Recruiter Interview
Hiring manager Interview
Team Interview
Executive Interview
Bar raiser Interview
Offer + Prior employment verification check
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
The annual salary range for this full-time position is
$80,000—$180,000 USD