Business Development Manager: Technology Alliances
Location:  San Francisco Bay Area, NY Metro or Seattle Metro

Productboard is looking for a talented Business Development executive to join our growing partner organization.  In this role, your goal is to help recruit new technology partners, manage existing ones and accelerate Productboard’s growth by leveraging these partners.

This role is critical to our upmarket growth.  Productboard is on a journey to establish a new category and become the clear market leader.  Technology partners and the partner ecosystem are critical components to our upmarket strategy.  By increasing the number of partners in our portfolio and expanding the role partners play in our overall go-to-market motions, we believe we can establish a repeatable and important revenue stream.  

In a brand new role, we are looking for an entrepreneurial, collaborative, and technically -oriented Business Development leader to manage our technology partners.  We need a Business Development Manager to recruit new partners, enable the Productboard GTM team, develop joint GTM plans and drive growth in our mutual businesses. You’ll define the scope and specifics of the partnership, educate both organizations on the value of the partnership and the specifics of the integration, and execute external go-to-market activities. This will be a critical role for Productboard’s future growth with strong, executive-level visibility. 

This position will report to the Head of Business Development. 

The Role - How You Will Make an Impact

• Work with Product l;eadership to develop an overall platform strategy to leverage technology partners in our platform narrative
• Recruit and manage technology partners to build to our emerging APis. 
• Develop joint GTM plans with partners and the Business Development team that highlight campaigns and track KPI results. 
• Collaborate with Demand Gen, Sales, Services, Success & Product Marketing to refine processes on how to bring partners into sales opportunities and develop new processes when required. 
• Craft compelling content concepts with Marketing to run campaigns with Partners to generate pipeline and share the emerging narrative on how technology partners are a critical part of our platform story
• Continue to enhance strong relationships with our current technology partners to understand their strategic priorities and identify marketing opportunities that might emerge as part of their go-to-market strategy and initiatives. 

You’ll be a great addition to the team if you …

• Have worked in a high growth, fast-paced SaaS company for 5+ years, especially working with Sales, Growth or Business Development teams
• Have a deep intellectual curiosity and love solving problems.
• Experience working with APIs and integrations in a prior role
• Strong communication skills and adept at multiple communication mediums (e.g. verbal, writing and presenting)
• Passion for collaboration with a broad set of cross-functional teammates (aka “a strong team player”) and an ability to drive results from a cross-functional team via influence
• Ability to sell and evangelize a category defining software application
• Well developed sense of humor 
• Creative approach to storytelling and defining experiments to cultivate demand in a nascent market
  
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You can look forward to the following benefits:

💰 Competitive compensation, stock options, company 401k 

📚 A budget for your professional development and ongoing learning 

🏝 4 weeks of paid vacation and paid sick days

💛 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart

🍲 Lunch delivered to your home

🍀 Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-care

🏋 Company contribution to gym and wellness memberships 

🚗 Commuter benefits

🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats abroad 

❤️ Company contribution and access to best-in-class health benefits and your own Headspace membership

About Productboard

Productboard is a customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. More than 5,400 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, 1-800-Contacts, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap.

With offices in San Francisco, Vancouver, Dublin, Brno and Prague, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Tiger Global Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures. 

In January 2022, we closed our $125M Series D round, which put us into the Unicorn category of companies, with a valuation of $1.7B.

• Join at the golden startup age — established stability of a Unicorn with space for individual impact
• You’ll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere, building a whole new category of software
• You can help change the way that products are built all over the world
• We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You’ll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work
• We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and new markets
• We are recognized as one of the hottest tech startups on the market today, named by Forbes magazine and Business Insider as one of the best startup employers to bet your career on and are regularly recognized for our company culture

About our culture

Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:

• People feel empowered, supported, and included
• Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
• Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day

Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, success, and failures. 

Join colleagues who love what they do and who are invested in their work environment and the future of the company. Help shape our company, culture, and product!

Check out our LinkedIn Life page, Instagram profile, and People of Productboard FB page or listen to our People of Productboard podcast for a real feel of what life is like at Productboard.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. It is our aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based upon gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other biascovered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.