Strategic Partnerships Program Manager

Justworks as a Strategic Partnerships Program Manager, where you'll play a crucial role in turning key partnerships into successful growth opportunities. In this individual contributor role, you'll work closely with the Partnerships and Business Development teams to create coordinated execution plans and measurable business outcomes. You'll serve as the cross-functional quarterback for high-priority partnership initiatives, driving execution from deal development to launch and stabilization. This position requires strong strategic thinking, commercial instincts, exceptional project management, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Serve as the cross-functional quarterback for high-priority partnership initiatives, driving execution from deal development and agreement through launch and stabilization.

You are a strategic, commercially minded operator who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution. You are equally comfortable understanding the business rationale behind a partnership and getting into the details required to make it work

Responsibilities

• Build and manage comprehensive project plans across multiple workstreams, establishing owners, milestones, dependencies, decision points, risks, and success measures.
• Drive coordinated execution across the teams required to bring each partnership to life, creating clarity on responsibilities and holding stakeholders accountable to commitments and timelines.
• You are an exceptional project manager, but your impact goes beyond maintaining a project plan. You understand the objective, ask the questions others haven’t considered, connect decisions across workstreams, and create the clarity and accountability required to move complex initiatives forward

Requirements

• You are comfortable operating without formal authority across teams with different priorities. You build credibility quickly, communicate clearly, hold people accountable, and know when to push for a decision or escalate a risk
• You are also a modern operator who actively uses AI and automation to reduce administrative work, improve visibility, and create more time for problem-solving and higher-value strategic work
• 5-7 years of experience in management consulting, partnerships, business development, strategy & operations, strategic programs, or a related field
• Strong commercial and analytical judgment, with the ability to understand business models, customer journeys, go-to-market motions, and partnership economics
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous strategic or commercial opportunities into structured execution plans with clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, and outcomes
• Strong project and program management experience, with demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives involving senior stakeholders across multiple functions
• Experience working within or alongside Partnerships, Business Development, go-to-market, or strategic growth teams; direct partnerships experience is strongly preferred
• Strong judgment about when structure and process are necessary—and when they are getting in the way of execution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex work into concise executive-level updates, decisions, and recommendations
• Proven ability to anticipate risks, resolve blockers, drive decisions, and maintain accountability across teams without direct authority
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment where the path from strategy to execution may not already be defined
• Experience driving execution across a broad range of stakeholders, such as Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and Support, Revenue Operations, Finance, Legal, and Corporate Strategy

Preferred

• Fluency with AI and automation tools and demonstrated experience using them to improve personal productivity, project management, communication, and information synthesis

USD 121,000 - 151,000