Senior Partner Manager

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build scale and secure a faster more personalized web. As the team behind v0 Next.js and AI SDK Vercel helps customers like Ramp Supreme PayPal and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.

Our mission is to enable the world ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform supporting our customers or shaping our story: You can just ship things.

• Own Strategic Partner Relationships: Lead Vercel’s global alliance with key strategic partners and their broader channel ecosystems. Drive long-term success through strong executive and multi-level stakeholder engagement.
• Develop & Execute Strategic Plans: Define and implement annual partner strategies with clear goals timelines and milestones. Align cross-functional teams to ensure the partnership is progressing efficiently and harmoniously.
• Building Solutions & Sales Plays: Craft joint go-to-market motions that leverage market trends product synergies and whitespace opportunities within partner ecosystems to drive revenue growth.
• Deeply Understand Partner Solutions & GTM Models: Maintain a strong grasp of partner business models offerings and strategic objectives to develop compelling joint value propositions and maximize mutual impact.
• Foster Executive Relationships: Build and sustain trusted executive-level relationships between Vercel and its partners acting as a strategic advisor and connector across organizations.
• Enable Sales & Partner Teams: Lead internal enablement and external field engagement ensuring that Vercel’s GTM teams and partner sellers clearly understand the value of joint solutions.
• Drive Co-Marketing & Demand Generation: Collaborate with marketing to execute impactful co-branded campaigns events and content that generate pipeline and strengthen market positioning.
• Lead Quarterly Business Reviews: Manage internal and partner-facing QBRs to evaluate progress report on KPIs and provide data-driven insights around performance gaps and new opportunities.

• 6+ years of experience in Sales Partnerships or Business Development preferably in the SaaS or developer tooling space.
• Strong understanding of the developer modern web and AI agent ecosystem.
• High technical acumen; capable of speaking fluently with both business and technical stakeholders.
• A proven relationship-builder with the ability to navigate complex organizations and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Strategic thinker who can connect vision to execution and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves to get things done.
• Skilled negotiator with experience owning end-to-end partner deal processes.
• Clear confident communicator with strong executive presence.
• Results-driven with a knack for uncovering opportunities and driving value for both Vercel and its partners.

• Competitive compensation package including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed

The San Francisco CA OTE pay range for this role is $216000.00 - $270000.00.  This OTE range is an estimate. Actual salary will be based on job related skills experience and location. Pay ranges outside San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location.  The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color gender expression or identity sexual orientation national origin citizenship age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

What We Do

From solo developers building their first app to large enterprise teams if it needs to be fast reliable and beautifully built it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web.We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV and we're headquartered in San Francisco.