Bluestaq US External - Senior Partner Development Manager, Global Data Marketplace
Requirements
• Partnerships Experience: Proven track record in B2B partnerships, vendor/supplier management, business development, or data ecosystem roles. • Data Market Fluency: Familiarity with commercial data markets such as geospatial, weather, OSINT, maritime, financial, or adjacent domains. • Data Market Fluency: • Marketplace Acumen: Understanding of marketplace or platform business models and two-sided market dynamics. • Marketplace Acumen: • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to pitch a Series A data startup as comfortably as you negotiate terms with a large aggregator. • Communication: • Pipeline Discipline: Ability to manage 20–40 concurrent vendor relationships with strong follow-through and attention to detail. • Pipeline Discipline: • Government Context: Comfort navigating government procurement sensitivities and data licensing frameworks. • Government Context: • Tools: Proficiency with CRM and pipeline tools such as Salesforce or monday.com, plus the Microsoft Office Suite. • Tools: • Self-Direction: Highly autonomous and adaptable, with the ability to manage ambiguity and evolving priorities. • Self-Direction: • Travel: Willingness to travel as needed for vendor meetings and industry events. • Travel: • Active U.S. security clearance, or eligibility to obtain a TS/SCI clearance. • Prior experience at a data marketplace, data exchange, or data broker such as Maxar, AWS Data Exchange, Planet, Palantir Marketplace, or Qualtrics. • Familiarity with government data licensing and contracting vehicles, including GovCloud-compatible licensing, IDIQ/GWAC data CLINs, and OTAs. • Existing network within the defense and intelligence community data ecosystem. • Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Data Science, or a related field and 4+ years of partnerships, business development, or vendor management experience, OR • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Data Science, or a related field and 6+ years of partnerships, business development, or vendor management experience, OR • Associate degree in a related field and 8+ years of partnerships, business development, or vendor management experience, OR • High School Diploma/GED and 10+ years of partnerships, business development, or vendor management experience. • Variable Compensation: This role is eligible for a performance-based incentive plan tied to measurable objectives (MBO). Targets include vendor onboarding volume, time-to-activation, catalog coverage across priority data domains, and overall marketplace growth. The plan rewards expanding the depth and range of the GDM ecosystem rather than individual sales transactions.
Responsibilities
• Vendor Sourcing & Prospecting: Identify and target data providers across priority domains, including geospatial, SIGINT, weather, maritime, identity intelligence, logistics, and cyber threat intelligence, based on catalog gaps and customer demand signals. • Vendor Sourcing & Prospecting: • Outreach & Pitch: Initiate and lead outreach to prospective vendors, articulating the GDM value proposition to providers ranging from emerging startups to large data aggregators. • Outreach & Pitch: • Onboarding Ownership: Own the full vendor acquisition lifecycle, from first contact through agreement negotiation, technical onboarding, and first transaction. • Onboarding Ownership: • Relationship Management: Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with onboarded vendors, serving as their primary point of contact and internal advocate at Bluestaq. • Relationship Management: • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, legal, and engineering teams to streamline onboarding and reduce time-to-live for new vendors. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: • Demand Alignment: Work closely with the GDM customer-facing sales team to understand demand gaps and prioritize vendor recruitment accordingly. • Demand Alignment: • Pipeline Reporting: Track and report on key metrics, including vendor prospects, activation rates, time-to-onboard, and catalog coverage by domain. • Pipeline Reporting: • Market Awareness: Monitor the competitive data marketplace landscape to identify emerging vendors, domain trends, and gaps in the catalog. • Market Awareness: • Industry Representation: Represent GDM at industry events and partnership forums, such as the GEOINT Symposium, AFCEA, and data exchange working groups. • Industry Representation:
Benefits
• Every vendor you bring onto GDM expands what an operator, analyst, or decision-maker can access at the speed the mission demands. The depth and range of the catalog you build directly shapes the value GDM delivers to national security customers and allied partners. This is a role with real ownership and visibility, and significant room to grow as the program scales. If you like building ecosystems, opening doors, and turning a strong platform into one customers can't do without, this is your opportunity. • $140,000—$180,000 USD • Clearance Requirement: This position may require the ability to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance. To be eligible for a security clearance, U.S. citizenship is required, and an employee must agree to participate in a background screen and credit check. Eligibility for a TS/SCI Clearance will be assessed as part of the onboarding process or based on programmatic needs. • Clearance Requirement: • We're engineers, problem-solvers, and builders who take the mission seriously, but not ourselves. We automate the repeatable, question the status quo, and design systems that are as reliable as they are scalable. Whether we're supporting space, defense systems, or healthcare advancements, we build with the same principles: cloud-native solutions, security by design, and relentless simplicity. • Relocation: This position does not offer relocation. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense. • Relocation: • Date the Position Closes: Applications will be accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date, or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.
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