thewfsgroup - Director of Strategic Partnerships

• You SHOULD Apply to This Role If: • You have extensive experience building strategic partnerships, referral programs, channel partnerships, and business development initiatives. • You naturally think in terms of leverage, ecosystems, and scalable growth channels. • You have successfully built relationships that generated meaningful revenue or opportunities for your organization. • You are an exceptional communicator who can quickly build trust with executives, founders, consultants, agency owners, influencers, and strategic partners. • You have experience building partnership outreach motions, including identifying ideal partner profiles, sourcing opportunities, developing outreach campaigns, and consistently generating meetings with qualified strategic partners. • You have designed, launched, or improved partnership programs and understand how to create incentives, processes, and accountability mechanisms that encourage ongoing partner engagement and deal flow. • You have the ability to not just generate partner deal flow but close deals with new opportunities as well • Bonus points if you have experience building outreach motions to generate podcast & speaking engagements as well to create sales opportunities • Bonus points if you built and managed a partnership program for a marketing or sales agency • You can commit to a quota of a billion dollars in new sales from partnerships... Will settle for a fraction of this ;) • You SHOULD NOT Apply to This Role If: • You prefer highly structured environments where every step of the process is already defined. • You struggle with ambiguity or creating opportunities from scratch. • You prefer transactional selling over relationship-driven business development. • You dislike networking, relationship building, or creating new strategic opportunities. • You are uncomfortable engaging executives, founders, and high-level decision makers. You need constant direction and oversight to perform at your highest level. • You eat your pizza with ranch • You clap at the end of movies or when a plane lands • May be flexible on the last two...