Senior Partnerships Manager

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as aSenior Partnership Manager on our Channel Partnerships team.

As a Senior Partnership Manager at Remote, you‘ll be developing and guiding our strategy across various partner verticals to increase pipeline generation through key segments. You‘ll scale existing verticals and explore whole new motions to grow our pipeline generation and build strategic relationships for long term plays.

What you bring

• Prior experience in partnerships at HR Tech and/or Payroll related companies
• Proficiency inAI tools such as Claude Code and proven track record of automating processes and application building independently
• Great judgment making both strategic (what to prioritize) and execution. This is a first line operating role.
• Demonstrable, self-driven results that have moved a product in the right direction
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including across different departments (e.g. business operations, sales, finance, rev-ops etc.) to ensure that we’re satisfying critical business requirements
• Proficient in English, both written and spoken.
• Bonus: Experience working in a remote environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and own Remote’s global referral partner motion, with responsibility for the performance and growth of hundreds of high-impact referral partners.
• Identify, prospect, negotiate, onboard, and manage referral partnerships across ALL channel partner verticals such as accounting, tax, VC, PE, legal, HR, payroll, broker, finance,, recruiting, and advisory ecosystems.
• Define and execute a clear referral partner strategy, including partner segmentation, incentives, enablement, and engagement models.
• Act as the internal executive sponsor for key referral partners, owning the relationship from acquisition through activation, growth, and long-term retention.
• Design scalable programs to drive consistent, high-quality referrals, including revenue share structures, co-selling motions, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain deep product and market knowledge across Remote’s solutions to identify use cases and referral triggers relevant to each partner type.
• Collaborate closely with Sales, RevOps, Legal, Finance, Product, and Support to ensure referral partners are effectively enabled and operationally successful.
• Partner with Marketing to build referral-focused campaigns, co-branded assets, landing pages, and content that drive partner awareness, engagement, and conversion.
• Build and nurture a strong referral partner community where best practices, success stories, and performance insights are shared.
• Develop reporting and insights to track referral performance, pipeline influence, revenue impact, and partner ROI.
• Continuously optimize referral programs based on data, partner feedback, and evolving market needs.
• Represent Remote at industry events, partner events, and community forums, and travel periodically to engage with top-performing partners in person.
• Build and own Remote’s global referral partner motion, with responsibility for the performance and growth of hundreds of high-impact referral partners.
• Identify, prospect, negotiate, onboard, and manage referral partnerships across ALL channel partner verticals such as accounting, tax, VC, PE, legal, HR, payroll, broker, finance,, recruiting, and advisory ecosystems.
• Define and execute a clear referral partner strategy, including partner segmentation, incentives, enablement, and engagement models.
• Act as the internal executive sponsor for key referral partners, owning the relationship from acquisition through activation, growth, and long-term retention.
• Design scalable programs to drive consistent, high-quality referrals, including revenue share structures, co-selling motions, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain deep product and market knowledge across Remote’s solutions to identify use cases and referral triggers relevant to each partner type.
• Collaborate closely with Sales, RevOps, Legal, Finance, Product, and Support to ensure referral partners are effectively enabled and operationally successful.
• Partner with Marketing to build referral-focused campaigns, co-branded assets, landing pages, and content that drive partner awareness, engagement, and conversion.
• Build and nurture a strong referral partner community where best practices, success stories, and performance insights are shared.
• Develop reporting and insights to track referral performance, pipeline influence, revenue impact, and partner ROI.
• Continuously optimize referral programs based on data, partner feedback, and evolving market needs.
• Represent Remote at industry events, partner events, and community forums, and travel periodically to engage with top-performing partners in person.

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$80,000 - $180,000 USD

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook atremote.com/r/benefits . As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async .

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.