Strategic Partnership Manager- North America
Blink
🌍 Location: Boston
🤝 Department: Partnerships
💚 Reports to: Head of Global Partnerships
About Blink
80% of the global workforce are frontline workers—yet their digital experience lags far behind. Blink’s employee super-app changes that. We give frontline teams everything they need in the palm of their hand—connecting them to systems, leaders, and each other.
⭐️ See our partnerships in action!
👉https://www.joinblink.com/use-cases/workday
👉 https://www.joinblink.com/intelligence/5-ways-drive-engagement-through-your-workday-integration
👉https://www.joinblink.com/intelligence/blink-workday-employee-experience-platfom-integration
The Role
We're looking for a seasoned Strategic Partnership Manager to lead and own the North America partnership strategy. This is a high-impact role responsible for shaping and scaling Blink’s partner ecosystem in the region, with a focus on HRIS and enterprise technology partnerships. You’ll work cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to accelerate go-to-market strategies, co-sell motions, and technology integrations that drive measurable growth.
What You'll Do
- Accelerate & scale Blink’s North American partnership strategy, aligning with overall GTM and business objectives.
- Identify, recruit, and manage strategic partnerships with key players in the HRIS, HCM, and broader enterprise tech landscape.
- Ownership and growth of the relationship with Workday, ensuring we capitalize on the current platinum partnership opportunity
- Drive joint value propositions, co-marketing, and co-selling initiatives with partners to accelerate customer acquisition and expansion.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams on integration roadmaps, ensuring partner solutions are aligned with Blink’s platform strategy.
- Monitor and report on the performance of partnerships, using data to optimize engagement, revenue contribution, and long-term value.
- Represent Blink at partner events, conferences, and joint GTM activities.
- Act as the internal champion for partners, advocating for mutual success across all touchpoints.
- 6+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, alliances, or business development roles, ideally within the HRIS/HCM or enterprise SaaS space.
- Deep understanding of the HR tech ecosystem, especially platforms like Workday, SAP, ServiceNow, SuccessFactors, ADP, Oracle HCM, etc.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling technology and channel partnerships in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and an ability to execute cross-functional initiatives.
- Excellent communicator with a proven ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Comfortable operating independently and owning a regional strategy end-to-end.
You will have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, and meaningful. Most importantly, you’ll work for a company with a strong purpose, with an ambitious and supportive team embarking on a journey most start-ups can only dream of!
💚 Benefits include:
- A competitive salary
- Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential
- 401(k) A generous plan to help you save for a bright future
- Private health insurance- we'll pay for your medical, dental, and vision coverage
- The ability for you to grow, learn and solve a variety of challenges, working in a supportive environment with smart, talented people.
At Blink, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people feel they truly belong.