Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, and manage relationships with AI vendors and LLM providers, including OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Perplexity, and other relevant platforms.
• Own the full partnership lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, relationship strategy, deal structuring support, activation planning, ongoing partner management, and performance measurement.
• Translate partner capabilities, commercial models, and platform opportunities into practical marketing and business recommendations for internal stakeholders.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Procurement, Technology, Product, and Marketing to structure external partnerships around mutual value, regulatory fit, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain clear partner plans, success metrics, executive updates, and operating routines that keep partnership work aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Identify and evaluate strategic partnership opportunities that expand distribution, strengthen customer engagement, and support acquisition, engagement, retention, and brand objectives.
• Lead exploration of embedded finance opportunities with fintech, digital platforms, marketplaces, and other ecosystem partners where Ally products, experiences, or offers can be integrated into relevant customer journeys.
• Develop partnership opportunity assessments that define target audiences, strategic rationale, partner value exchange, commercial considerations, operational requirements, and expected business impact.
• Coordinate cross-functional activation plans for approved partnerships, including positioning, customer experience considerations, launch readiness, measurement plans, and post-launch optimization.
• Establish clear governance routines for priority partnerships, including stakeholder alignment, decision forums, issue escalation, partner communications, and leadership updates, in partnership with Marketing Operations

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing or Business
• 7+ years of professional experience in a marketing or business-related field
• 5+ years of experience in marketing strategy, digital marketing, or marketing technology — with meaningful exposure to AI, automation, or emerging technology
• Working knowledge of the AI and LLM landscape — including OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Perplexity, and adjacent tooling — and genuine curiosity about where it is heading
• Experience managing external vendor, platform or strategic partner relationships, including cross-functional coordination and stakeholder management
• Demonstrated ability to assess external partnership opportunities and translate partner capabilities into practical business, marketing and experience recommendations.
• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to evaluate partnership value, business impact, operational feasibility, risk considerations, audience alignment and potential tradeoffs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and synthesizing complexity into clear narratives
• Comfort operating in ambiguity with a bias for action while maintaining strong judgment, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
• Experience working cross-functionally in a matrixed organization

Benefits

• Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
• Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
• Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
• Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
• Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
• Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
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