Sr. Manager, Partnership Strategy & Activation

Needham, MA (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $199K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end to end framework for talent partnerships, from deal evaluation to post launch impact, coordinating social, media, and retail motion for measurable brand and revenue lift.

  • Cross functional activation and deal governance across global and regional partners.
  • Predictive models and dashboards to forecast partner contribution and optimize investments.
  • Competitive benchmarking to shape ROI driven partnership strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross functional activation and commercialization of talent & brand partnerships, aligning social, marketing, media, creative, sales, and retail teams to maximize brand impact and business results.
  • Produce internal and partner-facing performance reports, briefing decks, and post-campaign learnings that drive smarter future investments.
  • Build and maintain the deal proposition framework that governs how we evaluate and tier talent partnerships, defining the rigor applied to global brand ambassador deals vs. regional vs. macro talent, including financial thresholds, strategic fit criteria, and expected ROI.
  • Manage contract terms including deliverables, usage rights, paid vs. organic KPI splits, and measurement requirements.
  • Drive continuous benchmarking vs. competitors and category trends to pressure-test our deal logic and inform partnership strategy.
  • Define and own KPIs and benchmarking frameworks across the partner portfolio including organic and paid social, OTT and paid media, brand awareness and lift, revenue lift, and virality.
  • Build and maintain partner scorecards and dashboards; run A/B tests, attribute impact, and translate findings into clear optimization recommendations.
  • Develop predictive models to forecast partner contribution to social and business objectives at the time of deal evaluation and post-launch.

Requirements

  • 6-8 years in partnerships, talent, media, or brand strategy with meaningful experience in deal structuring and evaluation, not just execution.
  • Strong analytical foundation: comfortable building models, interpreting platform and brand lift data, and designing measurement frameworks from scratch.
  • Experience working across commercial and retail environments; you understand how a social moment translates downstream to sell-through.
  • Able to operate with rigor and speed; you build frameworks that scale, not one-off decks.
  • Strong communicator, you can sell a point of view to senior stakeholders and simplify complexity for partners.

Benefits

  • medical insurance
  • dental insurance
  • vision insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
  • 401(k) retirement plan with matching
  • employee stock purchase program
  • life insurance
  • AD&D
  • short-term disability insurance
  • long-term disability insurance
  • generous paid time off
  • company holidays
  • parential leave
  • identity theft protection
  • pet insurance
  • pre-paid legal insurance
  • back-up child and eldercare days
  • product discounts
  • referral bonus program
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SharkNinja

SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company that creates 5-star rated lifestyle solutions through innovative products for consumers around the world. Known for its two billion-dollar brands, Shark and Ninja, SharkNinja has a proven track record of establishing leadership positions by disrupting numerous household product categories, including Cleaning, Cooking, Food Preparation and Other, which includes Home Environment and Beauty.

Founded in 1994
Needham Heights, Massachusetts, USA
3.8K employees (726 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$106K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.3%
Direct
63.7%
Referral
5.5%
Social
8.7%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
543 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
11.5 years
Median Tenure
3.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
25

Funding

Total Funding
$1.2B
Last Raise
$638M
Post IPO Secondary, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Secondary • $638M
  • Mar 2024
    Post IPO Secondary • $272.1M
  • Dec 2023
    Post IPO Secondary • $286.5M

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