Partner Marketing Manager

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$196K/yr – $240K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 12 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive SambaNova's global partner marketing program, leading cross‑functional campaigns, partner enablement, and scalable frameworks to accelerate awareness and pipeline with strategic partners.

  • Lead global partner marketing strategy and KPIs
  • Build and scale joint go-to-market programs with tech partners
  • Accelerate partner enablement and scalable measurement

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the global partner marketing strategy, aligned to SambaNova’s awareness, target-account, and pipeline goals.
  • Build integrated “Better Together” campaigns with strategic partners, translating joint value propositions into awareness and demand programs.
  • Develop joint go-to-market plans across digital, content, events, executive programs, ABM, and field activations.
  • Serve as the central marketing lead for SambaNova’s strategic partner relationships, coordinating priorities and plans across internal and partner teams.
  • Partner closely with regional Field + Partner Marketing teams to activate global partner strategies in North America, EMEA, and APAC.
  • Own and scale SambaAcademy partner enablement, ensuring partners have access to the training, messaging, content, and assets needed to effectively represent SambaNova.
  • Build a scalable partner marketing framework including joint planning, MDF, campaign execution, enablement, measurement, and reporting.
  • Identify opportunities to amplify SambaNova through partner channels, audiences, events, executive relationships, and ecosystems.
  • Work with Product Marketing and technical teams to translate partner integrations and technical differentiation into compelling joint stories and programs.
  • Establish KPIs and measure the impact of partner marketing on awareness, engagement, target-account penetration, and pipeline.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of B2B marketing experience, with meaningful experience in partner, alliance, channel, or ecosystem marketing.
  • Experience developing and executing joint go-to-market programs with technology partners.
  • Strong understanding of integrated marketing across digital, content, events, ABM, field, and partner channels.
  • Ability to manage complex cross-functional and cross-company relationships and move programs forward in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong program management skills with the ability to take initiatives from strategy through execution and measurement.
  • Comfortable working with technical products and translating complex technology into compelling partner stories and campaigns.
  • Data-driven mindset with experience measuring partner program performance and pipeline impact.
  • Experience in AI, infrastructure, semiconductors, cloud, or enterprise technology is strongly preferred.

Preferred

  • Experience in AI, infrastructure, semiconductors, cloud, or enterprise technology is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.
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SambaNova

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Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI CapacityAt SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing.Our MissionTo give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow.Our TechnologyWe give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise.Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier.SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations.SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days.At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.

Founded in 2017
San Jose, California, USA
405 employees (25 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

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$196K/yr – $240K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
1.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5B
Last Raise
$1B
Series F

Funding History

  • Jul 2026
    Series F • $1B
  • Feb 2026
    Series E • $350M
  • Oct 2023
    Secondary Market

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
197.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
39.8%
Referral
4.5%
Social
8.8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~405

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Partner Marketing Manager

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