Partnership Manager, News and Media

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders across the news industry: beat reporters, newsroom audience teams, and publisher leadership.
• Guide our news and media partners through Bluesky and AT Protocol, helping them to grow their audience.
• Establish programmatic activations with partners. Own planning and execution across both IRL and digital campaigns.
• Work cross-functionally with product, marketing, and comms to translate partner insights into actionable recommendations, and advocate for the needs of news partners internally.
• Define success metrics for news partnerships, track your inputs and outputs, and report clearly on what's working - your data will inform our priorities and resource allocation.
• Use data to develop an engagement strategy that identifies opportunities to strengthen how we serve news publishers.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience in content partnerships, audience development, or business development within a news/media capacity.
• Have deep knowledge of the news ecosystem, with existing relationships and the ability to build new ones quickly.
• Have worked in high-velocity startup environments where you ship fast and iterate often.
• Are fluent in social. You don't just "manage partnerships," you get the internet.
• Have a track record of leading campaigns that moved the needle on awareness, sentiment, and/or growth.
• Can operate autonomously, move fast, and deliver results in ambiguous or rapidly evolving spaces.

Preferred

• Are already familiar with Bluesky, AT Protocol, or the decentralized social landscape.
• Have experience with the commercial side of the content industry.
• Have worked directly in news media, at a newsroom or a publication.
• Can show us a portfolio of partnerships campaigns you've worked on.