Partnership Manager, News and Media

USA (Remote)

$100/hr – $110/hrMid Level5+ years expContract

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the development of strategic news partnerships, guiding relationships, programmatic activations, and cross-functional collaboration to drive data-driven growth for news publishers.

  • Manage relationships with key news stakeholders
  • Guide partners through Bluesky and AT Protocol
  • Define success metrics and report results

Job Description

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.
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BlueSky is an award-winning, ambitious and independent cloud, digital and AI technology agency. We partner with leading technologies including Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Alteryx, Tableau, Snowflake and DataBricks. We’ve got the tools to help you build a business for the future. Our services include the full set of digital, cloud and AI disciplines required to drive your digital transformation.The sky’s the limit when you think without limits. At BlueSky, we thrive on agility and a culture of curiosity. It’s a mindset that pushes us to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that drive efficiency, effectiveness & growth for our clients. We have vast experience in delivering emerging technology using start-up thinking and agile delivery methodologies applying flexible, iterative solutions that achieve business value.We guide our clients through every phase of digital and AI transformation from strategy definition and roadmap design to implementation and post go-live managed services. We believe emerging technology offers the opportunity to leap forwards towards growth and innovation. We ensure innovation leads to actionable outcomes and measurable returns.

Founded in 2017
Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
231 employees (18 in marketing)
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Posted range

$100/hr – $110/hr

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Partnership Manager, News and Media

Bluesky · USA · Remote