Senior Manager, AI Partnership Marketing

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$95K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and launch the tiered partner marketing program (Platinum / Gold / Silver), including intake criteria, upgrade paths, and treatment-by-tier marketing plans covering demand gen, media, product marketing, events, and brand.
  • Serve as the primary marketing point of contact for all enrolled partners; lead kickoff meetings to align on brand rights, creative review SLAs, joint value propositions, and rules of engagement.
  • Develop co-branded campaign assets and a reusable design system with the creative team to enable fast-track content production across partners.
  • Build and maintain in-platform brand guidelines defining how Morningstar appears inside partner ecosystems and off-platform experiences.
  • Develop and execute GTM enablement plans for the sales team — including talk tracks, FAQs, one-pagers, and joint sales plays — and track adoption via Gong and asset engagement metrics.
  • Own partner-sourced pipeline tracking and influence attribution; prepare quarterly business review (QBR) materials to demonstrate ROI to both internal leadership and partner stakeholders.
  • Create targeted client education content (persona- and workflow-specific) that brings AI capabilities down to advisors' level of familiarity and comfort — starting with tactical Copilot use cases and building toward Agents and Skills adoption.
  • Align with sales leadership and the Global Head of AI Platform Strategy on partner prioritization, tier assignments, and program enrollment decisions.
  • Establish shared workspaces, communication cadences, and escalation paths with each partner to ensure smooth execution and accountability.
  • Monitor and manage the demand-gen activation budget, tracking spend against pipeline and revenue outcomes.

Requirements

  • 6+ years in B2B marketing with at least 2 years in partnership, channel, or alliance marketing at a SaaS or data/technology company.
  • Demonstrated experience building or managing a tiered partner program — including co-marketing execution, enablement, and performance reporting.
  • Strong understanding of the LLM and AI platform ecosystem; familiarity with partner marketplace dynamics and co-sell motions.
  • Fluency in demand-gen channels — paid search, display, social, email, webinars, and events — with the ability to build campaigns across all of them.
  • Experience with marketing attribution modeling and CRM hygiene (Salesforce), including pipeline tagging for partner-sourced and partner-influenced deals.
  • Excellent cross-functional instincts: comfortable working across sales, legal, brand, product marketing, and executive stakeholders simultaneously.
  • Strong project management and written communication skills; able to run multiple partner workstreams without losing fidelity on any of them.
  • Experience developing client-facing education content for non-technical audiences — translating complex technology into workflow-level clarity.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity at the early stages of a program build, with the discipline to create repeatable processes from scratch.

Preferred

  • Prior experience at a fintech, financial data, or investment management company — or selling into RIAs, broker-dealers, or asset managers.
  • Familiarity with co-sell programs at dominant AI platforms (e.g., Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, or similar ecosystem partners).
  • Experience working with Gong for sales enablement analytics and asset adoption tracking.
  • Background in brand licensing or in-platform brand governance across third-party integrations.

Benefits

  • Financial Health
  • 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary
  • Stock Ownership Potential
  • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission
  • Physical Health
  • Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages
  • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
  • Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
  • Emotional Health
  • Trust-Based Time Off
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Morningstar

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Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets, and alliances and redistributors. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $369 billion in AUMA as of Sept. 30, 2025. The Company operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries in 32 countries.

Founded in 1984
Chicago, Illinois, USA
12K employees (526 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
90% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$669.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.4%
Direct
60.8%
Referral
7.8%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~12K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
393 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

Funding

Total Funding
$91M
Last Raise
$91M
Private Equity, 27 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 1999
    Private Equity • $91M

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