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Referral Partnerships Manager
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Remote
Job Summary:
our partner is looking for a Referral Partnerships Manager to onboard, engage, and grow our company referral partner network. You’ll build partner relationships, drive referral activity, and work with internal teams to ensure a smooth partner experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Onboard partners and explain the portal, opportunities, referral processes, and payout conditions.
- Serve as the main point of contact across Slack, email, and other channels.
- Build relationships through proactive outreach and regular check-ins.
- Track engagement and referral activity, resolve blockers, and escalate high-value referrals.
- Drive engagement and reactivate inactive partners.
- Maintain partner resources and use feedback to improve the program.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience managing referral, affiliate, ambassador, or partner programs.
- Experience in partnerships, account management, customer success, community management, or business development.
- Strong communication, organization, and relationship management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple partners, priorities, and ongoing initiatives.
- Proactive problem-solving and strong ownership mindset.
- Comfortable working independently and cross-functionally in a fast-paced, remote environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with referral, affiliate, ambassador, or partner programs.
- Familiarity with CRM, referral tracking, or partner management tools.
- Experience creating onboarding materials and partner communications.
- Background in a startup, technology, marketplace, or high-growth environment.
This is a 100% remote contract role, open to applicants worldwide in the countries the employer accepts.