Senior Partner Manager - Technology Partnerships

THE ROLE, IN A NUTSHELL:

As a Senior Partner Manager on our Technology Partnerships team, you will own the Chainguard integrations program: how we evaluate, scope, certify, and maintain integrations, and how we prioritize them against customer demand and company strategy. You will drive that work across partner engineering, Product, and a dedicated Solutions Engineer, and you will be the person partners work with from first conversation through launch.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Alliances.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Own the technology partner integrations program, including the standards for how integrations are evaluated, scoped, certified, and maintained
• Own the integration roadmap and prioritize it against customer demand, technical feasibility, and company strategy
• Run the program end to end: partner intake, qualification, scoping, agreements, build coordination, certification, launch, and ongoing lifecycle
• Drive integrations to completion across partner engineering, Chainguard Product, and Solutions Engineering
• Own the partner relationship on the integration side, including joint reviews and accountability to committed timelines
• Work with Legal on partner agreements and the terms that govern partner access to Chainguard data
• Track the health of the integration portfolio and escalate what is stalled or degraded
• Bring partner requirements back to Product with the context needed to inform the roadmap
• Coordinate integration launches with Alliances, Product Marketing, and the field

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• 6+ years in technology partnerships, partner management, integration program management, or partner solutions
• Technical enough to scope an integration and evaluate a partner's proposed design. This role does not build or test, but you should not depend on others to know where a program stands
• Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and cloud native infrastructure
• Familiarity with vulnerability management tooling and how scanners work
• Program management experience. You have taken ambiguous, multi-stakeholder work and given it a process and an owner
• Experience with partner agreements and commercial terms alongside Legal
• Experience in a technology partner ecosystem, and an understanding of how ISVs decide where to invest
• Ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time

BONUS EXPERIENCE:

• Experience at a security vendor building a scanner, CNAPP, or vulnerability management product
• Experience building a partner certification or technical partner program
• Familiarity with coordinated vulnerability disclosure