Commercial Partner Manager

Ohalo•South San Francisco, CA

4h•$175,000 - $250,000

About The Position

At Ohalo, we are building the future of agriculture with our breakthrough Boosted Breeding™ platform. We are seeking a highly driven, execution-oriented Commercial Partner Manager to serve as the key relationship manager and point of contact for our domestic and international channel and business development partners. After business development partnerships are closed, you will be responsible for ensuring those partners are delivering on our jointly developed strategic and operating plans. You will turn strategy into goals, metrics, and plans that will deliver the expected outcomes. You will ensure partners, growers, process, and supply chain collaborators get the instructions, support, and materials they need and deliver on the outcomes we expect, on the expected timelines. You will work in-country with international partners and travel extensively, as needed to support execution. You will operate at the intersection of strategy, sales operations, customer success, and support. Help change the world with your strategic thinking, action-oriented operational excellence, and extraordinary customer service.

Requirements

Intelligent, motivated, creative, organized, customer service oriented.
8–15+ years experience owning commercial execution with business development partners, preference for experience in agriculture, seed, crop inputs, or food supply chains, but not required.
Strong capability to move from strategy to execution detail: milestones, accountability, forecasting, risk management, performance reviews.
Comfort operating in ambiguity with startup urgency — can build structure where none exists.
Ability to travel significantly (expected 30–50%+) to support partners, growers, and international execution.
GM mindset: owns outcomes end-to-end; not just relationships.
High accountability: follows through, escalates early, drives clarity.
Strong communicator: can align internal teams and external partners with crisp execution expectations.
Strong commercial judgment: understands adoption constraints in crops, seasonal rhythms, and partner incentives.

Nice To Haves

Agriculture experience, particularly in seed/inputs
International market execution experience (licensing, agronomy, sales training, product marketing, regulatory coordination).
Experience building customer success + partner execution systems (playbooks, CRM discipline, forecasting).

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning
Develop long-range business plans with business development team, finance, and partners.
Define goals: adoption, acres, grower outcomes, partner deliverables, revenue, and pipeline conversion.
Deliver action plans, with contingencies, risks, and alternative paths clearly identified and defined.
Commercial Execution Ownership
Own the commercial execution plan with partners. You will be responsible for partner outcomes.
Identify execution bottlenecks early (seed readiness, agronomy readiness, partner resourcing, training gaps, etc.) and drive solutions cross-functionally.
Drive key support for partners - product and supply chain, regulatory, legal, marketing, agronomic training, and support.
Build repeatable playbooks for market entry, partner activation, and scaled rollout.
Internal Coordination
Ensure internal resources (commercial, breeding, seed production, regulatory, program operations) are delivering on their goals to meet partner expectations.
Capture and operationalize Voice-of-Customer / Voice-of-Partner insights into product positioning, adoption strategy, and go-to-market improvements.
Feed real-world learning into the commercial roadmap and cross-functional execution framework.
Serve as the primary execution-layer translator of customer needs into Ohalo priorities.