Growth & Partnerships Manager

Parallelz • Toronto, ON

7d

About The Position

Parallelz is seeking a Growth & Partnerships Manager to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and commercial expansion. This role involves working closely with the Founder's Office on both strategy and execution, focusing on how to reach developers and publishers, and contributing to the broader growth and partnerships agenda. It's a generalist commercial role with a focus on gaming, suitable for someone with 2-4 years of experience in the gaming industry and an interest in how AI is transforming Go-To-Market strategies.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience in gaming, in a commercial-adjacent role (BD, partnerships, growth, UA, publishing, devrel, or product).
• Working knowledge of the gaming ecosystem.
• Strong quantitative skills.
• First-principles thinking.
• Curiosity about AI and a willingness to use it actively in day-to-day work.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Comfortable with the ambiguity of a startup environment.

Nice To Haves

• Background in ad tech, programmatic, or growth/UA.
• Existing relationships with decision makers at gaming studios and publishers.
• Experience as an early commercial or product hire at a startup.
• Technical familiarity with the mobile or web gaming ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery, qualification, and partnership conversations with mobile game developers and publishers, managing the full pre-deal lifecycle from first touch through signed partner and onboarding handoff.
• Source and qualify developers through outbound prospecting, conferences, referrals, and inbound leads, using AI-first systems to multiply the surface area of account research, prioritization, and outreach personalization.
• Partner with the CEO and VP, Strategy to build a repeatable developer acquisition playbook, including positioning, segmentation, and pricing.
• Build and own the operational backbone of the commercial motion, including CRM hygiene, pipeline reporting, outbound infrastructure, and dashboards that track conversion rates, outreach effectiveness, and pipeline health.
• Be the voice of the developer internally, feeding structured market insights and revenue-backed feature requests back to product and engineering.
• Represent Parallelz across the gaming and ad tech ecosystem at industry events and conferences, and serve as the in-house point of view on what's shifting in the space.

Benefits

• Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation
• Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision), including Health and Wellness spending account
• Generous time off policies
• Access to leading AI tools and platforms

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees