Manager of Automotive Partnerships

Podium•Lehi, UT

27d

About The Position

We are looking for a strategic leader to build and lead a "Full Stack" partnerships team dedicated to the holistic health of our Automotive ecosystem. This includes ensuring our technical roadmap supports commercial program requirements, renegotiating complex terms to support our AI evolution, and mobilizing field teams to drive adoption. You will lead the managers responsible for execution, validation, and revenue growth, ensuring that our integrations deliver value and our OEM partners drive revenue.

Requirements

Experience: 7+ years in Partnerships, Business Development, or Strategy, with significant experience in the Automotive industry (OEMs, DMS, or Dealer Tech).
Full Stack Fluency: You must be bilingual in "Technical" and "Commercial." You can discuss API-based workflows and sandbox testing as comfortably as you can discuss revenue growth and OEM program incentives.
Negotiation Prowess: specific track record of negotiating complex, high-value contracts, preferably involving data rights, AI, or platform integration terms.
Leadership: Proven ability to manage diverse teams—supporting technical product managers in requirement gathering while simultaneously guiding relationship managers in event planning and field support.
Strategic Vision: Ability to evaluate how integrations and partnerships generate compounding value over time for all parties.

Responsibilities

Unified Ecosystem Strategy
Bridge Technical & Commercial: You will ensure the technical roadmap aligns with commercial requirements. You will oversee the Product Partnerships function to ensure high-impact integrations are not just technically viable, but commercially certified for program inclusion.
Holistic Health: You are responsible for the end-to-end health of the auto vertical, from the technical stability of the integration to the revenue growth of the partner accounts.
Cross-Functional Leadership: collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales to align business models and identify where leverage allows for compounded impact.
Strategic Negotiation & Commercialization
Modernize Partnership Terms: Serve as the owner for renegotiating legacy and new partner agreements. You will focus specifically on establishing flexible pricing models and securing rights for AI inclusion and data usage.
Incentive Alignment: Identify leverage points within partner business models to create long-term value and strategic alignment.
Team Leadership & Mobilization
Lead the Product Partnerships Function: Guide your direct reports in driving the execution, validation, and adoption of integrations across Franchise and Independent car dealer sub-verticals. Ensure the team maintains rigorous validation workflows and optimizes engineering environments.
Mobilize the GTM Function: Responsible for the performance of the GTM partner team. You will ensure they effectively enable OEM regional managers to understand and position our product.
Drive Accountability: Instill a culture of urgency and ownership, ensuring your team takes accountability for outcomes across both technical delivery and revenue targets.
Own the Roadmap: Dictate the priority of integrations based on Market penetration and revenue potential.
Enable the Field: Oversee the strategy for partner enablement and training, ensuring partner field teams are equipped to drive referrals.
Executive Presence: Represent the company at key industry events and lead high-stakes negotiations with OEM executives.
GTM Readiness: Ensure full GTM readiness for new integrations, bridging the gap between technical completion and client team availability.
Metrics & Analysis: Monitor integration health metrics alongside partner revenue deliverables to provide a single view of ecosystem performance.