Strategic Partnerships & Program Lead (Cloud / AI / Data) - Remote
About The Position
Experian is seeking a Strategic Partnerships & Program Lead to identify high-impact partnership opportunities and manage key initiatives within cloud, clean room, and AI ecosystems. This role serves as the program lead for strategic partnerships, guiding initiatives from concept to delivery. It involves managing partner engagement (e.g., InfoSum, Databricks, Snowflake), coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring accountability for outcomes. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring significant ownership, structured execution, and the ability to thrive in a matrixed organization. The position is remote and reports to the Vice President Partnerships.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, program management, consulting, or related roles.
- Experience working with cloud platforms, data ecosystems, or AI technologies.
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional programs.
- Comfortable operating within a large organization while maintaining a practical, hands-on approach (start-up mindset).
Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize strategic partners across cloud, data collaboration, and AI ecosystems.
- Optimize time-to-value for partnerships.
- Build and manage a pipeline of partnership opportunities aligned to company priorities.
- Develop informed perspectives on ecosystem trends and strategic positioning.
- Establish and maintain working relationships with key partners.
- Support advancement of opportunities in coordination with senior team members.
- Act as program owner for strategic initiatives across partnerships and platform integrations.
- Lead weekly partner and internal working sessions and maintain a consistent execution cadence.
- Define and manage objectives, success criteria, timelines, milestones, deliverables, roles, ownership, and accountability.
- Drive initiatives through full lifecycle (concept → alignment → execution → delivery) with leadership guidance.
- Track progress, manage dependencies, and escalate risks as needed.
- Ensure initiatives move forward and reach completion, focusing on delivery outcomes.
- Partner with product, engineering, legal, sales, and marketing teams.
- Work with leadership to align stakeholders across a matrixed organization with competing priorities.
- Translate partnership opportunities into executable internal plans.
- Ensure initiatives are commercially viable, technically feasible, and operationally scalable.
- Monitor developments across cloud, AI, and data ecosystems.
- Identify gaps and opportunities to inform partnership strategy.
- Contribute to the development of repeatable processes for sourcing and executing partnerships.
Benefits
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
- Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
