Kestra Financial

Kestra Financial

Partnership Manager

United States · Exec · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 113 days ago
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About the role

  • You report to the CEO and work closely with Product, PMM, Field Engineering, and the Sales team.

Responsibilities

  • 1 - Build the Partner Program from scratch
  • Define onboarding process, partner portal, co-sell rules of engagement
  • 2 - Sign and activate technology partners
  • Identify and prioritize integration partners (strategic cloud platforms, AI/ML tooling, data infrastructure, DevOps/IDP vendors)
  • Lead partnership negotiations: co-marketing agreements, joint GTM plans, technical integration scopes
  • Coordinate with Product and Engineering to ship and document integrations
  • 3 - Develop consulting & SI partnerships
  • Structure partner enablement: training, certifications, Kestra Academy access, demo environments
  • 4 - Drive ecosystem growth
  • Own the Kestra Partner Ecosystem Catalog - content, positioning, and launch

Requirements

  • 4-7 years in partnerships, business development, or alliances - ideally in open-source infrastructure, data tooling, DevOps, or cloud platforms
  • Strong commercial instincts: you know how to structure a win-win deal and move it to signature
  • Experience with workflow orchestration, data pipelines, or infrastructure automation
  • Familiarity with co-sell and co-market mechanics in cloud marketplaces (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Nice to have

  • Close coordination with the European team across time zones.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication - in English, German or French a plus

Skills

  • Map the landscape of relevant system integrators, boutique DevOps/data consultancies, and nearshore delivery firms

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, equity, and health insurance
  • Design the program structure: tiers, benefits, co-marketing, referral mechanics, certification requirements
  • Set KPIs: partner-sourced pipeline, partner-influenced ARR, ecosystem catalog coverage

Company info

  • Kestra is the Orchestration Control Plane of the AI Era - a general-purpose, open-source workflow orchestration platform trusted by engineering and data teams at JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, Apple, Crédit Agricole, and Deutsche Telekom.
  • We orchestrate data pipelines, infrastructure automation, business processes, and agentic AI workflows - all in one platform.
  • Regular travel to customers, industry events, and team offsites.

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