Business Development & Partnerships Manager

Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000

Location

United States

Posted

1 day ago

Salary

Not specified

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Job Description

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Role Description

This role involves driving growth across Europe and the United States through strategic partnerships, enterprise collaborations, and large-scale learning initiatives.

  • Identify and close strategic partnerships with enterprise and mid-market companies, corporations, government institutions, universities, NGOs, and technology partners.
  • Build and manage a pipeline of 20–40 strategic partnership and institutional opportunities to expand Nebius Academy programs.
  • Lead full-cycle partnership and enterprise sales processes — from market discovery and stakeholder mapping to solution design, negotiation, closing, and program launch.
  • Develop tailored partnership solutions around AI adoption, workforce upskilling, enterprise transformation, and public–private initiatives.
  • Manage complex enterprise and institutional sales cycles (4–9 months) involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Engage with C-level executives, government representatives, university leadership, innovation teams, and corporate learning leaders.
  • Generate new opportunities through strategic outreach, ecosystem partnerships, industry events, conferences, and institutional networks.
  • Drive partnerships with typical deal sizes of $100K–$1M+ depending on program scope.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Academic, Legal, and Sales teams to shape go-to-market strategy and deliver programs.
  • Maintain pipeline visibility and reporting using CRM tools (e.g., HubSpot), analytics dashboards, and collaboration platforms.

Qualifications

  • 5–10+ years of experience in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Enterprise Sales, or Consulting, with a track record of closing complex, relationship-driven deals.
  • Experience managing enterprise or institutional partnerships ($100K–$1M+), including sales cycles of 4–9 months and pipelines of 20+ strategic opportunities.
  • Proven ability to build and manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including C-level executives, government representatives, and university leadership.
  • Strong negotiation and deal-structuring skills, with experience closing multi-stakeholder partnerships or enterprise programs.
  • Experience closing $300K+ deals is a strong advantage.
  • Experience working with enterprise organizations or institutional partners such as corporations, universities, government bodies, or technology ecosystems.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments, with a hands-on and autonomous working style.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills in English; additional European languages are a plus.
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Academic, Legal, and Sales teams.
  • Genuine interest in AI, technology, education, and workforce transformation.

Requirements

  • 5–10+ years of experience in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Enterprise Sales, or Consulting.
  • Experience managing enterprise or institutional partnerships ($100K–$1M+).
  • Strong negotiation and deal-structuring skills.
  • Experience closing $300K+ deals is a strong advantage.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills in English.

Benefits

  • A supportive and proactive work environment.
  • Fully remote and full-time collaboration.
  • A diverse team across Europe, the US, Latin America and more.
  • Modern digital tools for seamless collaboration.
  • Tangible results measured by student success.

Job Requirements

  • 5–10+ years of experience in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Enterprise Sales, or Consulting, with a track record of closing complex, relationship-driven deals.
  • Experience managing enterprise or institutional partnerships ($100K–$1M+), including sales cycles of 4–9 months and pipelines of 20+ strategic opportunities.
  • Proven ability to build and manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including C-level executives, government representatives, and university leadership.
  • Strong negotiation and deal-structuring skills, with experience closing multi-stakeholder partnerships or enterprise programs.
  • Experience closing $300K+ deals is a strong advantage.
  • Experience working with enterprise organizations or institutional partners such as corporations, universities, government bodies, or technology ecosystems.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments, with a hands-on and autonomous working style.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills in English; additional European languages are a plus.
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Academic, Legal, and Sales teams.
  • Genuine interest in AI, technology, education, and workforce transformation.
  • 5–10+ years of experience in Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Enterprise Sales, or Consulting.
  • Experience managing enterprise or institutional partnerships ($100K–$1M+).
  • Strong negotiation and deal-structuring skills.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills in English.

Benefits

  • A supportive and proactive work environment.
  • Fully remote and full-time collaboration.
  • A diverse team across Europe, the US, Latin America and more.
  • Modern digital tools for seamless collaboration.
  • Tangible results measured by student success.

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