Senior Partnerships Manager, US (Remote)
Riipen
Sales & Business Development
Remote
Posted on Dec 21, 2025
The Strategic Partnerships Executive (US) will lead enterprise sales engagements across higher education and workforce organizations—pursuing and securing transformative, multi-year partnerships aligned to institutional priorities and workforce impact goals. As a senior individual contributor, you will own the full lifecycle of strategic pursuits: identifying opportunities, shaping value propositions, engaging executive stakeholders, and mobilizing internal teams to win high-value agreements. You will operate with authority, commercial rigor, and executive presence, contributing meaningfully to Riipen’s enterprise growth trajectory.
This role will include well defined collaboration points with Revenue leadership on the handoff of employer-led revenue opportunities and on how employer feedback informs post-sale improvements, ensuring seamless integration across the employer lifecycle.
Location: US - Remote
- Department
- Strategic Partnerships
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- United States - Remote
- Workplace type
- Fully remote
In this role, you will:
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Lead and orchestrate enterprise sales engagements, owning the pursuit from opportunity identification through discovery, solution design, negotiation, and contract finalization.
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Engage senior institutional and workforce leaders—Presidents, Provosts, VPs, system leaders—to build trust, help institutions clarify priorities, and position Riipen as a long-term strategic partner.
- Run world-class discovery, translating institutional priorities, constraints, and policy drivers into compelling partnership narratives and proposal structures.
- Develop and execute named-account pursuit plans, collaborating with GTM Strategy & Solutions and Revenue Marketing for ABM-aligned engagement and account penetration.
- Build and advance a healthy pipeline of strategic opportunities through a mix of direct engagement, ecosystem relationships, and targeted outreach.
- Collaborate with internal partners—pulling in expertise at the right moments to strengthen solution fit and accelerate deal momentum.
- Drive responses to complex bids and RFPs, shaping tailored, outcome-focused proposals that reflect institutional goals and measurable impact.
- Apply rigorous qualification and forecast discipline, leveraging structured frameworks to ensure predictable execution.
- Represent Riipen credibly at conferences, leadership forums, and ecosystem convenings, elevating Riipen’s presence in the sector.
- Deliver against an individual new business quota, ensuring growth is aligned to partner readiness, impact goals, and long-term success.
You may be a great fit if you:
- Significant experience closing complex, high-value enterprise deals in EdTech, SaaS, higher education, workforce development, or adjacent public-sector markets, with a history of securing multi-year agreements.
- A proven ability to engage senior decision-makers in institutional or workforce systems—building alignment across executive sponsors, operational stakeholders, and policy influencers.
- A disciplined, insight-driven approach to discovery, capable of uncovering institutional priorities, barriers, and drivers—and converting them into clear, compelling partnership recommendations.
- Fluency in structured qualification and pursuit management, using consistent frameworks to assess opportunity strength, navigate multi-threaded buying processes, and progress deals predictably.
Understanding of the dynamics that shape educational and workforce ecosystems—including funding cycles, governance structures, institutional readiness, and employer-aligned program needs.
Experience coordinating complex pursuits across cross-functional teams, ensuring the right expertise is brought in at the right stage to shape solution fit and strengthen value propositions. - A track record of performing in evolving, fast-moving environments, bringing clarity, momentum, and commercial judgment to opportunities without waiting for perfect structure.
- A confident, executive communication style, able to simplify complex concepts, influence diverse stakeholders, and foster conviction in high-stakes conversations.
We ask that if you feel like you don’t check all the boxes but have the potential to learn what you don’t know, that you still apply! We believe that diverse teams are high performing teams and we strive to employ individuals with a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Benefits
- Remote/travel working opportunities (when appropriate)
- 4-weeks of annual vacation
- Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day
- Flexible health spending account
- Work from home stipend
Note: compensation listed is inclusive of variable
We appreciate your interest and application. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
Riipen is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, colour, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances.
Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.
About Riipen
Conceptualized by Dana Stephenson and Dave Savory for their capstone entrepreneurship project at the University of Victoria, Riipen addressed an issue that they faced personally as learners — the challenge of gaining relevant work experience, building a network of possible employers, and then demonstrating their skills to that network in order to find work that would help them start their careers. They were facing the graduation conundrum — You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job.
Since inception in 2013, Riipen has expanded its reach internationally and has developed a state of the art technology platform that caters and provides significant competitive advantages for organizations and academic institutions while staying true to their original goal of supporting student development. Riipen has enabled 193,000+ students at 590+ post-secondary institutions and training providers to partake in applied learning with 31,000+ companies. All of this leads us to our mission: Eliminate Underemployment.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Application Received
Stage 2:
1st Interview
Stage 3:
2nd Interview
Stage 4:
Final Interview
