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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Partner Development Lead - Technology Partners - **Company:** Emergent BioSolutions Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Infrastructure, MongoDB, Systems Integration, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, Stripe, Marketplace - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/partner-development-lead-technology-partners-emergent-labs-9804281 ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, or alliances with technology, platform, or infrastructure partners (payments, cloud/database infrastructure, marketplaces, or AI/ML companies). * A track record of turning a signed plan or agreement into an operating go-to-market motion: you're as comfortable executing as you are deal-making. * Comfortable in technical partner conversations (APIs, integrations, data infrastructure), working closely with engineering and product to get things shipped. * Strong program-management skills: you can run several concurrent partner motions with hard external dates and keep every one of them moving. * Comfortable operating with a lot of ambiguity in a fast-paced startup environment where the function is still being built. * Self-motivated and professionally persistent: you proactively find and remove internal and external barriers rather than waiting for a process to catch up with you. * Anchors every decision on joint customer success, not just partner count or deal volume. Nice to Have: * Experience with payments (e.g., Stripe), database/cloud infrastructure (e.g., MongoDB, AWS, GCP), marketplace, or AI/LLM ecosystem partnerships. * Experience planning and executing co-marketing campaigns and joint launch events with enterprise technology partners. * Familiarity with the AI/LLM landscape and how startups build with it. ## Description Over the past few months we've built joint go-to-market plans with technology partners including AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, MongoDB, and Stripe, partners our SMB customers already rely on. We now need a senior individual contributor to take those plans from paper to execution: running the joint campaigns, integrations, and milestones that turn a signed plan into measurable customer acquisition, retention, and revenue impact. This is an execution-first role. The strategic groundwork and relationships are already in place; your job is to make the plans real, on time, and with the outcomes we committed to our partners and to each other. You'll report to our Head of Partnerships (formerly of AWS and Stripe) as one of the first dedicated partner hires, with real latitude to shape how this function works. What You'll Do: * Execute against joint go-to-market plans already in motion with technology partners such as AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, MongoDB, and Stripe, turning committed activities (co-marketing campaigns, joint launch moments, credit bundles, badges, and integrations) into shipped, measurable outcomes. * Own the day-to-day relationship with each partner's team, including regular business reviews and a joint scorecard tracking adoption, co-marketing reach, and retention/revenue impact. * Coordinate cross-functionally with product and engineering on technical integrations (APIs, partner infrastructure), with marketing on co-branded campaigns and launch events, and with finance and legal on commercial terms. * Continuously evaluate our broader pipeline of complementary technology partners and bring the highest-leverage ones from early exploration to a signed, executing partnership. * Negotiate and manage commercial terms (revenue share, co-marketing investment, credits and funding) consistent with Emergent's standard partnership framework. * Report on progress, blockers, and impact across all active technology-partner motions, and build the internal tools and processes that let this function scale. ## Related Videos - [Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100362-navigating-growth-scaling-challenges-and-office-expansions-with-david-singleton-cto-at-stripe) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [40 Minutes to Build a Serverless COVID-19 REST and GraphQL APIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/208-40-minutes-to-build-a-serverless-covid-19-rest-and-graphql-apis) - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Build Your Own Subscription-based Course Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/321-build-your-own-subscription-based-course-platform) - [NoSQL Data Modeling for Front-end Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/297-nosql-data-modeling-for-front-end-developers) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [What Are Large Language Models?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/304-what-are-large-language-models) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j)