Job Description

The Meta Reality Labs Partnerships team is seeking a talented, highly motivated and experienced individual to help drive new product relationships for an emerging technology and product space in our AR/VR business group. You'll be at the center of a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional team pushing on every aspect of bringing new products to market: technology, hardware, software, marketing and brand, GTM, and distribution. The Strategic Partner Manager will be an important piece to maintaining long-standing relationships with some of our top partners. If you possess strong relationship-building skills and enjoy working cross-functionally to bring to life (and launch) our key initiatives and products, this role is worth leaning into.The AR Glasses Partnerships team is seeking a Strategic Partner Manager who will drive the partnerships from deal close through product launches, managing the relationships, and growing, measuring and optimizing partnership success. More importantly, you will identify ways to grow the partnership after the initial deal close, whereby both the partner and the Meta team will benefit and thrive. You will be passionate about new hardware, platforms and content and enjoy working with product teams. Additionally, you will have experience working with multiple partners and be comfortable in a start-up type of environment.This role will report directly to the Director of AR Device Partnerships. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable in a rapidly changing environment and takes a proactive and strategic approach to partner management. You will have the ability to bridge short term goals with longer term strategy and be able to create and execute a well-ordered framework of action with little to no direction.

Strategic Partner Manager, AR Glasses Responsibilities:

• Bring partnerships from deal close through product launches, scale, nurture, and optimize partnerships beyond launch, identifying incremental, mutually beneficial opportunities to grow the partnership
• Develop strong and deep relationships with our key partner across RL product areas, manage all internal and external executive communication, meetings, and engagements. Manage the proper level partner relationships with a focus on continued growth of the partnership, and execution against contractual obligations
• Work collaboratively & cross-functionally with business development, marketing, operations, data science, engineering, product management, legal, developer strategy, and communicate to execute our obligations as articulated in each partnership
• Maintain a cadence of regular syncs with partners to understand their roadmaps and priorities to proactively identify opportunities to grow the partnership beyond any initial deal
• Advocate for the partner internally and for the Meta team's needs externally with the partner
• Analyze key business metrics to impact change for both the partner and internally within FRL
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in a partner-facing role on the Internet, media/entertainment, and/or high-tech industries
• Sound business judgment and experience to prioritize and triage partner-related issues, solution-find, and effectively motivate internal and external stakeholders to work towards a common goal
• Highly strategic and experienced in leading cross-functional teams to orchestrate, collaborate, and successfully seize opportunities
• Experience with a fast-paced, always-on, start-up environment
• Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, highly organized and communication skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree, MBA degree
• Business experience in hardware and devices partnerships, HW/SW partner management
• Strong technical competence or tech-curious and motivated to learn
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and experience developing strong working relationships, garner respect, and grow influence inside and outside the AR/VR organization
• Skilled at navigating, understanding, and enforcing contracts
  
  

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