Strategic Partnerships Manager

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Location: New York,New York,United States

Hello! It’s nice to meet you. Anchor is a New York based startup aimed at democratizing audio. With the tap of a button, we enable anyone in the world to create compelling, high quality audio and instantly be heard anywhere (on our platform, on the web, in podcast players, on smart speakers, in cars, and much more coming soon). Google us and you’ll find people commenting on the innovative, intuitive improvements we’ve been regularly bringing to the world of audio. In short, we are doing very cool things, and we’d love your help to do cool things better and faster!

As our first full-time business development hire, you’ll focus on attracting companies and brands, forging creative partnerships, and helping them produce amazing audio using Anchor. Your job will be to devise an outreach strategy, manage ongoing relationships, and serve as liaison to our product team to ensure we’re providing everything partners need. At Anchor, you’ll get to work alongside a cross-functional team of engineering, product, content, and community team members. This is a unique opportunity to help build out the network for a consumer-facing and product-driven company that’s backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley and NY. This is a full-time role based in New York City.

Responsibilities:

• Help devise and manage Anchor’s business development strategy
• Attract and build partnerships with companies and brands
• Manage and creatively leverage Anchor’s existing network and partnerships
• Work closely with product team to inspire features that improve partnerships

Requirements:

• A sense of humor
• Experience building decks, pitching to potential partners, and effectively managing a large number of partners/accounts
• Existing network of creative brands, companies, and influencers
• Ability to come up with creative concepts built around a specific brand or idea
• Excellent communication and organization
• Persistent/determined work ethic and a willingness to try anything and everything, and to pivot quickly as needed
• Proven ability to work well with cross-functional teams
• Strong interest in podcasts, radio, or audio in general (bonus points if you have made your own podcast, been on the radio, or otherwise successfully created original audio content)

Perks:

• Competitive salary, stock options, and whatever hardware, software, books, and tools you need to get your job done
• Benefits: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k, flexible vacation policy
• A small, fast-moving team full of very nice, very smart, very creative people

If you'd like to recommend a friend for this position, you can email us at jobs@anchor.fm.