[Hiring] Strategic Partner Marketing Manager @Syndio

Role Description

Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees? Syndio is the leading pay governance and compensation intelligence platform. We help organizations make better pay decisions at every stage of the compensation lifecycle, from leveling and offers to promotions and merit. Our platform gives HR, compensation, and finance leaders the data and decision support they need to govern pay fairly, compliantly, and with confidence.

Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust!

The Role: Syndio's partner ecosystem is a core growth driver, and the relationships we've built with strategic partners require dedicated marketing investment to realize their full potential. We're hiring a Strategic Partner Marketing Manager to own the co-marketing function across our strategic partner portfolio.

• Serve as the primary marketing liaison to strategic partners
• Own the day-to-day marketing relationship with Syndio's strategic partner portfolio
• Build trusted working relationships with counterpart marketing contacts at each partner organization
• Represent Syndio marketing in partner planning calls, quarterly business reviews, and co-marketing syncs
• Bring executive presence to senior-stakeholder settings
• Coordinate across multiple external stakeholders when programs involve more than one partner organization
• Own partner program navigation
• Understand each partner's program structure and stage
• Lead the process for partnerships that follow a full launch motion
• Build and maintain a shared source of truth
• Develop and manage a co-marketing hub
• Ensure messaging across all partner-facing materials accurately reflects Syndio's product capabilities
• Establish a lightweight review and approval process with Product Marketing
• Apply Syndio's platform narrative and brand system consistently across all co-branded materials
• Drive co-branded content and campaign execution
• Own the creation of co-branded assets
• Distill complex, joint value propositions into sharp, sales-ready soundbites
• Partner with the content and communications team to develop joint thought leadership
• Collaborate with revenue marketing on co-branded event support
• Support revenue impact
• Work with Syndio's revenue marketing team and partner ops to identify joint customer overlap
• Coordinate joint GTM plays and outbound sequences
• Track co-marketing program performance and report on contribution to pipeline and influenced revenue
• Ensure product marketing accuracy across the partner ecosystem
• Audit existing partner materials on a regular cadence
• Provide partners with timely updates when product positioning changes

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in B2B marketing, with at least 2 years in a partner marketing, alliances marketing, or product marketing role
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional relationships
• Strong written communication skills and an instinct for clear, accurate product messaging
• Executive presence — proven comfort operating credibly with senior stakeholders (VP+) at partner organizations
• A sharp eye for visual and brand detail
• Experience creating co-branded content and managing partner-facing asset libraries
• Comfort operating with autonomy in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with HubSpot or similar CRM/marketing automation platforms
• Experience in HR tech, compensation, or enterprise SaaS is a plus

Requirements

• You're organized without being rigid
• You default to clarity in your communication
• You understand that partner marketing lives at an intersection
• You care about getting the details right
• You can sit in a room with a partner's VP of Marketing and hold your own

Benefits

• 💰 Competitive Compensation: Salary targeted at $146-172k per year
• 🏆 Syndio Equity: Share in Syndio’s success
• 🏝 Flexible Vacation Policy: Recharge when needed, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave
• 🩺 Medical, Dental, Vision: Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents
• 🏥 Life Insurance & Disability: Syndio covers the full premium
• 📍 Remote within the US (East Coast preferred) #LI-Remote

Role Progression

• Within 30 days: Immerse yourself in Syndio's mission and product positioning, meet key stakeholders, and audit the current partner landscape
• By 60 days: Start building a foundation by drafting a repeatable partner onboarding playbook
• After 90 days: Drive impact, executing your first co-marketing initiative

The interview overview

• Recruiter Screen (25 min) — chat with our Talent team
• Hiring Manager Interview (30 min) — dive into the role's scope and priorities
• Marketing Leadership Conversation (30 min) — align on strategy and mutual fit
• Crossfunctional Team Interviews (3 x 30 min) — individual conversations with members of our Strategic Partnerships and Events Marketing teams

At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here.

Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.