Senior Partnerships Manager, Media & Data

Location: Hybrid working model with global scope across the UK, EU and US markets; willingness to travel to relevant markets is required.

Company

hirify.global is an affiliate partnership network and part of the Axel Springer group, building an open partner ecosystem and measurement infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build and own a global target list of medium-to-large media publications and publisher groups.
• Lead the full partnership pursuit cycle, including qualification, pitching, negotiation, closing, onboarding and verified event delivery.
• Develop publisher-facing value propositions around new revenue, advertiser demand, insight, benchmarking and full-funnel measurement.
• Coordinate commercial, legal, privacy and technical paths to live, including tracking addenda, data-sharing terms, consent and CDN or edge deployments.
• Build reference cases, partner sales materials and a repeatable playbook for scaling publisher acquisition.
• Coordinate with regional, product, marketing, advertiser-facing and publisher development teams, while representing the programme at industry events.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in commercial, partnership or account leadership roles, with significant publisher-side or media-owner-side experience.
• Established senior network across the media and publishing industry is required.
• Track record of negotiating and closing publisher commercial agreements, including tenancy, CPC, CPA, fixed-fee, data or licensing deals.
• Experience with affiliate and performance ecosystems, publisher monetisation, and senior relationships across commercial, ecommerce, editorial and digital leadership.
• Ability to manage multi-stakeholder deals involving commercial, editorial, legal, privacy and technical teams.
• Fluent English is essential. German or another European language is advantageous.

Nice to have

• Experience with content licensing, AI/LLM discovery, SEO/AEO or data partnership deals.
• International experience across at least two of the UK, US and DACH/EMEA markets.
• Experience speaking at industry events, panels or partner forums.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid Flexi-Office model designed to support collaboration, trust and autonomy.
• Four-day Flexi-Week at full pay, including one lighter or disconnected day per week.
• Monthly work expense contribution and furniture package for a home workspace.
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing coverage.
• Learning and development through hirify.global Academy, peer recognition programmes and an inclusive international culture.