Partnerships Lead

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $145,000–$160,000 base salary per year plus variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an AI recruiting marketplace connecting companies with specialized recruiters and AI agents to make hiring faster and more accurate.

What you will do

• Build and formalize a preferred-partner program for venture capital firms, accelerators, and private equity sponsors.
• Open accelerator and PE channels, including portfolio-wide hiring partnerships and executive or scale-up hiring programs.
• Originate, structure, and close partnerships with platform, talent, and operating partners.
• Activate portfolio companies through co-branded programs, events, newsletters, talent office hours, and warm introductions.
• Build the firm-level CRM and relationship tracking system.
• Work with Sales, Supply, and Marketing while reporting on partner-sourced pipeline, activation, and revenue.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in partnerships, business development, or platform roles.
• Existing relationships with venture platform teams, talent partners, accelerator program leads, or private equity operating partners.
• Experience originating and structuring partnerships from the ground up.
• Understanding of investor portfolio support and vendor recommendation decisions.
• Strong commercial judgment connecting partnerships to pipeline and revenue.
• Clear communication with general partners, founders, and operators, with confidence representing hirify.global publicly.

Nice to have

• Experience in recruiting, talent marketplaces, or HR technology.
• Portfolio operations or talent experience at a venture capital firm.
• Experience at an accelerator, B2B SaaS company, or AI company selling to startups.

Culture & Benefits

• Founding-level ownership as the first partnerships hire.
• Opportunity to build a repeatable channel across hundreds of portfolio companies.
• Variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
• Work on an AI-powered marketplace addressing the global hiring market.