Director, Technology Partnerships

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About the Team

Our Corporate Development team at O'Reilly is a vibrant, energetic, and dedicated

group committed to driving the company's growth and profitability. We are a small

team of strategic thinkers, relationship builders, and technology enthusiasts who are

passionate about creating and nurturing partnerships that advance O'Reilly Media's corporate and product development initiatives.

Our mission is to identify, develop, and establish strategic partnerships that enhance

our product capabilities and deliver exceptional value to our customers, partners,

and internal stakeholders. We work closely with various functional leaders across the

organization, including product development, engineering, sales, legal, and finance,

to ensure alignment with our strategic goals.

Our core values revolve around collaboration, product innovation, and integrity. We

believe in open communication, the power of diverse perspectives, and the

importance of building trust within our team and with our partners. We are driven by

results and continuously strive to exceed expectations.

What sets our team apart within O'Reilly is our unique blend of business acumen,

technological expertise, and deep understanding of professional technical and

business learning. We are not just about closing deals; we are about forging

meaningful, long-lasting partnerships that open new markets, accelerate market

share growth, and make O'Reilly's product offering highly competitive and

successful.

As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-

paced environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities. You

will be part of a global organization that values your unique skills and experiences

and offers opportunities for professional growth and development.

About the Role

You will serve as the Director of Technology Partnerships focused on technology

partnerships that enhance our eLearning platform capabilities and value delivery to

customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. This position reports directly to the

Chief Corporate Development Officer and will guide the identification, development,

and establishment of strategic partnerships that align with and advance O’Reilly

Media’s corporate and platform product development initiatives to achieve corporate

growth targets.

In your role, you’ll actively build and nurture relationships with external technology

partners, and be a trusted advisor to and work in collaboration with many functional

leaders throughout the organization, including product development, engineering,

sales, legal, and finance.

Your focus is to identify relevant opportunities and recruit high-potential partnerships

that deliver technical capabilities with solutions that address unmet market needs,

accelerates market share growth, opens new markets, and generally makes

O’Reilly’s SaaS product offering highly competitive and successful, resulting in the

company's growth and profitability.

A successful candidate will possess a unique combination of skills, bringing together

a firm understanding of and experience with partnership development and a strong

understanding of modern, SaaS-based technology and systems integration

possibilities, all rooted in an understanding of current and future technology trends

and their implications as they pertain to professional learning.

This role will challenge you to bring those skills together to identify opportunities and

potential technology and service partners, build out proposals, and use your

interpersonal and negotiation skills to progress initial conversations into formalized

contractual relationships. You’ll get to take these ideas full-circle, partnering with

external partners and internal functional leads to drive the implementation and

ensure a smooth transition from idea to operation.

Top candidates will have worked in a structured and rigorous environment, whether

in a corporate culture, later-stage startup environment (e.g. reporting to an executive

management team), product management and/or consulting agency. Candidates

must have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, product,

and technical challenges, convey compelling data-driven decisions, and work

collaboratively to build consensus with both internal and external stakeholders.

A keen sense of ownership, drive, and scrappiness is a must, as is the ability to

successfully bridge external partner relationships and O’Reilly’s global organization

to achieve results.

What You’ll Do
• Develop and implement strategic business development plans aligned with

corporate objectives to expand the company's customer base and ensure

its strong market presence.
• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new

products and competitive service offerings.
• Identify, establish, and nurture relationships with potential external partner

organizations.
• Build and maintain strong, trusted professional relationships with functional

area leads.
• Work closely with identified external partners, senior-level leaders, and

internal stakeholders to ideate, quantify, and develop impactful, multi-

faceted growth opportunities that are aligned with the company’s strategic

objectives.
• Use business acumen to ascertain opportunities likely to be most

beneficial to the company by analyzing market performance and sourcing

disparate data sets.
• Consult with partner leaders / stakeholders on business case

development, creation of enablement strategies, budgeting, resource

allocation and implementation strategy.
• Develop business plans for internal use at the appropriate level of detail to

effectively communicate the plan vision across internal stakeholders.
• These will include market analysis, value proposition, description of the

initiative, high level implementation plan, organizational considerations,

scenario-based financial forecasts and projections, and risks.
• Create partner-facing proposals and move conversations from idea stage

through negotiations to close partnership deals.
• Develop and negotiate contracts in partnership with senior management

and legal teams.
• Work closely with external partners and internal stakeholders to ensure

alignment and engagement on partnership implementation, milestone

achievement, and projected outcomes.
• Develop go-to-market strategies in partnership with external partner and

internal stakeholders, and tenaciously promotes O’Reilly partner offerings

through cooperative initiatives.
• Own and manage key relationships with partner(s), transitioning

operational and/or business ownership when and as appropriate.
• Provide transparency through regular reporting on important metrics,

including opportunities, status, alignment, technical and business

feasibility, progress against projected impacts, and goal attainment.
• Keep up-to-date on current and future technology and business industry

market trends.

What You’ll Have

Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, or a related fields
• In lieu of degree, equivalent education and/or experience may be considered

With Bachelor's degree:
• 6+ years of experience in Partnerships and/or Business Development

roles
• Proven track record of identifying new partnership opportunities and

closing deals
• Contextualized understanding of current and future technology trends and

their implications
• Strong understanding of technology and systems integration possibilities
• Firm understanding of and experience with partnership development

lifecycle
• Strong business acumen with a strategic thinking and planning ability
• Excellent negotiation and supervision skills
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build

relationships with internal stakeholders
• Strong reasoning skills and business acumen to help guide various

analyses
• Demonstrated creativity in solutions designs
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed team environment
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a willingness to think "outside the box "to find innovative solutions

Preferred:
• A Master's of Business Administration is a plus
• Practical knowledge in professional technical and business learning

spanning various modalities
• Understanding of one or more sales and marketing methodologies such as the Challenger Methodology

Additional Information:
• Salary Range: $180,000 - $200,000
• At this time, O'Reilly Media Inc. is not able to provide visa sponsorship or provide any immigration support (i.e. H-1B, STEM, OPT, CPT, EAD and Permanent Residency process)