Principal Partner Development Manager, Technology Partnerships

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced and innovative business development and partnerships specialist to help accelerate MongoDB’s vision by building and scaling high-impact partnerships with strategic and complementary AI and enterprise infrastructure providers. They will collaborate with Product teams on integrations, define joint value propositions, and drive co-selling motions to make MongoDB the default data layer across these partners. This is a high-impact role requiring expertise in partnership development, enterprise sales, technical acumen, and the ability to collaborate across teams and organizations. The position is remote and open to candidates located in North America.

What You’ll Do

• Partnership Development: Identify, recruit, and activate strategic partnerships across complementary AI infrastructure. Negotiate effective deal structures and maintain MongoDB’s relevance and prominence within these ecosystems
• Partner Success: Design and lead initiatives that drive adoption of validated integrations, ensure high-quality results, and maintain strong alignment with partner and MongoDB goals
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with teams across MongoDB—including Product, Sales, Pre-Sales, Marketing, and Legal—alongside partner organizations, to deliver impactful outcomes through technical validations, joint roadmaps, and exceptional developer experiences
• Measurement of Success: Establish metrics to measure the effectiveness of AI-focused ecosystem partnerships and report on MongoDB’s impact on top-of-funnel growth. Refine strategies based on data-driven insights
• Community Engagement: Represent MongoDB at relevant industry events, conferences, and communities, ensuring resources and content are accessible to target audiences

Who You Are

• Experienced: 8+ years of experience in business development, partnerships, product management, or program management, with a demonstrated ability to manage complex technical initiatives from ideation to execution
• Strategic & Tactical: Proven ability to think both at a high level and dive into details to solve problems and create opportunities
• Skilled Negotiator: Experience negotiating complex agreements with partners and driving their implementation to deliver exceptional outcomes.
• Technically Strong: You have a technical aptitude to understand AI infrastructure workflows and developer ecosystems, paired with analytical skills that help guide decision-making
• Collaborative Communicator: Strong verbal and written communication skills—tailored to engage audiences ranging from developers to executives across internal and external teams
• Program Leader: Proven ability to align stakeholders, direct cross-functional processes, and execute high-value initiatives that drive measurable results
• Self-Starter: You thrive in fast-paced environments, take ownership of initiatives, and can independently deliver results while rallying others around high-priority opportunities

Success Measures

• 3 Months: Gain a deep understanding of MongoDB’s products, ecosystem strategy, and internal workflows while building relationships with key stakeholders for 2-3 known priority workstreams
• 6 Months: Establish an internal working team, prioritize initial partnerships, initiate outreach, define joint value propositions, and execute on some quick wins
• 12 Months: Successfully lead multiple cross-functional initiatives, demonstrating measurable business impact and meaningful adoption through key AI infrastructure partnerships

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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