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Supabase

Open-source backend as a service platform

Director of Technology Partnerships

Business Development & PartnershipsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Significant experience in technology partnerships, business development, or ecosystem leadership at a developer tools, cloud, infrastructure, or SaaS company.
  • Experience leading and developing partner-facing teams, including managers or senior individual contributors, while balancing strategic direction with hands-on execution.
  • A track record of building partnerships that produced measurable revenue, product adoption, or customer growth.
  • Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements and understanding partnership economics, including revenue share, referrals, and consumption-based models.
  • Experience working closely with Product and Engineering to ship and grow technical integrations, and the ability to engage credibly with technical teams, including those at AI labs.
  • Ability to build relationships with executives while earning the trust of product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
  • Ability to use data to prioritize opportunities, assess partner performance, and make decisions when attribution is imperfect.
  • Comfort building in an evolving environment, communicating in writing, and working asynchronously across time zones.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop the Integrations and Marketplace partnerships teams, including team leads and partner managers.
  • Set strategy for strategic technology partnerships, marketplace categories, and emerging ecosystem opportunities.
  • Define team objectives, partner coverage, investment priorities, and operating cadence, balancing high-touch strategic partnerships with scalable programs.
  • Build a culture of ownership, commercial discipline, and strong cross-functional execution.
  • Drive revenue from technology integrations through partner-driven customer acquisition, product consumption, expansion, retention, co-sell opportunities, and commercial arrangements.
  • Own the commercial performance of the technology partnerships and marketplace portfolio, including forecasting and reporting on progress, risks, and return on investment.
  • Build and deepen relationships with AI labs and identify and execute high-impact partnership opportunities with their product, engineering, business development, and executive teams.
  • Develop executive relationships with strategic partners across developer tools, cloud, and adjacent infrastructure.
  • Lead or support negotiations for complex partnerships, including integration, referral, revenue-sharing, and joint go-to-market agreements.
  • Help partner managers build joint business plans that connect partner priorities to measurable outcomes for Supabase and its customers.
  • Lead and develop the Marketplace team, setting its commercial and partner strategy and holding the team accountable for outcomes.
  • Guide the Marketplace team in identifying developer capabilities, recruiting partners, and helping partners launch and grow.
  • Set priorities and allocate resources across strategic, high-touch partners and scalable paths for emerging and self-serve partners.
  • Ensure effective work with Product and Engineering on integration quality, partner onboarding, discovery, activation, and developer experience across product surfaces.
  • Enable the team to work with Marketing and Sales to launch integrations, enable teams, and drive ongoing adoption.
  • Establish measures for partner-sourced and influenced pipeline, integration adoption, revenue, consumption, retention, and marketplace performance.
  • Work with Finance, Data, and Partner Operations to improve attribution, reporting, forecasting, and partner revenue processes.
  • Represent partner and customer perspectives in product and go-to-market planning, aligning stakeholders around shared priorities.
  • Identify risks early, remove blockers, and communicate decisions and outcomes clearly to leadership.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience building or scaling a developer marketplace, integration ecosystem, or partner platform.
  • Experience working with AI large language models, AI app builders, databases, open-source products, or developer infrastructure.
  • A background in software development and an understanding of how developers build and integrate products.
  • Experience growing both a small number of strategic partnerships and a broader, scalable partner program.
  • A strong network in the San Francisco Bay Area technology ecosystem.

About the Company

Supabase

Open-source backend as a service platform

What Supabase does: Supabase provides an open-source backend-as-a-service that gives developers real-time databases, authentication, and storage in the cloud so they can build scalable applications quickly and efficiently. How its product works: It offers managed backend services (database with real-time updates, user authentication, file storage) that integrate with an existing frontend or mobile app via APIs; developers can use a freemium model, starting with free basic services and upgrading to paid plans as usage or feature needs grow. How it differs from competitors: Its open-source nature allows deeper customization and community-driven improvements, and it emphasizes high uptime and reliability for mission-critical apps, with a seamless integration into existing workflows. What its goal is: To simplify and speed up the development of scalable apps by providing a ready-to-use, flexible backend that developers can customize and extend.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$1.1B
Headquarters
Singapore, Singapore
Founded
2020

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