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Laika

End-to-end security compliance audit platform

Strategic Partnerships Program Manager

Business Development & PartnershipsPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeUnited States

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of experience in strategic partnerships, ecosystem growth, alliances, business development, or partner-led growth in B2B SaaS.
  • Demonstrated success owning pipeline, bookings, ARR, or another meaningful revenue target through partnerships.
  • Experience with major technology ecosystems such as GRC or security platforms, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or SaaS ISVs.
  • Strong understanding of B2B co-selling and professional services sales funnels.
  • Ability to diagnose funnel performance, forecast results, and make investment decisions from data.
  • Ability to enable and influence Sales teams and mobilize cross-functional resources without direct authority.
  • Experience with partner tools such as Crossbeam and Suger or comparable partner relationship management tools, and cloud or partner marketplace administration.

Responsibilities

  • Own strategic go-to-market relationships with Vanta, Drata, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and priority independent software vendor partners.
  • Develop repeatable referral, co-sell, account-mapping, marketplace, and joint go-to-market motions.
  • Build relationships across partner executives, sellers, Marketing, and Customer Success teams.
  • Identify shared accounts, whitespace, and high-propensity opportunities.
  • Develop joint campaigns, account-based marketing plays, field activations, and creative programs that generate demand.
  • Build partner-specific sales plays, talk tracks, account strategies, and rules of engagement.
  • Create seller-to-seller relationships between Thoropass and strategic partners.
  • Enable Account Executives to identify when and how to activate partners within opportunities.
  • Join strategic deals where partner involvement can improve win rate, deal size, or velocity.
  • Own performance across the full funnel, from referrals and sales-qualified leads through sales-qualified opportunities, pipeline, wins, and annual recurring revenue.
  • Analyze conversion, velocity, average contract value, partner productivity, and campaign performance to identify what is and is not working.
  • Partner with Marketing Operations and Revenue Operations on attribution, routing, dashboards, and reporting.
  • Use account mapping and ecosystem intelligence to identify revenue opportunities.
  • Turn data into clear recommendations and action.
  • Travel approximately 25–30%.

About the Company

Laika

End-to-end security compliance audit platform

Laika helps businesses manage compliance and information security through a platform called Thororpass that covers SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and PCI DSS. It handles end-to-end audits using a combination of technology and expert auditors, adapting to a company’s current compliance stage and scaling as needs grow. It differentiates itself by offering an all-in-one platform for multiple frameworks paired with human expertise to speed up and improve audits. Its goal is to make compliance worry-free, help teams get compliant on the first try, and free up resources for strategy and growth while security scales with the business.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Series C
Total funding
$98M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2019

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