Ning: Director of Strategic Relationships

Location: New York, Los Angeles or Palo Alto

URL: http://www.ning.com

Director of Strategic Relationships

Opportunity:

• Evangelize the full possibilities of the Ning Platform for web designers and development firms.

• Build and sustain relationships across a broad spectrum of design, development and social media consultancy firms that can help creative people turn ideas into reality quickly with the best software for social networks in the market.

• Ensure that Your Own Social Network on Ning continues to get better and better and has everything needed to give designers and development firms what they need to create amazing social networks on the Ning Platform.

• Join a great team at a rapidly growing company creating software that matters.

Location:

New York City, Los Angeles or Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Ning Evangelism & Strategic Relationships Development – Design and Development Partnerships

• Identify and build relationship with design firms, development teams and social media consultants in their efforts to get the most out of the Ning Platform.

• Work closely with the Vice President of Strategic Relationships to define partnership structure and communicate the benefits of Ning to this set of firms.

• Create and manage an incentive program that encourages designers and development firms to work with the Ning platform.

• Report weekly on your progress in building and maintaining your relationships with this set of partners.

• Ongoing Account Management

• Provide ongoing support and account management for design firms, development teams and social media consultants using the Ning Platform.

• Serve as a key resource to designers and development firms in managing our partners’ questions. Work closely with Ning’s Advocacy, Operations and Engineering teams to help find swift solutions.

• Product Feedback & Iteration

• Rapidly communicate feedback from your relationships into product management, the product roadmap, and Ning company priorities.

Qualifications:

• You have 5+ years of direct experience managing relationships with design and development firms, from within a software company, design firm, or development firm.

• You are an engineer or designer by training. You can dive into technical specifics as well as add strategic value to partners.

• You have outstanding written communication and presentation skills.

• You love building new relationships and maintaining old ones.

To apply: Please send a resume to yoonie@ning.com