How to hire a partnership program manager

How to hire a partnership program manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step partnership program manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a partnership program manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new partnership program manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the partnership program manager you need to hire. Certain partnership program manager roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

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   A partnership program manager's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, partnership program managers from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   The following list breaks down different types of partnership program managers and their corresponding salaries.

   Type of Partnership Program Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Partnership Program Manager	Advertising, promotions, and marketing managers plan programs to generate interest in products or services. They work with art directors, sales agents, and financial staff members.	$20-69
   Director Of Clinical Operations	A director of clinical operations is responsible for monitoring the overall operations of a clinic facility, ensuring the efficiency of staff performance in providing the best quality care services for the patients. Directors of clinical operations enforce safety guidelines and security procedures during operations for everyone's strict compliance to prevent hazards and unforeseen circumstances within the premises... Show more	$40-95
   Manager, Strategy	A strategy manager is a professional who reviews a company's objectives for growth and works with executives to formulate actionable plans to achieve these objectives. To make comprehensive recommendations, strategy managers must conduct data analysis of the organization as well as the overall industry... Show more	$37-73

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Project Management
   • Program Management
   • Partner Program
   • Salesforce
   • Data Analysis
   • Business Development
   • External Stakeholders
   • Partner Relationships
   • Channel Marketing
   • Program Development
   • Product Management
   • HR
   • CRM
   • Business Reviews

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   Responsibilities:

   • Lead company safety communications to promote awareness and understanding of EHS requirements.
   • Guide all OEM technology hardware and software partners through the certification process achieving guarantee compatibility with Saflink products.
   • Manage implementation of referrals, coordinate assignment of new physicians and create support network for transitioning patients during clinic closure.
   • Measure the success of campaigns through ROI, KPIs, and tracking analysis.
   • Maintain company contact database via ZOHO CRM.
   • Deliver product details, scoped the resources & ROI

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your partnership program manager job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A partnership program manager salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, partnership program managers' average salary in wyoming is 56% less than in massachusetts.
   • Seniority. Entry-level partnership program managers earn 70% less than senior-level partnership program managers.
   • Certifications. A partnership program manager with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a partnership program manager's salary.

   Average partnership program manager salary

   $79,621yearly

   $38.28 hourly rate

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   Entry-level partnership program manager salary

   $43,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 15, 2025

   Average partnership program manager salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	Massachusetts	$110,520	$53
   2	New York	$110,106	$53
   3	New Jersey	$102,237	$49
   4	Rhode Island	$93,339	$45
   5	North Carolina	$93,327	$45
   6	Virginia	$91,552	$44
   7	District of Columbia	$89,975	$43
   8	Maryland	$88,768	$43
   9	California	$83,467	$40
   10	Minnesota	$83,079	$40
   11	Pennsylvania	$82,620	$40
   12	Illinois	$77,786	$37
   13	Oregon	$74,023	$36
   14	Ohio	$70,555	$34
   15	North Dakota	$69,772	$34
   16	Indiana	$66,361	$32
   17	Missouri	$64,811	$31
   18	Arizona	$62,359	$30
   19	Texas	$61,591	$30
   20	Georgia	$58,583	$28

   Average partnership program manager salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Boston Consulting Group	$144,599	$69.52	1
   2	Apple	$136,153	$65.46	89
   3	Meta	$134,301	$64.57	742
   4	Cloudflare	$133,197	$64.04	26
   5	Databricks	$130,221	$62.61	22
   6	Google	$129,630	$62.32	306
   7	PayPal	$126,418	$60.78	14
   8	Microsoft	$124,920	$60.06	213
   9	Citi	$123,461	$59.36	15
   10	General Motors	$120,812	$58.08	91
   11	VMware	$119,296	$57.35	1
   12	Square	$116,980	$56.24
   13	Hall & Evans	$116,488	$56.00
   14	Chubb	$114,244	$54.92	5
   15	Red Hat	$114,025	$54.82	5
   16	NW Natural	$113,317	$54.48
   17	Columbus College of Art & Design	$113,047	$54.35
   18	Trend Micro	$112,949	$54.30	5
   19	The Aerospace Corporation	$109,300	$52.55
   20	QuintilesIMS	$108,554	$52.19	37

4. Writing a partnership program manager job description

   A job description for a partnership program manager role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a partnership program manager job description:

   Partnership program manager job description example

   Your Impact
   
   Make our North Star clear: Coordinate the alignment of our people strategies across product areas and drive the integration into an overall Product People strategy; track and monitor progress against it through centralized project planning and reporting of quarterly metrics.
   
   Plan for excellence: Drive the execution, operational rigor and continuous improvement of our core people practices across the Product org -- employee onboarding, talent development, performance elevation, pay planning, internal mobility, etc. Facilitate across our product areas to improve coordination, leverage best practices, and make each area better.
   
   Drive improvement initiatives: Lead projects to solve our most critical people, org, or culture challenges of a rapidly scaling Product team. Collaborate with key stakeholders, gather quantitative and qualitative data, and do your own research to define the problem or opportunity clearly, deeply understand root causes, recommend solutions that are data-led, research-baked or wholly innovative, and drive those solutions through the product org in partnership with the People Business Partners and COE's across the People Team.
   
   Your Responsibilities
   
   Drive the annual planning process across the Product People Team to ensure alignment of a clear and well articulated Product People Strategy. Collaborate across key stakeholders for input and contributions to our strategy doc with detailed implementation plans and timelines.
   
   Own and manage the Quarterly Business Review process for the Product People Team, ensuring comprehensive review of progress and alignment of quarterly priorities. Work closely with our Product People Analytics business partner to link meaningful metrics and insights that focus our actions.
   
   Lead our monthly Product People Team meeting agenda to drive alignment on key priorities, collaboration and execution.
   
   Act as the main point of contact for the Product People Team as it relates to interfacing with COE's on cross People team initiatives and programs, leveraging your deep understanding of the Product org to make corporate initiatives more successful for the Product teams.
   
   Coordinate key programs with COE's and Product PBP's to drive consistency execution of desired outcomes across the Product org. Keep Product PBP's informed of key initiatives, changes, resources, etc. to enable them to better support our businesses and deliver on our strategies.
   
   Lead projects to help us scale up a fast growing Product team. Define the problem, collaborate on objectives/desired outcomes, deep dive into data and research to understand key drivers, identify recommendations, and work with stakeholders to execute solutions.
   
   

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5. Post your job

   To find partnership program managers for your business, try out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important talent pools for any company is its current employees.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and your current work to ask if they know any partnership program managers they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit entry-level partnership program managers with the right educational background.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have more than 3.5 billion users, and they're a great place for company branding and reaching potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your partnership program manager job on Zippia to find and recruit partnership program manager candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as swipe files, exit five, marketinghire, american marketing association.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting partnership program managers requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   Remember to include a few questions that allow candidates to expand on their strengths in their own words. Asking about their unique skills might reveal things you'd miss otherwise. At this point, good candidates can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new partnership program manager

   Once you've found the partnership program manager candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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