Partnerships and Business Operations Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Facilitate the progression of partnerships from initial agreement or concept through development, launch, and scaling.

• Convert discussions and commitments from partners into specific ownership, actionable items, and subsequent steps.

• Monitor deliverables, assets, approvals, timelines, and dependencies between Wolf and partner teams.

• Prepare for partner meetings, document decisions, and ensure follow-up actions are executed.

• Cultivate relationships with partner teams, becoming a reliable day-to-day counterpart.

• Develop and oversee plans for partner initiatives, products, and launches.

• Coordinate efforts across Product, Engineering, Creative, Marketing, and external teams.

• Organize and sustain visibility of ownership, milestones, decisions, and dependencies.

• Identify and assist in resolving obstacles, ambiguous ownership, delays, and absent decisions.

• Establish success metrics, collect performance data and partner feedback, and derive insights.

• Apply insights gained from partnerships and launches to future endeavors and pinpoint growth prospects.

• Recognize recurring issues and inefficiencies, creating playbooks, workflows, templates, and tools.

• Enhance tracking of commitments, decisions, and future actions.

• Undertake increasingly complex and significant projects as business acumen and trust develop.

⛳️ Requirements

• Approximately 2-5 years of relevant experience (about 24-60 months).

• Outstanding organizational skills and keen attention to detail.

• Quick learning ability to familiarize oneself with new products, technologies, and business challenges.

• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities across diverse personalities and functions.

• Capability to transform ambiguity into actionable steps and determine the next course of action.

• Dependable follow-through and accountability.

• Sound judgment and the ability to work autonomously while knowing when to seek assistance or involve others.

• Openness to tackle both strategic challenges and detailed execution tasks.

• Relevant experience may encompass business or startup operations, strategy and operations, partnerships, program or project management, product operations, consulting, implementation or solutions in media, entertainment, gaming, or technology.

• Proven ownership of a cross-functional project, stakeholder coordination, beneficial process or system, or other intricate work.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to discuss transitioning to a full-time position with benefits following the initial 90-day contract.

• Gradually increasing ownership and responsibility as trust is established.