Hiring: Partnerships & Alliances Director Company: TripleLift Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:45:26 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Portfolio Management, Project Management About the job Experience: •7+ years of professional experience in programmatic advertising, adtech, or media agency partnership management. Required Skills: •Deal Desk & Workflow Leadership: Co-leads day-to-day management of TripleLift’s Preferred Partner Deal Desk alongside Finance and RevOps, serving as the ultimate business owner for commercial review workflows and contract tracking. •Operational Optimization: Deeply understand internal workflows to identify and implement incremental, proactive tweaks that optimize commercial processes, tracking speed, and governance. •Reporting & Strategic Execution: Maintain data accuracy and hygiene across Preferred Partner performance dashboards, translating BI/RevOps metrics into strategic insights and actionable execution plans. •Commercial Framework Development: Partner closely with the VP of Preferred Partnerships and Triplelift’s CFO to optimize our existing deal mechanisms and develop new structures that maximize TL’s profitability and the value provided to our clients. •Integrated Partner Engagement Facilitation: Spearhead the preparation and delivery of Agency Holding Company QBRs and other Leadership engagements, pulling regional sales and Partner Management leads into the narrative to match top-down strategy with ground-level, bottoms-up campaign performance. Qualifications: •Mandatory Agency Partnership Background: Must have directly held an Agency Partnership or Alliance role in the past, with a proven track record of successfully navigating the unique structural complexities, internal politics, and matrixed layers of major Agency HoldCos. •Established Executive Rolodex: Holds deep, existing relationships with key programmatic stake-holders, Centers of Excellence (COEs), and investment/data decision-makers across the "Big Six" holding companies. •Strong baseline of commercial operational experience. Fluent in running structured processes like a commercial Deal Desk, pipeline tracking systems, or contract operations. •Analytical literacy to interpret dashboard data, maintain pipeline sheets, and spot commercial macro-trends without needing to build backend data models from scratch. •A collaborative, service-oriented mindset. This role is built to enable, clarify, and fuel the regional sales verticals, not to close business in a vacuum. In addition to sales support, this role also requires an extensive cross-functional involvement with Legal, Customer Success, RevOps, Finance and Product. •Pay is based on various non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to experience, education, and skills. •Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits (subject to the terms of applicable plans/policies/agreements, which will be made available to you after commencing employment). Compensation: •$130,000 - $175,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Competitive benefits and rewards package •As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!