Partnerships Program Manager
About Us
Codeword is a communication design agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences.
We’re a fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers.
Our incredible roster of big and small tech clients trust us to launch their startups, run multi-channel campaigns, grow their user bases, and lead comprehensive PR and marketing initiatives. We’re storytellers and brand engineers, and we love big ideas that serve a real purpose.
Codeword is a remote-first agency, though we have physical offices in NYC and SF that we won’t make you visit.
About Us:
Codeword is a communication agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences.
We’re a fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers.
Our incredible roster of big and small tech clients trust us to launch their startups, run multi-channel campaigns, grow their user bases, and lead comprehensive PR and marketing initiatives. We're storytellers and brand engineers, and we love big ideas that serve a real purpose.
Codeword is a remote-first agency, though we have physical offices in NYC and SF that we won’t make you visit.
About You:
- 7-10 years of experience
- A social impact and partnerships nerd
- Proactive and ambitious about your career
- Not shy about sharing your opinion (without being an A-hole)
- Comfortable with economic development topics and metrics
- Knows how to talk, how to write, how to deck
- Works collaboratively in a “yes and” environment
- Supports multiple partners and can work in agile ways while juggling many plates and deadlines
- Hyper-focused on metrics and relationship building
- Can work with the team leader on decks for leadership review and partnership framing
About This Role:
As Partnership Program Manager, you’ll help shape and drive social impact, CSR, and philanthropic partnership strategies for some of the world’s leading brands.
This includes developing frameworks and narratives that connect business priorities with meaningful global impact—spanning tech, economic development, and private–public partnerships. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build strategies, design partnership approaches, and craft decks and materials that influence at the highest levels.
This role requires strong relationship management, a data-driven mindset, and a knack for turning complex metrics into clear, actionable insights. You’ll work across a range of partners and regions, occasionally supporting clients in Asia.
It’s a hands-on, strategic position that blends storytelling with measurable outcomes—ideal for someone who’s proactive, collaborative, and passionate about using partnerships to drive real-world change.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Create templates to scale the partnership.
- Coordinate partner needs, and inputs.
- Develop and execute partnership strategies that connect client business goals with meaningful social impact.
- Build and maintain strong relationships across sectors, including tech, NGO, and philanthropic partners.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape partnership narratives, strategies, and supporting materials for leadership and client review.
- Translate complex data, metrics, and outcomes into clear insights and actionable strategies.
- Support the rollout and measurement of partnership objectives and results (ORs), ensuring alignment across teams.
- Track performance and impact metrics, providing recommendations to optimize partnership effectiveness.
- Stay current on trends in social impact, economic development, and tech philanthropy to inform strategy.
Your Compensation:
People – that's you! – are the heart of our business, and we believe in pay transparency.
Our budget for this role is $90,000 - $130,000 depending on experience.
Codeword Benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually
- 401k + financial wellness support
- Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services)
- Home office allowance
- Bi-annual Wellness Credits
- Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)
- Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy
A few more things you should know about Codeword
- The Codeword dream: Make good money doing work you care about with people you like.
- We love our clients (they write the checks!), which means maintaining a high bar for the creativity, smarts, responsiveness, and communication skills we offer them.
- We’re around 100 people, big enough to handle large-scale marketing programs, small enough that you’ll have an impact on our culture.
- We’re a friendly team, we look after each other, and we grow our careers together.
- We respect everyone’s personal life. After-hours emails are strongly frowned upon, night and weekend work is very rare, and employees are encouraged to pursue their side-hustles.
- We’re all grownups here, and we trust each other to get the work done, whether at home or in an office or a time zone on the other side of the world.
- We believe in defaulting to openness. Our calendars, our salary tiers, and our doors are open for all to see. (Except for secret client stuff, which we guard with our lives.)
- We’re a proud member of the global WE Communications family.
- Equal Opportunity: Codeword provides equal employment opportunity and doesn’t discriminate against employees or applicants because of age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or other legally protected class status.
- Diversity and Inclusion: Codeword works hard to foster a diverse team and an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
We aren’t a traditional agency, so we like to hire people who don’t necessarily fit the agency mold or check all the “right” boxes. If you’re on the fence about applying, please do!
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