Lead and scale Metabase's partnerships with AI platforms and data warehouse vendors. Build multithreaded relationships across seller/field and leadership levels, design co-selling/co-marketing motions that drive pipeline, negotiate strategic priorities, create repeatable partnership systems, and surface partner needs to Sales, Marketing, and Product.
Job Description
We're hiring our first Head of Partnerships to own and grow the relationships that matter most to Metabase: the AI platforms and data warehouse vendors our customers build on every day. You'll work both ends of these relationships — building alignment with partner leadership teams, and building trust with individual sellers and solutions engineers who influence deals in the field. This is a senior, high-ownership role for someone who's built a partnerships function from the ground up before and wants to do it again, at a company loved by hundreds of thousands in the community.
What you’ll do:- Own and deepen Metabase's relationships with our key technical and go-to-market partners, with a near-term focus on major AI vendors and data warehouse providers
- Build multi-threaded relationships at both the seller/field level and the partner leadership level, so Metabase stays top-of-mind at every layer of the partnership
- Design and run co-selling and co-marketing motions that turn partner relationships into pipeline, not just goodwill
- Represent Metabase in strategic conversations with partners ; negotiating priorities, resolving friction, and identifying where deeper technical or commercial integration creates mutual value
- Build the systems, cadences, and reporting that turn partnerships from a set of relationships into a repeatable, measurable function
- Identify and evaluate new partnership opportunities as Metabase's ecosystem grows
- Act as the internal voice of our partners ; surfacing their roadmaps, priorities, and constraints to Sales, Marketing, and Product
- 8+ years in partnerships, business development, or a related go-to-market role, with real ownership of partner relationships end-to-end
- Experience building a partnerships function at a small, scaling startup — you've operated with limited playbooks and built the process as you went, not just executed an existing one
- Comfortable operating at multiple altitudes: equally credible in a room with an AE or SE as in a room with a VP or Head of Partnerships
- A track record of turning partner relationships into measurable pipeline and revenue, not just logos on a slide
- Excellent written and verbal communicator who can represent Metabase credibly to technical and commercial audiences alike
- Bonus: existing relationships within the AI or data warehouse ecosystems
- Bonus: experience in open-source, developer tools, or data infrastructure companies
- Ownership
- Comfortable with experiments
- Ability to create from scratch
- Comfort at different altitudes (IC to VP)
Compensation
The US base salary range for this role is $175K–$250K annually, plus equity and benefits.
Compensation is determined by role, level, location, and individual qualifications, including skills, experience, and scope of responsibility. Pay may vary by geographic location and other job-related factors.
The US base salary range for this role is $175K–$250K annually, plus equity and benefits.
Compensation is determined by role, level, location, and individual qualifications, including skills, experience, and scope of responsibility. Pay may vary by geographic location and other job-related factors.
Benefits
We offer meaningful equity and a comprehensive US benefits package, including fully employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance (with 75% coverage for dependents), a 401(k) with employer match available to enroll after the first 30 days, flexible and unlimited paid time off including sick time, and an asynchronous, remote-first environment.
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