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Senior Partner Manager - Technology Partnerships

Chainguard · United States - Remote · Remote

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About Chainguard

Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of your modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

As a Senior Partner Manager on our Technology Partnerships team, you will own the Chainguard integrations program: how we evaluate, scope, certify, and maintain integrations, and how we prioritize them against customer demand and company strategy. You will drive that work across partner engineering, Product, and a dedicated Solutions Engineer, and you will be the person partners work with from first conversation through launch. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Alliances.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years in technology partnerships, partner management, integration program management, or partner solutions
  • Technical enough to scope an integration and evaluate a partner's proposed design. This role does not build or test, but you should not depend on others to know where a program stands
  • Working knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and cloud native infrastructure
  • Familiarity with vulnerability management tooling and how scanners work
  • Program management experience. You have taken ambiguous, multi-stakeholder work and given it a process and an owner
  • Experience with partner agreements and commercial terms alongside Legal
More about this role

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

As a Senior Partner Manager on our Technology Partnerships team, you will own the Chainguard integrations program: how we evaluate, scope, certify, and maintain integrations, and how we prioritize them against customer demand and company strategy. You will drive that work across partner engineering, Product, and a dedicated Solutions Engineer, and you will be the person partners work with from first conversation through launch.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Alliances.

  • Own the technology partner integrations program, including the standards...

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