Principal Strategic Product Partnerships Manager

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Team HubSpot's Strategic Partnerships and Business Development team drives innovation and growth by cultivating a diverse portfolio of strategic partners. We create, scale, and manage high-impact partnerships that advance HubSpot’s mission to help millions of organizations grow better.

About the Role As a Principal Partnerships Manager, you will serve as a senior individual contributor, shaping strategy, driving high-value initiatives, and owning executive-level relationships with strategic customers and partners. This role is a critical leadership role between HubSpot’s product and leadership teams, cross-business unit business development functions, and other corporate teams. You will identify, develop, and execute complex partnerships that create measurable business impact and influence the company’s long-term growth trajectory.

You will operate at the highest level of partnership strategy—innovating first-in-category initiatives, fostering cross-functional alignment, and serving as a trusted advisor to HubSpot executives and external senior leaders.

What You'Ll Do

Partnership Strategies and Growth

• Own and grow strategic customer and partner relationships at the executive level, cultivating trust, aligning business priorities, and serving as an escalation point for HubSpot leadership.
• Define and own multi-year growth goals, ensuring organizational buy-in and cross-functional execution
• Execution & Performance
• Shape HubSpot’s category-level partnership strategies and multi-year growth plans. You will apply deep cross-functional expertise (e.g., product-line, segment) to solve complex, cross-team problems, continuously deepening your expertise and sharing learnings.
• Create scalable, insight-driven evaluation frameworks to prioritize new partnership opportunities based on market potential, business impact, and strategic fit.
• Drive internal decision-making and own key functional goals with limited oversight. You will be responsible for ensuring mechanisms are in place to proactively track and maintain progress toward goals.
• Models productive, cross-functional teamwork and trusted to drive alignment across teams with differing perspectives. 

Advanced contractual skills and negotiations

Cross- Functional Influence

Innovation And Growth

Who You Are We are looking for an innovative, strategic, and commercially-minded leader with:

• A proven track record of influencing organizational priorities and shaping market approaches.
• The ability to make things happen quickly and thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced, fluid, and collaborative environment with a strong sense of urgency and tenacity.
• Exceptional judgment and executive presence, with the ability to earn trust quickly.
• A passion for solving complex challenges in fast-paced, evolving markets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing, negotiating, and executing complex business agreements in a large technology organization with top-tier technology partners.
• Demonstrated success influencing C-level decisions and driving organizational strategy.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent experience preferred.
• Strong financial acumen—able to interpret financial statements, build operating P&Ls, and model strategic deals.
• Proven track record of driving success by creating a strategy and leading strong execution in an ambiguous, fast-moving, startup-like environment.

Pay & Benefits

The cash compensation below includes base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are tailored to your skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.

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Annual Cash Compensation Range:$150,000—$240,000 USD

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About Hubspot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software, integrations, and resources customers need to connect marketing, sales, and service. HubSpot's connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers. 

At HubSpot, bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast, stay customer-obsessed, and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer, Be Bold, Learn Fast, Align, Adapt & Go!, and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work, lead, and grow.

We’re building a company where people can do their best work. We focus on brilliant work, not badge swipes. By combining clarity, ownership, and trust, we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress. And we know that when our employees grow, our customers do too.

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