About the role
The Strategic Partnerships Manager at Taskly (many teams call it Partnerships Manager or Business Development Manager, Partnerships) builds the relationships that bring posters and Taskers to Taskly without ad spend. A partner might be a payments company, a property-management group, a retail chain, a community network or a university. You find the few worth the effort, agree what each side gives and keep the partnership working week after week. It suits someone who prefers a few strong partners to a long list of weak ones.
You would work with the founder on which partners to pursue, and with marketplace operations on whether a partner brings the right Taskers for the right city. Six months in, success looks like two or three live partnerships, each with a clear number attached. It also looks like a repeatable way to pick, pitch and run the next ones.
What you’ll do
- Map and rank partner categories in India, Canada and the UAE: payments and fintech, property managers, retail, community groups, colleges and universities.
- Open conversations with senior contacts. Pitch a specific joint plan in a one-page proposal that says what each side gives and gets.
- Negotiate commercial terms, including referral arrangements, co-marketing and limits on sharing data, with legal and compliance input.
- Launch each partnership with a tracked link, a partner page, a 30-day plan and one named owner on the partner’s side.
- Measure each partnership on what it brings, such as applications, approved Taskers and tasks posted. End the ones that do not work, and say so plainly to the partner.
- Adapt every offer to the market. Payment goes directly in India, and Taskly holds it until the task is done in Canada.
- Work with marketing, operations and engineering on what each partner needs, from tracking to a co-branded page.
What you’ll need
- 5+ years in partnerships, business development or enterprise sales, with at least one partnership you built from first call to signed agreement.
- A result you can state in numbers: sign-ups, revenue or active users that a partnership brought in.
- Experience negotiating referral, revenue-share or co-marketing terms, and writing simple agreements with legal review.
- Ease with senior stakeholders at larger organizations, and the patience to keep a slow deal moving, with a follow-up rhythm that never turns into nagging.
- Working knowledge of at least one partner sector: payments or fintech, property, retail or higher education.
Education: A degree is welcome but not required. Partnerships you built and what they produced matter more.
Nice to have
- Partnerships experience at a marketplace (Airbnb, Uber, Urban Company, Swiggy, Airtasker, TaskRabbit, Upwork) or another two-sided platform.
- Relationships with university career or entrepreneurship offices in more than one of our countries.
- Experience with payments partners, affiliate programs or referral platforms.
- A track record of ending a partnership well when the numbers did not justify it.
Skills and tools
- Strategic Partnerships
- Business Development
- Channel Partnerships
- Partnership Marketing
- Contract Negotiation
- Revenue Share Agreements
- Stakeholder Management
- Fintech Partnerships
- Higher Education Partnerships
- Affiliate Programs
- Go-to-Market
- HubSpot
Where you’ll work
- Remote. Fully remote. Open to people who live and can legally work in India, the United States, Canada or the United Arab Emirates. You work from your own country, so there is no relocation and no visa to arrange.
- Shared hours. The team overlaps for two hours each weekday: 8:30–10:30 am Eastern · afternoon in Dubai, evening in India. The rest of your day is yours to arrange.
How we hire
- 1Apply in about five minutes: your resume and a few questions
- 2A 45-minute conversation with the person you’d work beside
- 3One paid day on a real problem
- 4A decision in writing, with the reason
A person replies to every application within ten working days, even if it’s a no.
About Taskly
Taskly is a marketplace for getting anything done. Someone posts a task in their own words — typed, spoken or as a photo — and people who have been reviewed and approved send offers at a firm price. They pick one, and it gets done: a TV mounted, a website built, a parent taught to use their phone. We’re live in Canada and India and opening to more countries, built by a small team that works remotely across India, the US, Canada and the UAE.
Questions about this role
Straight answers to what people ask most.
Is the Strategic Partnerships Manager role remote?
Yes, fully remote. You can work from India, the United States, Canada or the United Arab Emirates, and the team overlaps for two hours each weekday: 8:30–10:30 am Eastern · afternoon in Dubai, evening in India.
How much experience do I need?
About 5+ years. It’s a guide, not a cut-off: if you can do the work described here, apply.
What does the Strategic Partnerships Manager role pay?
Pay isn’t listed here yet. It depends on the country you work from and your experience, and it’s discussed openly in your first conversation.
How do I apply?
Upload your resume on the application page and answer a few short questions. It takes about five minutes, with no cover letter and no account. A person replies within ten working days, yes or no.
What does the hiring process look like?
A 45-minute conversation with the person you’d work beside, then one paid day on a real problem, then a decision in writing, with the reason.
Do I need contacts at big companies already?
No. We care more that you have built a partnership from nothing and can show what it produced than which logos you know.
Something else? Ask it in your application. A person reads it and answers within ten working days.
We don’t use AI to screen, score or rank applications: a person reads every one. If you upload a resume, AI reads it only to pre-fill your form, and you check every field before you send.
Taskly is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of every background, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and nationality, and we don’t ask about any of them. If anything about the process doesn’t work for you, tell us in your application and we’ll change it.
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