Strategic Partnerships Development Manager

Strategic Partnerships Development Manager - MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT

Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)

Temp Contract: 9 months (15/12/2025 – 12/09/2026)

Rate: £51.92 per hour (Inside IR35)

Hours: 40 per week

My client is a global tech powerhouse, they are looking for a Strategic Partnerships Development Manager to join a high-performing EMEA team responsible for managing and growing relationships with some of the largest mobile app developers across gaming and non-gaming sectors. This is a fast-paced, commercially focused role where you’ll drive partner success, influence senior stakeholders, and help shape growth strategy across a significant portfolio.

This position sits within a team of nine and supports a diverse group of priority partners—working across the full partnerships organisation depending on business needs. You’ll play a key role during a maternity leave period, operating as an individual contributor while collaborating closely with leadership, technical specialists, and commercial teams.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the end-to-end partner experience, from pitching and contract negotiation through to onboarding, integration, and ongoing success.
• Develop and execute partner strategies, including opportunity identification, industry research, and contribution to product and market insights.
• Build and maintain strategic, C-level relationships across major app developers to drive adoption of monetisation and advertising solutions.
• Manage partner engagement through performance tracking, forecasting, reporting, and insight generation.
• Advocate for partners internally while ensuring world-class service, issue resolution, and long-term alignment.
• Contribute to the development of new analytics and reporting infrastructure to inform business development and partner prioritisation.
• Help influence wider cross-functional teams and contribute to best-practice case studies, competitive insights, and partner enablement.

What They Are Looking For (Non-Negotiable)

• Deep experience in the mobile app ecosystem — ideally 8–10 years within app development, app monetisation, mobile partnerships, or app-focused commercial roles.
• Strong understanding of mobile ad monetisation platforms, with hands-on familiarity such as AdMob, AppLovin, Mintegral, Meta, or similar.
• Demonstrated analytical capability — not a data scientist, but someone who has acted as an analyst or used BI tools to interpret complex datasets.
• Proven success in partner management, commercial growth, or revenue-driving roles (KPIs comparable to sales / growth metrics).
• Experience partnering with C-suite stakeholders and managing executive-level conversations.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or contributing to data pipelines, large-scale reporting systems, or big-data tooling (e.g., Vertex, Bitquery, or similar).
• Background working with major gaming publishers or high-growth app developers.
• Understanding of optimisation techniques such as dynamic pricing/floor optimisation.
• Familiarity with technical deep-dives on the publisher/ad stack side.