Partner Marketing Manager

Partner Marketing Manager

Who We Are
Podium Education partners with colleges and companies to supercharge the undergraduate degree with skills, experience, and a bridge to a great career. In 2023, Podium was the largest accredited producer of technical talent in the United States. Podium serves a population of over 1,000,000 students across more than 70 of the largest and most well-known universities in the country, including Georgetown, UNC, Harvard, ASU, and Texas A&M. In 2023, Podium acquired Untapped, the leading all in one early career software and talent marketplace, to further our mission of making sure every college student has a path to a great career.


Podium Education programs are offered as online courses within standard university semesters. Through Podium, students gain real-world experience while tackling projects from the world's most recognized brands, such as Spotify, Netflix, Shopify, Uber, Google, and Airbnb. Our flagship program is the Global Career Accelerator (here's an example: which runs at 70+ universities around the country.

• Student Experience - Customer NPS is better than Netflix, Apple, and Amazon.
• Student Access - Programs are for credit, count towards graduation, and are financial aid eligible.
• Student Outcomes - Their undergraduate students go on to work at places like JP Morgan, Airbnb, Stripe and Deloitte directly through our careers marketplace.

Podium Education is a privately held Series B company based in Austin, TX with prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, Owl Ventures, Lumos Capital Group, Learn Capital, Lachy Groom, Goldcrest Capital, and Album VC.

The Role
We're looking for a Partner Marketing Manager who can bring structure, creativity, and flawless execution to the way we show up with high education partners, students, employers, and the broader market. This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of partner engagement, content, industry thought leadership, events, and brand storytelling. You'll own the planning and execution of partner-facing marketing-from web presence and social campaigns to conferences, sponsorship activations, webinars, and internal events-ensuring every touchpoint feels thoughtful, polished, and aligned with our mission.

You need to be someone who is highly organized, calm under pressure, creative in execution, and comfortable managing many moving pieces at once. You'll work closely with both internal leadership, our Advisory Board, and external partners (e.g., major higher education associations, institutions, employers) to bring our work closing the college-to-career gap to life.

What You'll Do

• Lead Partner Marketing strategy - Engage with leadership and cross-functional teams to develop event strategy, programming, and content that supports business and partner goals
• Drive web content, narrative, and asset development - Lead website content development and partner-facing asset creation, including sales collateral (e.g., pitch materials, offering documents, case studies, partner spotlights), event materials, and draft press releases, using tools like Canva, Figma, and Google Suite
• Manage social media platforms - Build Podium's LinkedIn and broader social presence by creating and publishing targeted content that engages partners, students, employers, and key stakeholders, including but not limited to new partner announcements, event insights, longer form thought leadership posts
• Build and execute events strategy - Lead website content development and partner-facing asset creation, including sales collateral (e.g., pitch materials, offering documents, case studies, partner spotlights), event materials, and draft press releases, using tools like Canva, Figma, and Google Suite
• Support Advisory Board and partner engagement - Coordinate Advisory Board communications, in-person and virtual meetings, and stewardship throughout the year; lead occasional partner engagement efforts and physical collateral production (e.g., holiday gifts)
• Spearhead conference attendance and sponsorship strategy and execution - Engage with existing strategic partners (e.g., membership organizations, thought leaders, contractors) and seek out/evaluate prospective new sponsorship and conference participation opportunities aligned with Podium's mission and partnership goals; own execution of sponsorship and conference elements including writing session proposals, orchestrating panels, lounges/branded spaces, and receptions, coordinating internal participation, run-of-show, speaker logistics, and special programming.
• Maintain Partner Marketing function budget - Manage Partner Marketing function and event budgets with detailed tracking, ensuring resources are used thoughtfully while maintaining a high standard of production
• Organize Partner Marketing assets and institutional knowledge - Build and maintain shared file systems, planning tools, event templates, project trackers, and reports using tools such as Google Drive, Asana, and Google Sheets; serve as "source of truth" for brand message and materials

What We're Looking For

• 3-5 years of experience in partner, event or social media marketing, communications, public relations, or a closely related role
• Excellent communication and writing skills, including strong judgement and ability to develop and tell a consistent brand story across multiple formats and audiences
• Strong project management skills; you can manage multiple projects, timelines, vendors, budgets, stakeholders, and last-minute changes without losing the thread
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute high-quality events from concept through post-event reporting
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and comfort working with leadership, internal teams, partners, vendors, and other external stakeholders
• Comfort creating high quality marketing, sales, and external-facing materials
• A proactive, ownership-minded approach; you do not wait for every detail to be handed to you before moving work forward and are comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities
• Comfort balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution while managing numerous streams
• Ability to travel occasionally (~3-5 times a year for events, Advisory Board meeting, internal company and team summits)

Nice to Have

• Experience in edtech, higher education, workforce development, or early talent contexts
• Experience supporting partner, employer, university, or student-facing events
• Familiarity with tools such as WebFlow, Duda, Asana, Google Suite, Zoom, Canva, Adobe Express, and Figma
• Experience growing or managing a company/organization's LinkedIn presence
• Experience building or redesigning and updating company or organization website and branding
• Experience with conference sponsorships, speaker programming, branded activations, or field marketing campaigns

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits with performance-based bonus
• Remote, flexible work environment (and a fabulous office if you're in Austin, TX)
• A mission-driven team that genuinely believes in what we're building
• Real ownership and visibility-this is not a large team where work disappears into a backlog
• The opportunity to shape how we engage higher education partners, employers, students, and the broader education-to-career ecosystem

Benefits

• 401k, Health, Vision and Dental insurance packages
• Short term disability insurance
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Discounted Wellhub Membership
• Access to 3 Mental Health Applications
• One Medical Membership
• 8 Company-Paid for Therapy Sessions
• Free access to upskill through our Global Experiential Programs
• Excellent Birthing and Bonding Leave policies
• Sleep coach for post-partum and infant coaching
• Student and Partner focused half days every First Friday of the month
• Extremely talented and intelligent co-workers
• A massive impact on universities and the lives of others, every single day