If you thrive on building something from the ground up and love creating meaningful, high-impact partnerships, this role is for you. At Workera, we’re redefining how the world measures and grows skills through AI-powered insights. As our Director of Partnerships, you’ll oversee the development and execution of our partnership channel system, managing relationships with integrated partners, resellers, and other strategic collaborators. You’ll report directly to the Chief Sales Officer, serving as a key architect in shaping our global partner strategy.
You’ll lead the creation of strategic, integrated partnerships with large, enterprise clients—helping organizations around the world unlock their talent potential through Workera’s Skills Intelligence Platform. This role is ideal for someone who’s both strategic and hands-on—a builder who’s comfortable experimenting, iterating, and influencing without layers of hierarchy.
You’re someone who thrives in ambiguity and finds energy in creating clarity. You love the challenge of shaping new markets and designing partnerships that don’t yet exist. You’re motivated by impact over status, and you bring a scrappy, entrepreneurial spirit to everything you do.
You’ll succeed here if you:
Excel at building trust and driving momentum in 1:1 partnerships
Have an opinionated view of how modern partner ecosystems should work—especially around deal recognition, enablement, and partner portals
Are excited by AI and believe in its potential to transform work
Value collaboration and accountability in a global, async-first environment
In your first 2 months, you’ll:
By 4 months, you’ll:
By 6 months and beyond, you’ll:
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Please note as we are a dynamic and quickly growing scale up, things are always subject to change
About Workera
Workera is a fast-growing, Series B Silicon Valley start-up redefining how enterprises understand, develop, and mobilize talent. Workera’s skills intelligence platform empowers leaders to make better, more informed talent development decisions. Utilizing computational psychometrics, machine learning, and AI technologies, Workera delivers best-in-class computer adaptive assessments with hyper-personalized learning plans to global companies across all industries. Our clients include Samsung, Siemens Energy, and the US Air Force.
Our founder is Kian Katanforoosh, an award-winning Stanford Computer Science Lecturer who has taught AI to over 1 million people, and our Chairman is Dr. Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera (NYSE: COUR), CEO of DeepLearning.AI, and founding lead of the Google Brain project.
We’re learners, dreamers, and game-changers. Join us.
At Workera, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Workera believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the best and most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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