Partner Success Manager Jobs for OPT Students
Partner Success Manager jobs are a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with backgrounds in business, communications, or management information systems. Most roles qualify as specialty occupations for H-1B sponsorship. Your OPT work authorization is valid for 12 months, with a 24-month STEM extension available for eligible degree holders.
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Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.
About The Role
Rippling is looking for a Partner Success Manager to support our Broker Partners. As a PSM you will help our partners leverage Rippling to its fullest potential for their clients as well as internally within their own firm. You will partner closely with product and engineering teams to develop our product functionality based on the experience and feedback from our partners. You will own key partner relationships in tandem with Channel AEs, and be responsible for turning partners into long-term champions, creating new processes, all while providing an impeccable customer experience along the way. As a part of the Technical Account Management org your impact should lead to the mutual success of our partners and growth of our partner program overall.
Note – our next start date for this team is May 1st, 2026.
What You Will Do
- Develop long-lasting relationships
- Manage a book of business, and own relationships with your key stakeholders
- Build Rippling advocates!
- Become a virtual member of your partners’ teams
- Showing them how to improve workflows through the use of Rippling’s features including Benefits, Payroll, Reporting/Analytics, etc
- Increase adoption
- Drive partner adoption of new feature roll outs
- Offer white glove service
- Ensure partners feel supported and engaged through attentive, personalized guidance and product enablement
- Triage critical customer & partner issues to resolution
- Act as the Rippling liaison for partner questions, issues, or escalations. Make partners feel supported by your sense of urgency and advocacy, ensuring their issues are resolved as they arise.
- Become a product expert
- You'll be a go-to resource for both partners and coworkers in a short amount of time
- Build cross-functional ties across Rippling
- Think like a partner
- Work directly with our engineering and product teams to constantly build new features and deliver an amazing new customer & partner experience
- Hold partners accountable to success through business reviews in alignment with their assigned Channel AE
What You Will Need
- 3+ years of work experience at a SaaS company, preferably in the HCM category, in a customer or partner-facing role
- Strong benefits background
- Stellar written and verbal communication skills
- Track record of building strong customer or partner relationships
- Flexibility with changing job duties and responsibilities
- Excellent at time management, prioritizing tasks and adapting on a day-to-day basis
- Passion for training both partners and internal teams
- Thrives at building new processes when they don’t exist
- Interest in actively working with product and engineering teams
About The Team
The Partner Success Team works exclusively with our channel partners including brokers, accountants, and resellers. Our team is spread across the US and comprises around fifteen PSMs. We collaborate closely across various functions at Rippling including our implementation team, CX org, and our product and engineering teams. The PSM team has been lucky enough to work with some of our partners for 4+ years forging incredibly impactful working relationships.
Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com.
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
Compensation
- The pay range for this role is: 83,750.00 - 111,563.00 USD per year (US Tier 2 & Tier 3)
- The pay range for this role is: 89,300 - 110,025 USD per year (US Tier 3)
- The pay range for this role is: 95,200 - 115,850 USD per year (US Tier 2)
About Rippling
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.
About The Role
Rippling is looking for a Partner Success Manager to support our Broker Partners. As a PSM you will help our partners leverage Rippling to its fullest potential for their clients as well as internally within their own firm. You will partner closely with product and engineering teams to develop our product functionality based on the experience and feedback from our partners. You will own key partner relationships in tandem with Channel AEs, and be responsible for turning partners into long-term champions, creating new processes, all while providing an impeccable customer experience along the way. As a part of the Technical Account Management org your impact should lead to the mutual success of our partners and growth of our partner program overall.
Note – our next start date for this team is May 1st, 2026.
What You Will Do
- Develop long-lasting relationships
- Manage a book of business, and own relationships with your key stakeholders
- Build Rippling advocates!
- Become a virtual member of your partners’ teams
- Showing them how to improve workflows through the use of Rippling’s features including Benefits, Payroll, Reporting/Analytics, etc
- Increase adoption
- Drive partner adoption of new feature roll outs
- Offer white glove service
- Ensure partners feel supported and engaged through attentive, personalized guidance and product enablement
- Triage critical customer & partner issues to resolution
- Act as the Rippling liaison for partner questions, issues, or escalations. Make partners feel supported by your sense of urgency and advocacy, ensuring their issues are resolved as they arise.
- Become a product expert
- You'll be a go-to resource for both partners and coworkers in a short amount of time
- Build cross-functional ties across Rippling
- Think like a partner
- Work directly with our engineering and product teams to constantly build new features and deliver an amazing new customer & partner experience
- Hold partners accountable to success through business reviews in alignment with their assigned Channel AE
What You Will Need
- 3+ years of work experience at a SaaS company, preferably in the HCM category, in a customer or partner-facing role
- Strong benefits background
- Stellar written and verbal communication skills
- Track record of building strong customer or partner relationships
- Flexibility with changing job duties and responsibilities
- Excellent at time management, prioritizing tasks and adapting on a day-to-day basis
- Passion for training both partners and internal teams
- Thrives at building new processes when they don’t exist
- Interest in actively working with product and engineering teams
About The Team
The Partner Success Team works exclusively with our channel partners including brokers, accountants, and resellers. Our team is spread across the US and comprises around fifteen PSMs. We collaborate closely across various functions at Rippling including our implementation team, CX org, and our product and engineering teams. The PSM team has been lucky enough to work with some of our partners for 4+ years forging incredibly impactful working relationships.
Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com.
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
Compensation
- The pay range for this role is: 83,750.00 - 111,563.00 USD per year (US Tier 2 & Tier 3)
- The pay range for this role is: 89,300 - 110,025 USD per year (US Tier 3)
- The pay range for this role is: 95,200 - 115,850 USD per year (US Tier 2)
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Partner Success Manager
Target companies with dedicated partner ecosystems
SaaS, fintech, and enterprise software companies rely heavily on partner programs and are experienced H-1B sponsors. Search Migrate Mate to filter for Partner Success Manager roles at companies with active sponsorship histories before applying broadly.
Frame your degree as a specialty occupation match
Partner Success Manager roles typically require a degree in business, marketing, or communications. Connect your specific coursework to job requirements in your resume and cover letter so hiring managers can clearly see the specialty occupation alignment.
Raise sponsorship early, not after an offer
Mention your OPT status in the first recruiter screen. It avoids wasted time on both sides and signals professionalism. Most companies with formal partner programs have sponsored visas before and won't be surprised by the conversation.
Quantify partner outcomes on your resume
Hiring managers want evidence you can drive partner revenue or retention. Include metrics like partner satisfaction scores, onboarding completion rates, or revenue influenced. Concrete numbers make your application stand out and justify the sponsorship investment.
Prioritize mid-market and enterprise SaaS employers
Companies with 200 or more employees and established partner channels are more likely to have HR infrastructure for sponsorship. Startups may want to sponsor but often lack the legal resources. Focus your search on companies large enough to support the process.
Build relationships inside partner-led organizations
Referrals carry significant weight for roles that require trust and relationship management. Connect with current Partner Success or Channel Sales employees at target companies. A warm introduction often makes sponsorship conversations easier than a cold application.
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Get Access To All JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does a Partner Success Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B sponsorship?
Partner Success Manager positions typically qualify as specialty occupations when the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as business, marketing, or communications. The key is that the degree requirement must be tied to the specific duties of the role, not just preferred. Roles at SaaS and enterprise software companies generally meet this standard because the work involves complex product knowledge and strategic account management.
How can I find Partner Success Manager jobs that sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find Partner Success Manager roles where employers are open to sponsoring F-1 OPT students. The platform filters for sponsorship-friendly employers so you're not wasting applications on companies that won't support your visa status. Focus on roles in SaaS, technology, and enterprise software, where partner ecosystems are common and H-1B sponsorship experience is more established.
Can I work as a Partner Success Manager on STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as management information systems, computer science, or certain business analytics programs, you may qualify for a 24-month STEM OPT extension. Partner Success Manager roles at technology companies often satisfy the practical training requirement because the work is directly related to STEM fields. Confirm your degree's CIP code with your DSO before applying for the extension.
What should I say when an employer asks about my work authorization as an OPT student?
Be straightforward: tell them you're authorized to work on F-1 OPT and that you'll need H-1B sponsorship before your OPT expires. Most Partner Success Manager hiring managers at established tech companies are familiar with this process. Bring it up during the first recruiter call rather than waiting for an offer, which gives both sides time to assess fit without timeline pressure.
Which industries hire Partner Success Managers and are most likely to sponsor visas?
SaaS, cloud infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise software companies are the strongest sectors for both Partner Success Manager hiring and visa sponsorship. These businesses depend on channel partners and resellers to scale revenue, so they build dedicated partner success teams and invest in keeping those employees long-term. Professional services firms and marketplace platforms are also worth targeting, as they frequently maintain formal partner programs.
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