Partner Manager Jobs in California

Overview

We're seeking a Group Manager to lead a team of Capability Partners who serve as strategic business partners to enterprise and ecosystem leaders. This is a business leadership role, not an instructional design or L&D delivery role. Your Capability Partners already own translating business demand into learning investments and measuring impact — your job is to run that team like a business function: setting standards, governance, and accountability, while being a credible peer to senior business and cross-functional leaders yourself. Business acumen matters more here than learning expertise.

Responsibilities

Business Leadership & Partnership

• Operate as a senior business partner to leaders across enterprise and ecosystem segments, understanding their priorities and pressures well enough to shape decisions, not just support them
• Build trust-based relationships across business, product, ops, field, and learning supply chain leaders — be the person they bring capability problems to
• Hold your team to a standard where every initiative traces back to a named business priority; push back when it doesn't
• Own prioritization trade-offs directly; when demand exceeds capacity, make the call on what doesn't get done and defend it to business leaders rather than escalating every conflict upward

Team Leadership, Governance & Standards

• Lead, manage, and develop your Capability Partners — set clear expectations for how they operate and how they're held accountable
• Establish governance for demand intake, prioritization, and roadmap decisions so segments are handled consistently, not ad hoc per partner
• Set the bar for executive communication: every brief, MBR, and update meets a decision-ready, no-filler standard before it reaches a business leader
• Instill a performance-consulting mindset on the team — diagnose root cause before defaulting to a learning solution
• Hold the line on sequencing and scope decisions once made; don't let individual stakeholder pressure override team governance

Supply Chain & Quality Oversight

• Own the relationship with learning supply chain (content production, LMS/LXP platform, delivery) so your team stays focused on business partnership, not content creation
• Serve as the escalation point for quality or delivery issues your Capability Partners can't resolve directly

Business Outcomes & Measurement

• Own the team's measurement framework — credible enough to defend in front of senior leadership
• Represent your team's collective impact to senior stakeholders and your own leadership chain

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years in a business partner, strategy, or operations leadership role
• 5+ years leading teams of 10+, ideally in business-partner or account-management structures
• Demonstrated business acumen: understands what drives cost, revenue, and productivity in a service/support business and translates that into team priorities
• Track record building trust and credibility with Director+ stakeholders across functions
• Strong operator — can set governance, standards, and expectations for a distributed team and enforce them
• Comfortable owning unpopular trade-off decisions and defending them under pressure, not just surfacing options for someone else to decide
• Excellent communicator, able to write or coach others to write executive-ready briefs

Preferred

• Experience managing a team inside a shared-services or enablement function that serves business-unit stakeholders
• Exposure to LMS/LXP ecosystems, helpful not required
• MBA or equivalent business background

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The expected base pay range for this position is:
San Diego $183,000 - $247,500