Partnerships Lead Jobs

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Metix.ai is bringing its platform into the US market this fall, launching under a new name right as hiring season opens. The company already has real momentum in the Bay Area: relationships, credibility, early traction. What it does not have yet is the person who turns all of that into a durable community, a partnership engine, and a marketing calendar that actually runs.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a builder role for someone who can see & operate through two different lenses.

The first half is relationships.

Metix needs a highly connected Bay Area operator who already understands how influence, trust, introductions, and partnerships get built here, and who can convert local credibility into partnership outcomes across the HR Tech ecosystem. You are not building a network from zero. You already have one. This role is about activating it on Metix’s behalf.

The second half is execution across channels.

Getting into the room is the start, not the finish. You will run the events calendar, the LinkedIn and X presence, the Google paid program, and a new influencer and endorsement motion, and you will connect them so the same relationship shows up as an event, a post, a campaign, and a partnership conversation rather than four unrelated efforts.

Strategy is already covered. Metix has a fractional CMO setting direction and a content creator producing the assets. Your job is to make the plan real in market, week after week, with your own hands on the work.

CHANNELS YOU WILL RUN

Metix runs 4 channels. You should have hands-on experience in at least 3 of them and a credible plan for the fourth.

Events

Host and co-host events, roundtables, dinners, and workshops. Build and run the Bay Area event calendar for the rest of the year, including presence at major ecosystem weeks.

Active. Events already running in San Francisco. This is the priority channel.

Social

Own the LinkedIn and X presence: calendar, distribution, engagement, and turning events and partnerships into visible momentum.

Accounts exist. Content creator produces assets; you own the channel and the calendar.

Paid

Manage the Google paid program alongside organic activity. Read the numbers, brief the changes, hold the budget accountable.

Running today. Needs an owner who can tie spend to pipeline.

Influencer

Identify, approach, and manage influencers and creators to endorse Metix in the HR and recruiting space.

New. Leadership wants this stood up. You will build it from scratch.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

Bay Area community

• Activate and expand Metix’s existing Bay Area relationships.
• Build trusted relationships with founders, investors, operators, and ecosystem leaders across Bay Area incubators and accelerators, including programs like Y Combinator.
• Host or co-host events that put Metix in front of the right rooms, not just attend them.
• Build a structured network of advocates, advisors, partners, and potential customers.

HR Tech partnerships

• Map and prioritize partnership targets across HR Tech and ATS platforms such as Workday, Greenhouse, Salesforce, and Rippling, along with recruiting platforms, talent marketplaces, workforce solutions, and professional communities.
• Develop product-integration, referral, co-marketing, event, content, distribution, and joint-acquisition opportunities.
• Lead outreach, discovery, and proposals, and advance qualified opportunities toward pilots or formal partnerships.

Campaigns and market influence

• Plan and run integrated campaigns across events, social, paid, and influencer activity, tied to the launch calendar.
• Increase Metix’s visibility and credibility across the Bay Area startup, investor, and HR Tech communities.
• Provide continuous market intelligence and practical recommendations to leadership.
• Pursue relationships with major frontier AI labs and platforms, such as OpenAI and Google, as stretch partnership targets.

The operating system underneath it

Metix runs on Slack. There is no project management or marketing operations layer in place today, so you will build one: campaign planning, relationship pipeline, event workflow, follow-up, and reporting. Leadership expects AI to carry a real share of that load, and it should. You are the human judgment on top of it, deciding what good output looks like and what gets shipped.

FIRST 90 DAYS

• An early, visible partnership win within the first 30 days.
• A live event calendar covering the remainder of the year, with the first event booked and the major ecosystem weeks committed.
• Roughly 100 new connections with co-founders and HR leaders across the Bay Area ecosystem.
• A prioritized map of the Bay Area founder, investor, and HR Tech ecosystems.
• LinkedIn and X on a running cadence, with events and partnerships feeding the content calendar.
• A baseline read on Google paid performance and a recommendation on where the spend should go.
• A shortlist of influencer and endorsement targets, with the first conversations opened.
• Initial co-marketing, referral, integration, channel, or pilot opportunities advanced toward activation.
• A repeatable operating system for relationship management, campaign planning, partnership development, follow-up, and reporting.

WHO YOU ARE

• You currently live in San Francisco or the Bay Area and are already active in the local startup ecosystem.
• You either bring current relationships with founders, investors, operators, and HR leaders here, or you have the energy and proven ability to build them fast. Both paths are welcome.
• You have run marketing campaigns yourself, across events plus at least two of social, paid, and influencer. Not managed an agency that ran them. Ran them.
• You have personally built communities or originated strategic partnerships, not merely supported someone else’s program.
• You are available full-time or on a significant fractional basis, with flexibility for meetings and ecosystem events, including occasional evenings.
• You can operate independently, manage a relationship pipeline, and communicate clearly with leadership.
• You have strong US business judgment and fluent English communication skills.

PREFERRED BACKGROUND

Open to a range of seniority: a senior operator with an established Bay Area network, or an energetic, early-career operator with a proven ability to build relationships fast. What matters most is direct experience doing this kind of community, campaign, and partnership work before.

• Former ecosystem, platform, or community lead at a Bay Area venture fund, accelerator, founder community, or technology platform.
• Partnerships, growth, or business-development leader from an HR Tech, recruiting, talent, SaaS, or AI company.
• Field marketing or event marketing lead who also owned social and paid at a startup.
• Well-connected startup operator who has built founder or investor programming and can demonstrate commercial follow-through.
• US market-expansion leader who has helped a global technology company establish local credibility and partnerships.

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

• This is not a content production role. A content creator handles the assets. You own the channel, the calendar, and whether any of it lands.
• This is not a strategy seat. A fractional CMO sets direction. You are the person who makes it happen in market.
• This is not a fit for someone with no track record building relationships or community. Whether you bring an existing Bay Area network or the energy to build one fast, you need to have done this work before.
• This is not a heavily managed role. You bring the playbook with you and operate independently.
• This is not about the volume of introductions. It is about the outcomes those introductions turn into.

HOW TO APPLY

Send your resume, a brief interest statement, and a short note on the following to jessica@thecmo.agency:

• The first 10 to 15 people or organizations you would prioritize in the Bay Area, and why.
• One detailed example of a community you built, including participation, engagement, and measurable results.
• One partnership you originated, from first introduction through activation, and your personal contribution to it.
• One event you ran end to end: how you filled the room, what it cost, and what it produced.

Pay: $4,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Does capacity allow for evening events & meetings to overlap with China availability?
• Name 5–10 Bay Area or HR Tech people, organizations, communities, or platforms you would prioritize for Metix in your first month, and explain why.
• Describe one strategic partnership you personally originated and advanced. Include the opportunity, your actions, and the outcome.

Location:

• San Francisco Bay Area, CA (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in San Francisco Bay Area, CA