Partnership Manager, News and Media
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Job Description
News and media partnerships manager building publisher relationships and audience growth for Bluesky's social media app and AT Protocol. Leading campaigns, partner strategy, and cross-functional initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders across the news industry, including beat reporters, newsroom audience teams, and publisher leadership
- Guide news and media partners through Bluesky and AT Protocol to help them grow their audience
- Establish programmatic activations with partners and own planning and execution across IRL and digital campaigns
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, marketing, and communications to translate partner insights into actionable recommendations
- Advocate internally for the needs of news partners
- Define success metrics for news partnerships, track inputs and outputs, and report on performance
- Use data to develop an engagement strategy and identify opportunities to strengthen service to news publishers
- Work closely with the Partnerships Lead, product, and trust & safety teams
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in content partnerships, audience development, or business development within a news/media capacity
- Deep knowledge of the news ecosystem, with existing relationships and the ability to build new ones quickly
- Experience working in high-velocity startup environments where you ship fast and iterate often
- Fluency in social and internet culture
- Track record of leading campaigns that moved the needle on awareness, sentiment, and/or growth
- Ability to operate autonomously, move fast, and deliver results in ambiguous or rapidly evolving spaces
- Familiarity with Bluesky, AT Protocol, or the decentralized social landscape
- Experience with the commercial side of the content industry
- Direct experience working in news media, at a newsroom, or a publication
- Portfolio of partnerships campaigns
- Must be based in the United States

















