AI Partnerships Manager

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** AI Partnerships Manager
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** Hoboken (HQ), NJ, USAOur mission is to unlock human potential. We welcome you for who you are, the background you bring, and we embrace individuals who get excited about learning. Bring your experiences, your perspectives, and your passion; it’s in our differences that we empower the way the world learns.
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** Wiley’s AI Growth team is seeking a Manager, AI Partnerships to support its rapidly growing AI business. The AI Growth team is forging strategic partnerships to accelerate the pace of research, drive sustainable AI revenue, scale distribution, enhance capabilities, and strengthen Wiley’s brand, influence, and competitive position in the AI ecosystem.  The AI Partnerships function within the AI Growth team is critical to this effort, by defining partnership strategic directions and objectives, establishing and implementing effective partnership structures, and coordinating across Wiley’s internal functions and external partners to deliver on agreed outcomes and ensure the success of each partnership.
Reporting to the Director of AI Market Strategy, this role will drive the success of Wiley’s AI partnerships by serving as the day-to-day relationship manager with key partners, ensuring priorities and needs flow seamlessly between Wiley and its partners. It will operationalize governance structures and engagement cadences, including joint workshops, to deepen alignment and surface new growth opportunities. The role will also collaborate closely with Sales and Marketing to support lead generation and go-to-market activities while project managing partnership set-ups and implementations across Wiley’s matrixed functions to create scalable playbooks for execution.

In addition, it will oversee the day-to-day operations of partnerships, resolving issues quickly and tracking performance against business objectives and recommending improvements to strengthen the partnerships over time.
** Job Description Responsibilities:
*** Serve as the day-to-day relationship manager with partners, maintaining regular engagement, ensuring that partnership priorities and needs flow effectively between Wiley and partners
* Establish and run governance and regular meeting cadences with partners and internal stakeholders, including periodic joint workshops to surface new opportunities. Manage the day-to-day operations of the partnerships and proactively escalate and resolve issues.
* Project manage the set-up and implementation of new partnerships across Wiley’s matrixed functions, and build a scalable playbook for repeatable execution.
* Work closely with partners, Sales, and Marketing to identify, prioritize and drive joint lead generation opportunities and go-to-market initiatives.
* Tracking performance against business objectives and KPIs and recommending improvements to expand and strengthen the partnerships over time.
* Significant experience in partnership management, project management and stakeholder management
* Understanding of AI technologies, market development and key players in the AI landscape desirable
* Strategic analysis, market analysis and some financial modeling/forecasting skills
* Strong communication, storytelling and structured problem solving skills
* Proficiency in Power BI, Excel, Big Query, think-cell, Power Automate
* Team coordination, strong collaboration skills and experience working in a matrixed team
* Operational problem-solving and decision-making
* Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field
* 3–5 years of experience in corporate strategy, finance, or consulting
* With further experience in a commercial role
* Research publishing or adjacent industries experience is a plus
* MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred
** About Wiley:
** Wiley is a trusted leader in research and learning, our pioneering solutions and services are paving the way for knowledge seekers as they…