Senior Marketing Manager - Strategic Partnerships

Wealthfront is seeking an experienced Senior Marketing Manager to elevate our paid partnerships strategy and accelerate customer acquisition. In this high-impact role, you will take full ownership of defining strategic focus areas, building actionable roadmaps, developing business cases, negotiating agreements and scaling high-performing partner channels. You will also expand Wealthfront's acquisition strategy into new sources of distribution.

We are looking for a proactive leader who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—someone who combines strategic vision with operational resourcefulness to drive net-new client growth while streamlining internal workflows.

This role reports directly to a Director of Paid Marketing. You’ll work closely with other members of the paid marketing team, and partners across the company in Product Marketing, Creative, Comms, DS and Engineering, among others.

• Define Partnership Roadmap: Develop and execute a data-driven strategy aligned with overall growth targets and business objectives across affiliates, creators, and other emerging partnership models

• Identify & Evaluate Opportunities: Source and vet prospective partners, creators, affiliate platforms, and media publishers based on audience alignment, brand fit, and strategic business priorities

• Develop Business Case: Size new opportunities, evaluate partnership economics and acquisition potential, and develop clear recommendations on opportunities

• Relationship Management: lead contract negotiations & establish payout models. Build seamless onboarding workflows, briefing documents, creative guidelines, and compliance standards for all paid partners & cultivate long-term relationships with top-performing partners

• Cross-Functional collaboration with internal Creative, Legal, Product Marketing, Comms and Paid Marketing teams to ensure brand alignment, legal compliance (e.g., disclosure rules), and message consistency

• Data-Driven Optimization: Establish measurement frameworks to evaluate performance, regularly analyze campaign metrics to double down on winning channels and sunset underperforming deals, and socialize learnings internally. Drive flawless end-to-end execution

• Help build the marketing org’s skillset, contributing to a culture of excellence, curiosity, and respect

• Bachelor's degree or higher

• 6+ years of experience across strategic partnerships, business development, growth marketing or customer acquisition in a B2C environment (consumer tech experience with a high growth company is a plus) with demonstrated success of scaling programs

• 4+ years experience managing partnerships or affiliates, ideally with 2+ years hand-on experience, and a strong expertise in full-funnel marketing measurement

• Experience structuring partnership economics, developing business cases and negotiating commercial agreements

• Proven examples of impactful projects translating data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations

• Personal finance knowledge/experience is a big bonus, but not required

• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory considerations within the financial services industry is a plus, but not required

Estimated annual salary range: $148,000 - $162,710 USD plus Equity.

Plus comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, an employee investing discount, and more!