About Us
We're TravelPerk, a hyper-growth SaaS platform offering companies a one-stop-shop for booking, managing and reporting business travel.
Our aim is to revolutionise the $1.3 trillion business travel market by combining an unrivalled choice of travel options with a powerful booking and management platform and access to 24/7 customer support we’ve become the leading all-in-one travel management solution.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Barcelona, we’ve grown to over 1200 people in 9 offices across Europe and North America. In 2022 we became a ‘unicorn’ and in 2024 we raised $104 million in additional investment, with a total valuation of $1.4 billion.
We’ve been winning awards too. Since 2023, we’ve been voted one of the best places to work, one of the fastest-growing apps and tech companies, and a leading pioneer of business travel.
These are just some of the reasons why global brands like Wise, Red Bull, GetYourGuide, and Aesop trust us to supercharge their corporate travel.
The Role
We're seeking an ambitious and driven Director of Partnership Development to join our team. Reporting to the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, your primary responsibility will be to engage with our essential regional strategic partners, focusing on maximizing the potential of our collaborative business ventures.
Your role involves nurturing and expanding these partnerships within our ecosystem, serving as the primary liaison for all partnership-related activities. You will manage key stakeholder relationships throughout various initiatives, including partner programs, marketing campaigns, integration development, and the implementation of innovative strategies. As a pivotal figure in these partnerships, your goal will be to drive growth and achieve our key business objectives.
What will you be doing?
- Partnership Development and Execution: Identification, evaluation, and development of strategic partnerships with relevant organizations. End to end partner development and management across deal origination, negotiation, closure and measurement.
- Driving Pipeline: Ensure partners and channels are set up to both drive new quality leads, accelerate opportunities and ultimately lead to sustainable revenue growth in partnership with the sales and client success teams.
- Build a partner roadmap and refine partner strategy: Ensure alignment of business development, product integration, and channel strategies with product management, marketing, sales, and engineering teams. Define a roadmap and iterate on it as you learn. Strive towards execution over strategy.
- Partner with Commercial leadership on performance and measurement : Setup framework and cadence to monitor the performance of integration partnerships and channel partners, often working directly with commercial and product leaders.
- Foster relationships with stakeholders across multiple teams and departments to drive metrics and finalize co-sold agreements.
- Work with cross-functional teams to align partnerships with the company's strategic goals.
- Create and refine internal processes and workflows to optimize team operations and enhance partnership value.
- Oversee partnership go-to-market aspects, ensuring timely achievement.
- Strategies for revenue growth through partnerships, setting and tracking goals and KPIs for long-term partnership success.
- Keep abreast of industry trends and the competitive landscape to identify new partnership opportunities.
What will you need to succeed?
- Solid experience in business development, sales, or a related field.
- Have a background in building and evolving high-performing partnerships across varying company sizes.
- Excellent skills in building stakeholder relationships and negotiation.
- Strong in data-driven decision-making and problem-solving.
- Capable of simultaneously managing multiple projects efficiently.
- Good understanding of business fundamentals, marketing, and finance.
- Comfortable in dynamic environments and able to operate independently.
- Adept at creating strategic plans and managing high-level stakeholders.
- Proficiency in API integrations and understanding of the current ecosystem.
- Demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning, testing, and scaling.
What do we offer?
- 💰 Competitive compensation, including equity in TravelPerk
- 🌴 Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge
- 💊 Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability with coverage from your start date
- 💼 Financial benefits like 401k or Roth with company matching, and HSA or FSA plan
- 💪 Subscription to Wellhub, the gym benefit
- 👶 Family services that include adoption benefits and paid parental leave from 12 to 16 weeks
- 🏢 Global presence and hybrid working style
- 🥳 Unforgettable TravelPerk events, including travel to one of our hubs
- 📚 Learning and professional development opportunities
- 💙 iFeel - a mental health support tool with access to therapists year round
- 📈 Exponential growth opportunities
- 🫶 16 paid hours per year to volunteer for a cause of your choice
- 🌎 "Work from anywhere" allowance of 20 working days per year
How we work
Our Vision is for a world where TravelPerk is the platform for human connection in real life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be within commuting distance of our Boston, Miami or Chicago hub. We fundamentally believe in meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, and creativity, ultimately making us a great workplace.
At TravelPerk, we prioritise experience and potential over academic qualifications for this role. We believe that talent and ability aren't always reflected in formal credentials.
TravelPerk is a global company with a diverse customer base—and we want to ensure that the people behind our product reflect that. We're an equal opportunity employer, meaning you're welcome at TravelPerk regardless of your appearance, where you're from, or anything else that makes you.
You can check about our values here and see our IRL approach in this video.
Read more about our latest updates here.
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What We Do
We are TravelPerk: a scaling unicorn valued at $1.4 billion that has raised over $400m since our creation in 2015.
Backed by world-class investors with portfolios including Airbnb, Stripe, Slack, Trello, Gusto, Twitter, Farfetch and Deliveroo, our team comprises of A-players from the travel and technology industries.
We’ve been named the fastest-growing SaaS startup in the world by SaaS1000 and featured as one of the hottest startups to watch by both Forbes and Wired. We’re revolutionizing the B2B corporate travel market—worth over $1.3 trillion— to connect people in real life in an enjoyable and sustainable way.
TravelPerk is innovative. In recent years, we have welcomed and acquired the likes of Click Travel, NexTravel and Albatross to the team. From TravelCare, to FlexiPerk and GreenPerk, we are shaping the industry's future and embodying our company values while we do it--create a 7 star experience, impact over effort, be a good person, we are a team, we are all owners.
Why Work With Us
We are a values-driven company—we walk the talk and build teams based on how someone aligns with our values. We believe in creating impact over effort, acting as owners, and in building meaningful and inspiring careers. TravelPerk is more than a travel company, it's a place where people believe in in-real-life interaction and enjoy being together.
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TravelPerk Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our company's purpose is to connect people in real life and we believe in practicing what we preach! We are an In Real Life first company and have a hybrid work structure with the expectation that team members are in office at least 3 days a week.
