Strategic Partnerships Development Manager

Strategic Partnerships Development Manager – MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite) Temp Contract: 9 months (15/12/2025 – 12/09/2026) Rate: £51.92 per hour (Inside IR35) Hours: 40 per week My client is a global tech powerhouse, they are looking for a Strategic Partnerships Development Manager to join a high-performing EMEA team responsible for managing and growing relationships with some of the largest mobile app developers across gaming and non-gaming sectors. This is a fast-paced, commercially focused role where you’ll drive partner success, influence senior stakeholders, and help shape growth strategy across a significant portfolio. This position sits within a team of nine and supports a diverse group of priority partners—working across the full partnerships organisation depending on business needs. You’ll play a key role during a maternity leave period, operating as an individual contributor while collaborating closely with leadership, technical specialists, and commercial teams. What You’ll Do Lead the end-to-end partner experience, from pitching and contract negotiation through to onboarding, integration, and ongoing success. Develop and execute partner strategies, including opportunity identification, industry research, and contribution to product and market insights. Build and maintain strategic, C-level relationships across major app developers to drive adoption of monetisation and advertising solutions. Manage partner engagement through performance tracking, forecasting, reporting, and insight generation. Advocate for partners internally while ensuring world-class service, issue resolution, and long-term alignment. Contribute to the development of new analytics and reporting infrastructure to inform business development and partner prioritisation. Help influence wider cross-functional teams and contribute to best-practice case studies, competitive insights, and partner enablement. What They Are Looking For (Non-Negotiable) Deep experience in the mobile app ecosystem — ideally 8–10 years within app development, app monetisation, mobile partnerships, or app-focused commercial roles. Strong understanding of mobile ad monetisation platforms, with hands-on familiarity such as AdMob, AppLovin, Mintegral, Meta, or similar. Demonstrated analytical capability — not a data scientist, but someone who has acted as an analyst or used BI tools to interpret complex datasets. Proven success in partner management, commercial growth, or revenue-driving roles (KPIs comparable to sales / growth metrics). Experience partnering with C-suite stakeholders and managing executive-level conversations. Nice to Have Experience building or contributing to data pipelines, large-scale reporting systems, or big-data tooling (e.g., Vertex, Bitquery, or similar). Background working with major gaming publishers or high-growth app developers. Understanding of optimisation techniques such as dynamic pricing/floor optimisation. Familiarity with technical deep-dives on the publisher/ad stack side.