Hopefully you’re the vivacious and visionary Director of Partnerships and Strategic Expansion we’ve been looking for. 

Let’s talk about your childhood. Were you the kind of kid who strategically traded stuff from their lunchbox for even more delicious stuff from other kids’ lunchboxes? Did you merge and acquire and partner with peers to create The Most Incredible Lunch Possible all while staying likable, popular, and not being a jerk bully?

First of all, well done. Second of all, Lunchables are disgusting. Third of all, your personality and natural talents and intellect are just what we need.

About Us

Verblio is a unique content creation platform based in Denver, CO.  Content is vital to modern marketing—but it’s really hard to do well and at scale. To help companies scale content without sounding like robots (or using AI…), Verblio  nurtures a network of over 3,000 writers—plus a marketplace business model and an easy-to-use platform for collaboration. Creating the content that powers content marketing is what we do. We fuel growth for businesses, digital agencies, publishers and in-house marketers. And we’re exceptionally good at it.

Want to join our quest for friendly world domination? This is the job you were born to do.

About the role:

Verblio’s Director of Partnerships & Strategic Expansion will identify new channels for revenue growth, prioritize them, and capture via partnerships, new product development or acquisition.  You'll be a member of our Revenue Team and will regularly collaborate with Sales, Product Marketing, Product Development and other teams to accelerate our already rapid revenue growth.

As the first Director of Partnerships & Strategic Expansion at Verblio, you’ll architect our partnerships and corporate development approach, then roll up your sleeves to execute on the strategy you’ve built. You should like to work alone, and with friends. You should like meeting people at trade shows, and then thinking strategically about partnering with them or maybe even acquiring them. You should trade Gogurt for Flaming Hot Cheetos every time, because it’s an obvious upgrade.

This full-time, exempt position will be responsible for:

• Identifying and capturing strategic partnerships and other growth opportunities. The content marketing industry, and the mar-tech space in general, are loaded with potential strategic partners who could amplify Verblio’s presence in the marketplace and catapult our capabilities (and revenue) forward. Some might be channel partners, referral partners, or acquisition targets, and we need someone to create the strategy, then make it happen. It’s worth noting that our brand and team are a huge asset—Verblio stands out in a sea of boring sameness and people want to work with us because they like us.  You should stick a metaphorical fulcrum in there and leverage it.
• Optimize and grow our affiliate program. We’ve built a sustainable and profitable base of referral partners just by hanging our shingle, but haven’t properly leveraged these evangelists to get full value from the program. This is fertile territory for someone with experience building a referral network, or with ideas for how to optimize the solid foundation that’s already in place. 
• Do all of this in a bootstrapped startup environment. The three things above are hard. But, because we like challenges, it’s worth reiterating that we’re a bootstrapped startup and there are resource constraints that come along with that. (But also a huge degree of freedom in how you get it done). Verblio team members seek out ways to go above and beyond their responsibilities for the good of the team, the platform, and our community.

What you will need to be successful in this role: 

• 5+ years of partnerships and/or corp dev experience.
• Zeal for content marketing & SEO.
• Great interpersonal and networking skills 
• Love for building new things.
• An objectively great personality and a love for…other objectively great personalities
• Demonstrated ability to identify strategic opportunities, align the right stakeholders, and lead the charge to capture them.
• Experience evaluating and making build/buy/partner decisions.
• Desire and ability to do high-powered strategic work, but also to get your hands in the dirt and get stuff done. (and if you enjoy literally getting your hands in the dirt, you should join our #greenthumbs slack channel)
• Want to be part of an all-star team who prioritizes having fun, enjoying the quirkiness of our users, and over delivering (because it’s the right thing to do).
• Cool or unexpected skills we haven’t mentioned? Let’s hear them. 

What makes Verblio a great place to work?

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Stylish sock options
• Health, dental & vision insurance with a  generous monthly company contribution
• Flexible paid time off and holidays.
• Last Fridays Off
• Truly awesome team of people- we don’t have needless meetings, don’t tolerate egos, and genuinely like each other. You will love it.
• We believe in doing good, and that creating great opportunities for home-based writers is just as important as helping our clients find their next customer. 
• Did we mention we’re growing like mad? It’s way more fun to be on a rocketship than riding in circles on a model train set. (No disrespect to model train enthusiasts.) We made the Inc 5000 list for the second year in a row, won our sixth Mercury 100 award as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Boulder Valley, and just made the Colorado Companies to Watch list.
• We work hard, have fun, learn a lot, and are proud of our transparent, collaborative culture. We have a low turnover rate because people love working here. We’re looking for someone that wants to be a part of that. Have you read the website? That’ll give you a good idea of our energy.
• This position pays $85,000-105,000/year, commensurate with experience, plus an annual bonus. 

Excited about this opportunity? We’re excited to meet you! Please apply with your resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile link, and your favorite 1-2 sentences that show you went deep into this job description and it speaks to you