Private Equity Partnerships Manager

5–10+ years in enterprise SaaS and/or fintech across partnerships, BD, sales, PE‑backed operating roles, or management consulting serving PE clients.

Direct experience with technology partnerships with PE sponsors or multi‑entity / portfolio structures strongly preferred.

Proven track record working with sales to drive pipeline and revenue (co‑sell, partner‑sourced deals, complex accounts).

Strong program/project management skills: multiple concurrent workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines with high attention to detail.

Able to operate as both strategist and executor across cross‑portfolio deployments.

PE & commercial acumen

The standard OTE (on‑target earnings) range for this position is $250,000 – $300,000 annually, with competitive equity and benefits. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

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Glean is seeking a Private Equity Partnerships Manager to build and scale our ecosystem with leading private equity and investment firms. In this role, you will own relationships with top sponsors and drive adoption of Glean across their portfolios, sitting at the intersection of PE, AI, and enterprise transformation.

You’ll structure and manage portfolio‑wide commercial frameworks, oversee deployment motions across PortCos, and ensure Glean delivers measurable EBITDA and enterprise value impact for PE‑backed businesses. This is a manager‑level, quota‑carrying role within Partnerships, working closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success.

You are fluent in PE economics, comfortable navigating multi‑stakeholder environments across funds and PortCos, and able to manage AI value‑creation plays from term sheet through exit. Success is measured by converting PE partnerships into live deployments, pipeline, and revenue across your sponsors.

You will:

Drive PE partnership strategy & deal management

Structure, negotiate, and execute PE partnership agreements (preferred pricing, portfolio‑wide frameworks, lighthouse PortCo plays).

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.