Strategic Partnerships Manager

About Fora

Fora is the modern travel agency, empowering anyone with a passion for travel to build a thriving advisory business. Our comprehensive, business-in-a-box platform combines cutting-edge technology, personalized training, a vibrant community, and exclusive industry partnerships, giving travel entrepreneurs everything they need to launch and scale successfully. At the heart of Fora is our mission: to power the next generation of travel entrepreneurs to transform their love for travel into a fulfilling full-time or part-time career, offering unparalleled flexibility, autonomy, and support. We believe that everyone, from seasoned travel professionals to first-time entrepreneurs, can build a career that’s both profitable and aligned with their passions.

Founded in 2021 by seasoned entrepreneurs, Fora has grown steadily since, expanding to a team of 200+ full-time employees based in downtown New York City. In 2025, we announced our $60 million Series B and C investment rounds, led by Thrive Capital and Insight Partners, with participation by previous investors including Forerunner and Heartcore Capital. We've also been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Startup 2024, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2025 and 2023, and Built In 2025 Best Places to Work.

We're building the first truly unified platform for all travel needs—leveraging the best of human expertise and technology to transform how people plan and book travel.

About The Role

Fora is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Manager to support the development and execution of brand collaborations across travel, culture, and lifestyle. This is a newly created role designed to help scale the volume, quality, and operational rigor of Fora’s growing partnerships pipeline.

As partnerships have become a larger and more complex part of the business, this role will focus on translating strategy into seamless execution. The Strategic Partnerships Manager will operationalize collaborations from concept through delivery while ensuring strong coordination between internal teams and external partners.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, this person will serve as the operational backbone of the partnerships function. They will manage timelines, maintain organization across multiple initiatives, and help deliver partnerships that drive meaningful brand visibility and advisor engagement.

This role offers the opportunity to help shape how partnerships are executed and scaled at Fora while contributing to collaborations that connect travel with culture, lifestyle, and consumer brands.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the execution of brand partnerships and collaborations once strategy and concept are defined, ensuring projects move efficiently from handoff through final delivery.
• Manage timelines, deliverables, and partner communication across multiple partnerships while maintaining strong organization and attention to detail.
• Coordinate cross functionally with teams across Marketing, PR and Communications, Advisor Experience, Finance, and Legal to ensure alignment and timely delivery of partnership commitments.
• Build partnership proposals, presentations, and pitch materials that clearly communicate collaboration concepts and opportunities.
• Support outreach and coordination with prospective brand partners and assist in preparing materials for partnership discussions.
• Maintain internal systems for tracking partnership timelines, deliverables, and commitments to ensure visibility across projects.
• Coordinate the logistics and operational needs of partnership activations, events, and cultural brand moments.
• Manage seeding, gifting, and partner engagement initiatives tied to collaborations and brand programs.
• Track partnership performance and contribute to reporting that measures brand reach, advisor engagement, bookings, and overall business impact.
• Prepare partnership recaps, performance reports, and post campaign evaluations that help inform future collaborations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in brand partnerships, integrated marketing, brand marketing, or business development.
• Demonstrated experience managing the end to end execution of brand collaborations, partnerships, events, or cultural activations.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously while coordinating across internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Experience building partnership proposals, pitch materials, decks, or presentations.
• Proven ability to work