About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

Ramp’s sports channel is a distribution flywheel where collegiate athletic departments, professional sports organizations, and sports-adjacent companies refer businesses to Ramp as the obvious go-to corporate card and expense management provider for their clients and investments at scale.

As a Channel Partner Manager on the Sports channel team, you’ll have the opportunity to build and scale our bespoke practice areas, distributing Ramp through college athletic departments, pro teams, and industry partners. We are looking for candidates with a proven track record of building deep partner relationships, negotiating & closing commercial agreements, and orchestrating go-to-market rollouts to support Ramp’s channel goals of driving scaled distribution. You will be expected to sign and activate prospective partners, enable and onboard their team members, and achieve consistent quota attainment and overachievement by driving top-of-funnel referral volume and supporting the close of referred deals.

What You’ll Do

• Educate college athletic departments and professional sports teams on Ramp's offering for their alumni/donor base, corporate partners and season ticket holders to drive referral and closed won business onto Ramp
• Quarterback and execute lead generation campaigns and create comprehensive GTM plans to ensure commercial success of our existing partner base
• Drive revenue for Ramp by generating client referrals from these sports partners
• Identify and build relationships with multiple stakeholders within teams, leagues & athletic departments
• Work cross-functionally across marketing, growth, direct sales, product, & engineering to drive co-marketing opportunities, onboard new clients, and inform our product roadmap to support the goals of our partners
• Be an expert in Ramp’s product, features, and workflows

What You Need

• Minimum 5 years of work experience with a minimum 3 years of experience in Business Development/Partnerships, Sales, Partnership Management, or Partner Sales
• Strong discovery skills, with a knack for identifying pain points and consultative selling
• History as a top performer, regularly exceeding targets and quotas
• Dedication to tracking and improving performance and efficiency daily
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with excellent listening skills
• Bias for action and a strong desire to work in a fast-paced startup environment
• A strong cross-functional collaborator who can build relationships across the company
• Ability to travel 50% of the time

Nice to Haves

• Background in Sports – preferably played a sport at an elite level (NCAA or Professional)
• Understanding of Media & Entertainment, Branding, and/or Investing – especially the business of sports and what great brand partnerships look like

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you Partially covered for your dependentsOne Medical annual membership
• Partially covered for your dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
• Flexible PTO
• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
• Parental Leave
• Unlimited AI token usage
• Pet insurance
• Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees
• Health and Wellness stipend
• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
• Budget for intra-office travel
• Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

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