# Enterprise Partnerships Director

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,600.00 - $235,100.00
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

The Enterprise Partnerships Director will accelerate WGU's mission by cultivating and managing high-impact partnerships that expand reach, enhance innovation, and generate new pathways for learners and employers.

**Partnership Development**

- Develop and oversee WGU's strategic partnership portfolio

- Initiate outreach to potential partner organizations

- Identify potential areas of co-development

- Evangelize and coordinate across internal stakeholders

- Negotiate effective partnership structures

- Serve as an advisor to broader Strategy & Ventures leadership

- Establish governance, evaluation criteria, and success measures for strategic partnerships

**Partner Success & Portfolio Management**

- Oversee progress and performance across all partnership initiatives

- Ensure both partners and WGU meet milestones and achieve intended outcomes

- Identify opportunities to deepen relationships or sunset partnerships

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**

- Serve as the primary bridge between internal teams and partner organizations

- Lead cross-functional workstreams

- Promote knowledge sharing and partnership management playbooks

**Measurement & Reporting**

- Establish partnership success metrics and dashboards

- Leverage insights to refine partnership strategy and report outcomes

- Lead partnership-related contributions to enterprise strategic planning

**External Engagement & Representation**

- Serve as WGU's executive representative with senior leaders

- Influence external stakeholders and internal executives

- Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership

**Leadership & Team Development**

- Lead and mentor a small, high-performing team

- Model cross-functional leadership and build capacity for partnership management

- Contribute insights from external relationships to broader WGU competitive analysis and strategy development

## Skills

### Required
- strategic partnerships
- corporate development
- product management
- innovation strategy
- workforce trends
- education
- technology
- labor markets
- solution providers
- talent economy
- education and learning
- workforce management
- GenAI
- exceptional relationship-building and communication skills
- strong negotiation, contract structuring, and project management skills
- data-driven
- organized
- comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

### Nice to have
- strategic partnership experience in higher education, edtech, workforce development, corporate learning, or mission-driven sectors

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