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 cross functionally with teams such as marketing, legal, finance, communications, or product.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to maintain professional partner relationships.

• High level of organization and attention to detail with the ability to maintain structured workflows, documentation, and trackers.

• Experience working with consumer brands, lifestyle brands, media companies, hospitality companies, or similarly brand driven environments.

• Ability to work in the United States and be based in New York City or willing to relocate.

Strongly Preferred

• 5-7 years of experience supporting brand partnerships, integrated marketing programs, or collaboration driven initiatives.

• Experience working within travel, hospitality, lifestyle, media, or consumer brands.

• Exposure to event production or partnership activations tied to cultural moments or brand experiences.

• Familiarity with partnership reporting frameworks and campaign performance measurement.

• Curiosity about travel, culture, and emerging brand trends that shape consumer experiences.

Compensation

Compensation for this role varies based on experience, with an indicative range of $90–$130K + equity. Final compensation will depend on the level at which the candidate is hired, as we’re considering multiple levels for this role.

• Unlimited vacation

• Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)

• Dental & Vision Insurance

• Wellhub Memberships

• 401k plan with company match

• Commuter Benefits

• Supplemental Life Insurance

• Stock Options

This role is based in our beautiful New York City office (Tribeca/Fidi) with lots of natural light and great views.

Our Values

We’re forging our own path

Fora has always been about driving change within the industry. We’re not interested in maintaining the status quo.

We’re stronger together

Community is our cornerstone and collective power is our strength. We believe we can all go further when we operate together, using our combined leverage to unlock better opportunities and outcomes for our advisors, partners, and travelers.

We believe in technology

We believe technology is an answer to some of the most fundamental challenges the travel industry faces. We believe advancements in AI, bold investments in our platforms, and a world-class data infrastructure will transform the work of our advisors and our partners, while creating better travel experiences for travelers.

We’re here to serve

We operate in service of our community and believe that when they’re empowered to focus on what they do best, we all win. It’s why we relentlessly advocate for our advisors and prioritize their best interest every step of the way.

We mean business

Fora is equal parts fun, meaningful work and serious travel business. We’re unlocking opportunities for thousands of travel entrepreneurs, delivering a stream of high-quality guests at scale for our partners, and providing a superior travel experience for our travelers. It’s a better equation for the future of our industry.

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WORK AUTHORIZATION

Authorization to work in the United States is required for full-time roles based in our New York City office. Fora is unable to sponsor or assist with U.S. work authorization. Roles based outside of the United States are not subject to this requirement.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Fora is committed to an equitable hiring process and an inclusive work environment. BIPOC and traditionally underrepresented candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We will not discriminate and will take action to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any other characteristic protected by law.