Slack Ecosystem Senior Manager

Job Description Slack is the AI-powered platform for work, bringing every app, agent, and automation into a single interface where teams and digital teammates collaborate. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Business Development Manager to recruit, onboard, and manage strategic partners across Slack’s platform ecosystem. You’ll work at the intersection of product, partnerships, and commercial strategy—helping partners build on Slack while driving adoption against established partnership frameworks. This is a high-visibility, individual contributor role on a centralized team that develops partnership initiatives aligned to Slack’s top platform and product priorities. The right person has strong commercial instincts, genuine curiosity about how platforms create value, and a bias toward building new things over managing the status quo. Platform Ecosystem Growth Drive adoption of Slack’s platform among companies offering software products and services to businesses, with a focus on the AI agent, MCP, and automation ecosystems. Recruit and onboard strategic partners that extend Slack through integrations, connectors, workflows, and data connectivity—managing internal alignment and partner readiness throughout. Identify whitespace where platform gaps exist and develop partner-driven solutions to address them, including partnerships that enhance intelligent agent workflows and in-context AI capabilities. Develop mutually beneficial, trusting relationships with partners. Make Slack a favored company with which to partner. AI & Agent Ecosystem Partnerships Recruit and manage partners across the AI and data stack—including LLM providers, agent platforms, analytics tools, and infrastructure enablers—into Slack’s ecosystem programs. Champion creative business models (capacity-based pricing, embedded experiences, ecosystem monetization) that unlock value for customers while ensuring mutual success for partners. Support the development of monetization and ...