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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 2 days Pursuit's roles stay open a median of 36 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 91% of Pursuit's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Pursuit
- moderate 3 stale, 1 reposted of 11 open
- Hiring momentum
- 15 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
The Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships at Pursuit will lead the execution of a state-funded initiative that integrates AI-native training with community colleges and workforce organizations across New York. This role involves managing partnerships, ensuring compliance with grants, and translating external commitments into actionable internal plans. The manager will also represent Pursuit in various external engagements and contribute to the organization's partnership strategy.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Pursuit as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of experience across some partnerships, grants or contract management, policy, and program operations
- Direct experience managing government funding — state, federal, or city grants or contracts — including reporting and compliance obligations
- Demonstrated project management ability in environments with multiple external organizations and no direct authority over them
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Comfort operating across teams and managing multiple priorities against hard external deadlines
- A detail-oriented executor who can also think systemically
Nice to have
- Experience with workforce and higher education institutions
- Familiarity with subrecipient monitoring, cost reimbursement contracts, or multi-party subgrant structures
- Experience standing something new up — a program, a partnership, a market — rather than only maintaining it
- Hands-on fluency with AI tools in your own workflow
What you get
- Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
- 401k match
- Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August and a week-long holiday the last week of December
- Monday and Friday work-from-anywhere policy
- Catered lunches once a week and delicious snacks
- Dedicated time to build in AI and hone your AI skills
Worth weighing
- Role involves managing multiple stakeholders without direct authority, which may be challenging for some candidates
- The position requires a strong focus on compliance and reporting, which may limit creative aspects of the role
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Listed by Pursuit on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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