Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Partner and GSE Account Manager role sits at a common SaaS inflection point: a product business operating with startup-like autonomy inside a larger platform following an acquisition. In the SaaS ecosystem, that structure often creates meaningful surface area across product, go-to-market, and stakeholder management, especially when the company’s distribution depends on high-leverage external partners rather than only direct sales.
For a SaaS career, the core value is learning how partnerships function as a growth engine and a product feedback loop at the same time. Managing relationships with institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, alongside channel partners, builds experience in aligning roadmaps, launch processes, and commercial outcomes across multiple internal teams. The role also rewards comfort with software concepts such as APIs, which tends to translate well to other SaaS environments where integrations and platform strategy matter.
This position is best suited to professionals who prefer cross-functional work and can move between executive relationship management and operational detail. It will appeal to someone who enjoys navigating regulated or standards-driven ecosystems, and who wants responsibility for shaping how a partner program is run, not only maintaining existing accounts.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role
Truework, recently acquired by Checkr, provides access to crucial employment, income information and asset information needed for mortgage loans, apartment rentals, background checks, and more. We are disrupting a $5B+ industry, dominated by legacy incumbents and outdated processes, with a better product and intense customer focus. Within Checkr, Truework operates independently, allowing rapid iteration while also being able to leverage the strengths and assets from our core business. Think of it like joining a startup within a startup!
As a Strategic Partnerships Manager on the Truework team, you’ll own our most critical partnerships with Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as a number of our referral and channel partners, like Blend. You’ll be in an uniquely hybrid position that requires both strategic business and as well as product/technical knowledge to design, iterate, and grow our solutions through these partnerships. This role partners across multiple organizations including Sales, Customer Success, Solutions, Product, and Engineering.
What You’ll Do
- Manage and grow executive-level relationships with Truework’s strategic partners
- Lead strategy, go to market process, and product discovery, iteration, and releases for our strategic partners such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Blend - aligning closely with our Product organization.
- Acquire new opportunities and revenue streams via our Partners to contribute towards our continued growth
- Build and design up the partner program on how to effectively manage and drive our internal processes for the future
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of prior experience in tech or fintech
- Entrepreneurial mindset and independent self-starter
- Effective communicator both internally and externally, with an expert attention to detail and opportunities to drive success
- Resourcefulness, creativity and grit to push through obstacles and achieve results
- Experience with data analysis and software concepts (eg APIs) is a plus
- Experience with government entities or mortgage is a plus
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.
What you’ll get
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
