Partner Development Director

The Role

Everlaw is seeking a Partner Development Director to identify, recruit, negotiate, and launch new strategic partners that can materially expand Everlaw's channel business. This role focuses on net-new partner creation and the early phase of partner success: finding the right partners, structuring the right deals, aligning cross-functional teams, and helping those partnerships produce their first meaningful wave of business.

The core of the work is hunting for the right partners, evaluating where they can unlock growth for Everlaw, negotiating complex agreements, and helping new partners become productive quickly. The right person is both a builder and a closer: they know how to identify high-potential opportunities, build a business case, negotiate first-of-kind deals, and turn an early partnership into a real commercial motion.

This is a full-time, exempt position based in our New York City, NY office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.

What you'll do

• Identify, evaluate, and recruit high-potential strategic partners-including service providers, resellers, global advisories, and legal solutions partners-to unlock growth across new segments and geographies.
• Structure, negotiate, and close complex, first-of-kind commercial partnership agreements and non-standard deal models.
• Build comprehensive business cases and joint commercial plans, establishing clear cross-functional paths to make new partnerships productive quickly.
• Lead early post-signature activation and internal orchestration, providing hands-on sales support to drive the first meaningful wave of joint business.
• Educate new partners on Everlaw's broader AI strategy, helping them embed these capabilities into their own customer-facing services and commercial motions.
• Represent Everlaw externally with senior partner stakeholders, anchoring complex commercial discussions with executive presence and credibility.

About You

• You have at least 10 years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, channel development, or alliance-building within a SaaS or technology company.
• You have a proven track record of hunting, evaluating, and signing net-new partners from scratch rather than solely managing existing accounts.
• You have direct experience structuring and negotiating complex partnership agreements, commercial terms, and custom partner models.
• You understand services-focused partner ecosystems and possess the strategic judgment to evaluate whether an alliance can successfully build, sell, and deliver a joint motion.
• You combine strategic vision with commercial urgency, successfully navigating ambiguity to move opportunities from initial contact to signed deal and early revenue.
• You are highly effective in cross-functional environments, knowing how to mobilize internal support across product, legal, finance, and sales for non-obvious opportunities.
• You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring U.S. employment visas for this role.

Bonus points

• Experience within legal tech, cybersecurity, compliance, or another services-led enterprise software category.
• Proven experience leveraging partners to successfully enter a new region, market segment, or category.
• Experience designing new partner models that combine enterprise software, professional services, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Established experience working alongside global advisories, ALSPs, MSPs, major consultancies, or strategic resellers.

Additional information

Think you're missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the 'perfect' candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team. We often revisit candidates who may have applied for a different role if something comes up that's a better fit.

The Team - Business Development

The Business Development team builds and grows the network of partners who extend Everlaw's reach into the market. By identifying, recruiting, and supporting partners across the ecosystem, the team creates relationships that open new paths to customers and reinforce Everlaw's position in the industry. This work turns strong partnerships into a durable channel for growth, helping more organizations discover Everlaw through partners they already trust.

Total Rewards & Benefits

The annual base salary for this position is between $200,900 - $254,800, with a total On-Target Earnings (OTE) of between $287,000 - $363,900, representing a 70/30 compensation split. Eligibility for the commission portion is performance-based and subject to the achievement of specific performance metrics, which are governed by Everlaw's policies and incentive plans. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate's experience and skills. The role's compensation is subject to change in the future. This role is also eligible for equity and the benefits below.

Health & well-being

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Membership to Modern Health to support mental health and wellness
• Paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Financial rewards

• Competitive equity grants, so you share in Everlaw's long-term growth
• 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation

Growth & everyday perks

• 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave
• Four "Everlawlidays" (additional paid company-wide days off) per year
• Annual allocation for learning & development and relevant professional membership dues
• Hybrid work with regular work-from-home days and flexibility for life's logistics
• Monthly home internet reimbursement, plus a stipend for your desk setup
• Catered lunch each workday, plus snacks and company-wide events in our offices