Partner Marketing Manager

Abu Dhabi \~ On site

AppliedAI is a pioneering AI technology company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, committed to innovation and excellence in artificial intelligence solutions across regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, government, and financial services.

We are hiring our first Partner Marketing Manager to build a marketing function designed entirely around our partner ecosystem.

You will report directly to the CRO and be responsible for making our partners more effective at selling Opus, systematizing event-driven demand generation, and packaging vertical expertise into assets that enterprise buyers and partner sales teams find credible.

This is not a traditional marketing role.

We do not have an inbound funnel.

We do not run SEO campaigns.

We do not need brand management.

Over 60% of our pipeline comes through channel partners, and the rest comes from executive networks and co-hosted events.

Your job is to accelerate that engine — not build a different one.

You will be the only marketing person in the company.

There is no existing playbook, no marketing automation stack, and no established brand guidelines.

You will build from scratch, and every dollar and hour you spend should be traceable to a partner relationship or a pipeline-generating event.

Create the assets that make our partners' sales teams more effective at positioning Opus.

Joint solution briefs co-branded with each partner, tailored to their client base and industry focus.

Partner case studies in written, video, and slide formats.

Partner-facing cheat sheets, battlecards, and FAQ documents.

Monthly partner newsletter with product updates, win stories, and certification news.

Build direct relationships with marketing counterparts at our tier-1 partners to coordinate joint PR, co-branded content, and shared event strategies.

Own the full lifecycle of co-hosted events with partners.

Pre-event: define target audience with the partner, manage invitations and registrations, create pre-event content, set pipeline targets.

On-site: manage branding and materials, coordinate demos with our solutions team, run structured lead capture.

Post-event: own the follow-up sequence within 48 hours, route qualified leads to geo AEs with context, produce event recap content for partner distribution.

Maintain a rolling quarterly event calendar targeting one co-hosted event per geo per quarter.

: Package our vertical expertise (healthcare/medical coding, banking/trade finance, insurance/claims processing) into distributable content.

You are not creating this content alone — our Solutions team and Enablement Lead provide the technical substance and vertical knowledge.

You translate that into polished formats: 3–4 page vertical whitepapers, ROI calculators by use case, 60–90 second explainer videos, and co-brandable slide decks.

Every piece of content should be something a partner AE would confidently send to a CFO or Head of Operations before a first meeting.