Strategic Partnership Leader

About NxtWave :

NxtWave is revolutionizing the 21st-century job market by transforming youth into highly skilled tech professionals irrespective of their educational background with our CCBP 4.0 programs.

By offering vernacular content and interactive learning, NxtWave is breaking the entry barrier for learning tech skills. Learning in their mother tongue helps learners achieve higher comprehension, deeper attention, longer retention and greater outcomes.

NxtWave was founded by Rahul Attuluri (Ex Amazon, IIIT Hyderabad), Sashank Reddy (IIT Bombay) and Anupam Pedarla (IIT Kharagpur).

NxtWave now has paid subscribers from 450+ districts across India who have spent 500 million minutes on its learning platform so far. In the last 12 months, NxtWave learners have been hired by 800+ companies including Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Goldman Sachs, Oracle, IBM, Bank of America, Deloitte and more.

We're growing fast and we need your talent, skills, and passion.

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The Strategic Partnerships Manager will play a leadership role in building ecosystem-level partnerships across AI, technology, corporate enterprises, CSR foundations, and innovation networks to accelerate NxtWave and NIAT’s mission of creating a future-ready tech workforce. This is not an operations role—it is a strategic growth role focused on forging high-value, long-term partnerships that unlock talent, innovation, branding, and industry collaboration opportunities at scale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Collaboration & Ecosystem Development

• Identify and onboard strategic partners across AI, digital technology, enterprise innovation, workforce development platforms, and national capability networks .
• Drive partnerships for talent enablement, curriculum integration, certifications, hiring alliances, CSR-driven skilling initiatives, and co-branded programs .

2. Partnership Ownership & Stakeholder Management

3. Proposal & Deal Structuring

4. Strategic Outreach & Brand Positioning

5. AI & Technology-Led Strategies

Key Success Metrics (KPIs)

Required Qualifications

Personal Attributes