Senior Partner Development Manager - Hospitality Partnerships
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We’re looking for a Senior Partner Development Manager - Hospitality Partnerships to join our Business Development team. You will proactively identify and secure strategic brand-level partnerships, lead complex negotiations, and drive initiatives that establish Lightspeed as an official or preferred partner across targeted hotel chains and hospitality brands.
This role acts as a commercial hunter and cross-functional change agent, ensuring alignment across teams, executing high-impact partnership agreements, and paving the way for scalable growth in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
What you’ll be doing:
- Drive and support strategic business development initiatives to secure Lightspeed as a mandated, preferred, or official technology partner at target hotel brands and corporate hospitality groups.
- Identify target groups, navigate complex corporate hierarchies, and own the end-to-end commercial negotiations for master framework agreements.
- Lead the transition of secured brand partnerships to regional direct sales teams, ensuring flawless execution, pipeline access, and property-level rollout.
- Foster collaboration and clear communication across departments (Sales, Legal, Product, Success) to maintain alignment and momentum during negotiations and handoff.
- Expand our partnership footprint beyond hotel brands into adjacent hospitality segments (e.g., multi-property restaurant groups, lifestyle hospitality).
- Partner with Product and Executive leadership to act as the internal voice of enterprise hospitality brands, feeding back market intelligence and brand requirements.
- Continuously assess priorities and adapt your focus in line with the company's growth and regional needs.
What you need to bring:
We're looking for a Senior candidate who has experience with the following:
- 6 + years of proven experience in B2B Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, or Enterprise Sales within the Hospitality Tech, Hotel Operations, or SaaS ecosystem.
- Proven experience leading complex negotiations and securing enterprise framework agreements or brand-standard listings with multi-property hotel chains.
- Background in high-growth, fast-paced environments - preferably within SaaS or technology sectors.
- An existing, actionable network across hotel brand executives, hospitality asset managers, or procurement teams.
What’s in it for you:
You’ll enjoy:
- A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work
- A culture that celebrates performance
- The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard
- Career-defining opportunities
Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.
- Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
- Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
- And more...
Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.
With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.
Lightspeed powers small and medium-sized businesses in over 100 countries around the world with its cloud-based commerce platform. Its smart, scalable, and dependable all-in-one POS software system helps restaurants and retailers sell across channels, manage operations, engage with consumers, accept payments, and grow their business. Lightspeed recently completed its initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). We're passionate about enabling people to do their best work!