Partnerships Manager
Akur8
| Company | Akur8 |
| Category | Sales |
| Location | New-York |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | USD 150k–180k |
| Posted | 31 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (ashby) |
Description
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Akur8 is a fast-growing InsurTech scale-up on a mission to help insurers make better decisions, faster.
Our SaaS platform turns complex risk data into clear, transparent insights, enabling teams to price risk accurately today and anticipate claims tomorrow.
Powered by advanced analytics and transparent machine learning, Akur8 brings speed, reliability, and clarity to critical insurance decisions — developed by multidisciplinary teams in product, engineering, and actuarial expertise.
Recognized globally, Akur8 has been featured in:
- CB Insights’ Insurtech 50 (2025)
- CNBC’s InsurTech Top 150 (2025)
- InsurTech100 Global Insurtech Top 100 (2025)
- Professional Equality Index 97/100 (2025)
With 40+ nationalities across 6 global offices, we serve 320+ clients across 4 continents — scaling rapidly in mature insurance markets.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, assessing all applications fairly based on skills, experience, and potential. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are core to who we are.
To learn more about Akur8, and what we do, click here https://www.akur8.com/.
Akur8 is, in all senses of the term, an equal opportunities employer. Akur8 puts diversity, equality and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications based on equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination.
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The Partnerships team is central to Akur8's revenue growth in North America.
Akur8 is looking for its new Partnerships Manager reporting to our Head of Corporate Development and Partnership, to help grow and maintain our business across the US and Canada. Based either in New York or Montreal, you will play a key role in building the partner network that supports Akur8’s growth in the North American insurance market.
The role focuses on developing relationships with system integrators, Big Four firms, solution vendors, and actuarial consulting firms. You will manage a portfolio of strategic partners, work closely with Account Executives on active opportunities, and create joint initiatives that generate new business and strengthen Akur8’s position in the market.
You will combine relationship management with commercial ownership. From executive engagement and joint pipeline reviews to partner training and co-marketing initiatives, you will help partners understand Akur8’s value and bring it to more insurance organizations.
Your responsibilities will include, but won’t be limited to:
- Owning Akur8’s partner relationships across the US and Canada, managing day-to-day collaboration from engagement across the Big 4, SI, Solution vendors as well as executive-level engagement.
- Building clear engagement plans with strategic partners, including regular check-ins, executive-sponsored go-to-market sessions, and joint pipeline reviews.
- Work with Marketing and key partners to develop joint campaigns and events that create qualified pipelines.
- Partner with Account Executives throughout active sales cycles
- Identify and win opportunities where a system integrator will support implementation, ensuring Akur8 is involved early in the sales process.
- Coordinate partner training and certification programs with Akur8’s Actuarial Data Science and Solution Delivery teams ensuring partners stay current on product developments and maintain high standards of usage.
- Develop new relationships with system integrators and other relevant firms in the US insurance market.
The position will require travelling for insurance industry events, partner meetings and joint customers activities across North America.
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