Platform Partnerships Specialist

The Platform Partnerships Specialist is primarily responsible for supporting and strengthening relationships with Platform partners by coordinating engagement efforts, managing partnership opportunities, and helping cultivate a healthy ecosystem of ministries, organizations, developers, and builders. This role serves as a key connection point between partners and internal teams by maintaining visibility into partner engagement, supporting technical discovery, and helping advance opportunities that expand the impact of the YouVersion Platform.

YouVersion was created by the local church in 2007 and remains a ministry of Life.Church today. At Life.Church, our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. Our team is committed to reaching people worldwide through innovative technology. And YouVersion is one of the ways we get to do that. Life.Church is a multi-site Christian church meeting in the United States and globally at Life.Church Online.

We wholeheartedly believe a daily rhythm of seeking intimacy with God has the power to transform lives. That’s why YouVersion creates biblically-based experiences that encourage and challenge people to seek God. We hope everyone in our community is on an active journey to become who God made them to be, abiding in Him, and drawing closer every day.

This role operationally supports the team's direction, initiatives, and ministry efforts to achieve outcomes that further Life.Church's mission and reach people for Christ.

What You'll Do

Cultivate Partner Relationships

• Support onboarding and engagement of Platform partners and builders.
• Maintain visibility into partner health, sentiment, and engagement trends.
• Coordinate partner communications, follow-up, and engagement activities.
• Ensure commitments, opportunities, and action items are completed and appropriately followed through.
• Support community-building efforts and partner success initiatives.

Advance Partnership Opportunities

• Help identify, research, and qualify potential Platform opportunities.
• Maintain visibility into the broader partner landscape, including publishers, ministries, churches, developers, AI builders, and other strategic organizations.
• Coordinate follow-up from conferences, events, and strategic conversations.
• Track and mature opportunity pipelines before they require Director-level involvement.
• Surface partnership trends, ecosystem insights, and emerging opportunities to leadership.
• Develop a strong understanding of the YouVersion Platform, APIs, SDKs, and partner integration models.

Support Platform Collaboration

• Support technical discovery and solution exploration.
• Utilize AI-first workflows and modern tooling to better understand partner needs and use cases.
• Act as a bridge between partners, builders, Product teams, and Engineering teams.

Skills Needed to Succeed

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to clearly explain complicated processes and foster relationships and partnerships.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently while accomplishing assigned tasks with excellence.
• Excellent management, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective at multi-tasking, time and process management, follow-up, and prioritization to achieve goals and meet deadlines.
• Maintain flexibility and initiate the creation of new processes and project strategies.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred.
• 1-3 years of related work experience.