Director, Buyer Growth Partnerships & Referral

About G2 - The Company G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. When you join G2, you’re joining the industry’s leading team that helps businesses reach their peak potential by powering decisions and strategies with trusted insights from real software users. Now, we have joined forces with Capterra https://www.capterra.com/, SoftwareAdvice https://www.softwareadvice.com/, and GetApp https://www.getapp.com/ to create the largest source of online data and software insights to fuel intelligent buying in the age of AI. With 200M+ combined annual visitors and 6M verified reviews, we are now the centralized place to enable software buyers to make better and faster decisions with confidence. And we are just getting started! We are setting out to transform the global B2B software industry and become the most trusted data foundation for buyers and sellers of software for the age of AI. Does that sound exciting to you? Come join us as we try to reach our next PEAK! About G2 - Our People At G2, everything we are and what we do is grounded in our PEAK values— (Performance + Entrepreneurship + Authenticity + Kindness. Working at G2 means you are part of a value-driven, growing global community that climbs PEAKs together. We cheer for each other’s successes, learn from our mistakes, and support and lean on one another during challenging times. With ambition and entrepreneurial spirit we push each other to take on challenging work, which will help us all to grow and learn. You will be part of a global, diverse team of smart, dedicated, and kind individuals - each with unique talents, aspirations, and life experiences. At the heart of our community and culture are our people-led ERGs, which celebrate and highlight the diverse identities of our global team. As an organization, we are intentional about our DEI https://company.g2.com/dei and philanthropic work (like our G2 Gives https://company.g2.com/gives program) because it encourages us all to be better people. ABOUT THE ROLE G2 is looking for a Director, Growth Partnerships & Referral to build the partnerships engine that brings qualified software buyers to G2, Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice. As AI-mediated search reshapes how buyers research enterprise AI, agentic, and SaaS software, referral partnerships and affiliates become a critical opportunity of buyer acquisition alongside organic and paid channels. This is a hybrid business development and growth marketing role spanning product-led partnerships, affiliate and media channel programs, and emerging buyer-discovery surfaces. This role's brief is to design and operate a portfolio that holds to that standard: repeatable, sustainable, mutually valuable, and measurably good for G2's traffic and revenue. The right candidate will be the strategic and operational owner who will design the program, launch it, and grow it into one of the top traffic sources across all four brands. DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES: REFERRAL STRATEGY & OPERATING MODEL - Own the referral pillar's OKRs — buyer traffic, qualified traffic share, referral-attributed revenue, and source diversification — across all four brands. - Define the partnership portfolio: which motions matter, at what depth, and how they differ by brand. - Build a prioritization framework balancing quick wins (vendor badges, podcasts, review sites) against strategic bets (cloud marketplaces, VC/PE portfolio programs, AI buyer-discovery surfaces). PARTNERSHIP PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT - Identify, prioritize, and develop a diversified portfolio of partnership types that will drive Buyer traffic or users — spanning ecosystem and channel partners, affiliate and media partners, content and community partners, distributed product-led referral channels, and emerging buyer-discovery surfaces. - Source, evaluate, and structure deals across a range of commercial models — including rate-card and CPA media buys, affiliate commission and rev-share structures, strategic data