Partner Manager for a Day: The Real Day-in-the-Life

Hosted by Amanda Nielsen

In this video

What you'll learn

What the Job Really Feels Like

Reveal the real day-to-day of partnerships so students can see if the work actually matches their strengths and energy

Experience the Role Live

Walk through live scenarios to help students feel what the role requires and whether the job feels exciting or draining

Assess Your Fit Fast

Show the key skills and instincts great partner managers share so students can assess their own fit with the role

Why this topic matters

This lesson helps you gut-check whether partnerships is actually the right career path for you — the pace, the chaos, the upside. Once you see how the role really works, you can decide if it matches your strengths and ambition. And if it does, you walk away knowing exactly why this path can offer bigger growth, better leverage, and way more long-term opportunity.

You'll learn from

Amanda Nielsen

Partnerships Strategist & Career Mentor

Amanda Nielsen is a partnerships strategist, career mentor, and meme-loving ecomm founder. She is a partner manager at Box, where she builds co-sell motions and partner programs with top-tier agencies and SIs.


Prior to Box, Amanda was a founding member of the partnerships function at a high-growth SaaS scale-up, where she helped build the partner program from the ground up while also carrying a quota — meaning she knows exactly what it’s like to figure this out in real time.


She’s helped professionals pivot into partnerships roles through 1:1 mentorship, resume coaching, and real-world career guidance, with a focus on turning transferable skills into strategic storytelling.


Amanda built this course because partnerships is still one of the most misunderstood and best-kept secrets in go-to-market.


This is the course she wishes existed when she made her own pivot: no fluff, no gatekeeping, just tactical insights to help you land the role and actually succeed in it.

Where I’ve built, sold, and scaled

Box
Formstack
DemandLab
Revenue Grid
New Breed

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