Founding Partnerships & Growth Revenue Partner
About the role
Lumenfolk is seeking a founding partnerships and growth revenue builder to help transform its mobile app portfolio into a revenue-generating ecosystem. This role is not a traditional partnerships role but rather a zero-to-one commercial opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Build the first partnerships strategy across Lumenfolk's mobile app portfolio.
- Identify and pursue strategic partners, sponsors, affiliates, communities, brands, local businesses, creators, agencies, and institutions.
- Create partnership packages that generate revenue, audience growth, distribution, or product validation.
- Develop early channel partnerships for mobile app adoption.
- Work with product and marketing to translate partner feedback into growth opportunities.
First 12-Month Outcomes
- Build a prioritized partner pipeline across the mobile app portfolio.
- Secure the first revenue-generating partnerships.
- Validate 2–3 repeatable partnership models.
- Create standard partnership packages and pricing.
- Build the CRM and follow-up system for partnerships.
- Generate early non-dilutive revenue through sponsorships, affiliates, pilots, or paid partner placements.
- Create the foundation for a future partnerships, growth, or revenue team.
Compensation
This is an early founding role structured for ownership-level upside. For the first 6–12 months, compensation will be primarily equity- and performance-based. Salary is expected to begin once revenue or financing milestones are reached.
Who This Is For You
We are especially interested in individuals with experience building partnerships, growth, sponsorship, affiliate, or revenue channels from zero, selling a new product before the market fully understands it, turning warm networks, cold outreach, events, communities, and creator relationships into revenue, understanding mobile apps, consumer growth, local/community partnerships, or brand partnerships, building lightweight systems without waiting for a full operations team, and being energized by equity upside and early-stage company-building.
Strong Backgrounds
We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in:
- Mobile app growth
- Brand partnerships
- Sponsorship sales
- Affiliate marketing
- Local marketplace growth
- Community partnerships
- Creator partnerships
- Consumer startups
- Events, lifestyle, fashion, health, fintech, civic tech, or local discovery
- Early-stage GTM
Who This Is Not For
This role is not suitable for those needing:
- A market-rate salary on day one
- A mature sales or partnerships team
- A polished partner program
- A single-product mandate
- A predictable quota model
- Fully built collateral
- A role limited to relationship management without revenue accountability
Interview Focus
We will want to understand:
- What partnerships or growth channels you have built from zero.
- How you would generate revenue across a mobile app portfolio.
- Which partnership categories you would test first.
- How you think about sponsorships, affiliates, co-marketing, and B2B2C distribution.
- How you would prioritize across multiple apps.
- How you would create a repeatable partner pipeline.
- Whether this risk/reward profile genuinely fits your life right now.
How to Apply
Please email your resume and a brief cover letter to hello@lumenfolk.co with the subject line: Founding Partnerships & Growth Revenue Partner — Lumenfolk.