Marie Knight

Business Development Executive

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States20 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Negotiated high-impact deals with major tech companies.
  • Launched innovative AI solutions for content authenticity.
  • Built global teams to enhance partner engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused technology executive with expertise in strategic partnerships and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic PartnershipsProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentProject ManagementCustomer RelationsMarketingLeadership Development

Other Skills

NegotiationPartnership DevelopmentGlobal Partner StrategyRevenue GenerationAccount ManagementTeam ManagementPartnership BuildingVendor ManagementMarketing StrategyTeachingRetail ServicesProduct TrainingSales OperationsEmail MarketingDigital Marketing

About

Global technology executive with a proven track record of negotiating strategic partnerships with large technology companies that drive product-led-growth. Drives transformational change through strategic partnerships for improved customer outcomes. Passionate about leading global teams to find mutual value with partners, even when competitive overlap is present, resulting in enduring, successful partnerships. Demonstrative wins: 1. Negotiated high-impact deals: Led complex negotiations with large technology companies like Meta, Google, Amazon and LinkedIn that solved cross-cloud customer needs. Identified common use cases and broke down silos across teams to execute contracts and reduce time to value. 2. Launched innovative genAI solutions: Launched Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) to set technical standards for AI-generated content. Negotiated foundational partnerships with leaders including The NYTimes, Twitter, BBC, truepic, Nikon and others. 3. Led high-growth, performant teams: Built global teams from India to the Netherlands to better meet needs of a global partner economy. Created a culture of accountability and growth, matching each team members’ unique skill sets with business growth objectives.

Experience

20 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
11 yrs
Current Experience

Adobe

Director of Technology Partnerships, GenAI, Content & Commerce

Apr 2015Present · 11 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Driving strategic partnerships in new areas of innovation for Adobe Commerce and Content. Over the course of my Adobe career I've helped launch three new initiatives that were partner dependent, captured below. Most recently, my focus has been on responsible AI with large technology and media platforms.
Strategic PartnershipsNegotiationProduct Management

Adaptly

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Jul 2014Apr 2015 · 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Responsible for the global partner strategy for social media partners (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest). Synthesized a strategy across product and account management silos, leading to new revenue channels for Adaptly and an improved partner workflow experience for our customers.
Global Partner StrategyRevenue GenerationAccount ManagementStrategic PartnershipsBusiness Development

Neustar, inc. (formerly targusinfo)

Director Business Development - Agency Team and Technology Platforms Team

Jul 2011Jul 2014 · 3 yrs · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • At Neustar I began my Ad Tech career and demonstrated my ability to quickly learn new concepts, lead and manage teams with revenue goals and build first of it’s kind partnerships with our data partner ecosystem. Our ecosystem at that time included data start ups, agency brands and enterprise companies.
Business DevelopmentTeam ManagementPartnership BuildingStrategic Partnerships

B-line medical

Project Manager

Oct 2009Jul 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • A sub-30 person company when I joined, I wore multiple hats at B-Line Medical. I was the key link between product, project teams, vendor relationships and customers ensuring that we delivered our products on time and under our budget. This included on-site installations at major healthcare organizations across the country.
Project ManagementVendor ManagementCustomer Relations

The advisory board company

Associate Director

Jun 2007Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Starting as a Marketing Associate, I quickly advanced within The Advisory Board Company to hold direct relationships with hospital executive teams. Our goal was to influence leadership development best practices in hospitals across the country, accomplished by onsite teaching (the “Academy”) to improve hospital relations with their staff and patient communities.
Marketing StrategyLeadership DevelopmentTeachingMarketing

Cip marketing corporation

Lead Marketing Specialist

Jun 2005Jun 2007 · 2 yrs · Greater Chicago Area

  • An all encompassing retail services company that can run a project from the ground up or lend a hand during the process.
  • Worked directly with the US adidas account
  • Selected as one out of forty-five product specialists to be trained at adidas headquarters and led Midwest product training for Stella McCartney athletic line
Retail ServicesProduct TrainingProject ManagementMarketing

Education

Loyola University Chicago

Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts

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