Partner Solutions Lead

Overview

Linktree — then the world's largest creator platform with about 24 million users — had roughly 200 companies wanting to integrate with it: video, restaurant menus, payments, e-commerce. No product team could build and maintain 200 bespoke integrations, so the company needed an ecosystem strategy. Jenks was hired to build it.

What Jenks did

• Owned the company's ecosystem and platform business strategy and its execution.
• Led an ecosystem engineering team and product managers to deliver platform and developer products against a tight deadline.
• Onboarded and managed five outsourced companies with 30+ contractors across two product pods, including Thoughtworks.
• Worked with the partnerships team to design technical solutions for partners.
• Started Linktree's developer relations team and developer community.

Achievements

• Shipped 3 APIs, SDKs, a Developer Portal and App Store integrations.
• Created the foundations of a partner platform instead of 200 one-off features.

Why it matters to employers

This is engineering-management and platform-product leadership under time pressure: strategy, architecture, vendor orchestration and launch. It is directly relevant to engineering manager, platform lead and solution architect roles — and to AI transformation, where the same "platform, not one-offs" principle applies to agents and tools.