Role research
FreeState of the Partner Manager Role 2026
121 job descriptions analyzed. The role has fractured into 3 archetypes with a $280K OTE spread and a 30-50% AI fluency comp premium.
April 2026
Featured ReportMemberPublished June 2026
Partnership Roles in AI: 2026 Salary Intelligence Report
Cash compensation benchmarks for 9 partnership roles across Frontier AI, Hyperscaler, and AI-Native Enterprise companies. Covers the AI skills premium, equity architecture by tier, and geographic compensation premiums.
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BlueThread trends research
Original research from the BlueThread team. Based on job description analysis, company profiling, field intelligence, and practitioner interviews.
Field intelligence
FreeThe Partner Reset Is Already Happening in the Field
What the reset data means for practitioners doing the job right now and what to do about it this week.
May 2026
Company intelligence
FreePartner Intelligence Report: Anthropic vs OpenAI
Side by side analysis of how Anthropic and OpenAI are building their partner orgs and what operators should watch next.
May 2026
Industry research
FreeThe Partner Reset Is Not Coming. It Is Already Here.
BlueThread intelligence brief on IDC's June 2026 ecosystem research, building on the field intelligence findings from May. What the data confirms about program architecture and co-sell execution.
June 2026
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