Senior Director, Strategic Travel Partnerships

About Engine

At Engine , we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.

To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.

More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine -only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.

Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.

About the Role

Engine is looking for a Senior Director, Strategic Travel Partnerships to help lead and scale the supply side of our travel ecosystem.

This role is focused on building deep, long-term partnerships with major lodging providers, hospitality groups, and key platform and technology partners — unlocking differentiated access, supporting international growth, and enabling supplier-facing capabilities on the Engine platform. Think of it as the work of building the network that makes Engine 's travel experience genuinely best-in-class.

You will operate as a senior leader working across Partnerships, Product, Operations, and Finance — and as a primary external face of Engine in high-stakes, executive-level partner relationships. You'll help shape how Engine shows up as both a powerful distribution channel and a modern technology partner for the suppliers on our platform.

This is a high-visibility leadership role for someone who knows how to build strategic partnerships that are commercially sound, scalable, and built to last.
What You'll Do

- Lead and grow Engine 's strategic travel supply partnerships across lodging providers, hospitality groups, and key platform partners

- Serve as a senior external representative of Engine in complex, multi-stakeholder partner relationships — including C-suite and executive-level engagement

- Develop and execute partnership strategies aligned with Engine 's growth objectives and customer experience goals

- Work closely with Product and Engine ering to inform supplier-facing capabilities, integrations, and workflows — translating partner needs into platform opportunities

- Bring commercial rigor to partnership structures: evaluating tradeoffs across growth, economics, risk, and long-term durability

- Shape Engine 's positioning as a technology and platform partner, enabling new capabilities and deeper integrations over time

- Build scalable operating approaches for partner engagement, onboarding, and ongoing relationship management

- Stay ahead of trends across travel, distribution, and platform dynamics to inform strategy and prioritization

What You'll Bring

- 10+ years of experience leading complex, high-impact partnerships — in travel, hospitality, enterprise SaaS, fintech, marketplaces or other platform-driven businesses

- A proven track record structuring and scaling strategic partnerships that balance near-term growth with long-term trust, incentive alignment, and leverage

- Experience working with large, sophisticated partners at the executive level — whether that's hospitality groups, enterprise customers, technology platforms, or ecosystem players

- Strong commercial judgment: you can evaluate complex tradeoffs and make sound decisions und