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Community & GrowthSimulated project
Ecosystem Partnerships Manager portfolio brief
A simulated community & growth exercise for Ecosystem Partnerships Manager. Treat it as realistic practice, not real client or protocol work.
6 deliverables6 tools referenced3 linked interview questions
Objective
Build a partner map for one ecosystem
Expected deliverables
Ecosystem mapPartner qualification memoPipeline reviewIntegration briefJoint launch planPartnership retrospective
Recommended workflow
- Build a partner map for one ecosystem
- Write qualification criteria and two outreach examples
- Create an execution checklist from first call to post-launch review
- Review the result against the rubric, then package it as a case study.
Constraints and safety
- Use only public sources or clearly simulated data.
- Never include seed phrases, private keys, or wallet secrets.
- Redact private user, company, security, legal, or compensation information.
- State every assumption you make.
Tools in practice
- HubSpot or Airtable
- Track partner fit, stage, commitments, owners, and follow-ups so the pipeline reflects real progress rather than announcement volume.
- Notion
- Draft, review, and maintain ecosystem map and partner qualification memo, with owners, source links, and change history.
- Research decision-makers, partner history, company context, and relationship paths before outreach.
- Telegram
- Coordinate stakeholders and capture decisions or issues that feed into ecosystem map and partner qualification memo.
- Dune or ecosystem analytics
- Collect and analyse the evidence used in ecosystem map and partner qualification memo, with definitions and reproducible steps.
- technical docs
- Draft, review, and maintain ecosystem map and partner qualification memo, with owners, source links, and change history.
What a strong submission shows
- A 25-partner ecosystem map
- Three tailored partnership memos
- An integration handoff plan
- A retrospective on a partnership that produced little value
Weak submission patterns
- A list of famous projects with no qualification
- Meeting volume as the only metric
- Generic outreach sent to unrelated partners
Review rubric
- Accuracy of claims and sources
- Relevance to the target role
- Decision quality and trade-offs
- Completeness of the deliverable
- Clarity of communication
- Honest limitations and next steps
Present it as a case study
- Explain the problem, sources, decisions, ownership, constraints, output, review, and what you would change.
- Show the final artifact before the process notes.
- State what you owned and what belonged to other people.
- Label the work as simulated, and keep any real contribution clearly separate.
Interview questions this project helps you answer
How do you decide whether a partnership is strategically useful or merely announcement material?
What should happen between verbal agreement and a live integration?
How would you handle a partner asking for incentives that the programme cannot justify?
Turn this into an application
Practice interviewsRehearse the Ecosystem Partnerships Manager questions above with the answer framework.Package and applyUse the Get Hired journey to turn this brief into a case study and targeted application.Related role guideSee the full Ecosystem Partnerships Manager scope, proof standards, and boundaries.