Upwork announced Upwork Partners, a new program for companies to establish partnerships with Upwork that highlight skilled independent professionals on Upwork to serve their customers? most pressing business needs, as well as connect freelancers with tools that supercharge productivity and improve work quality. Initially, Upwork Partners encompasses three main partnership models: Upwork Partner Experts.

Complex, specific work requires the exact right professional and skillset. Through the Upwork Partner Experts offering, partners can provide their customers direct access to a set of trusted expert independent professionals that they?ve curated as being deeply experienced in working with their technologies, available right at the moment customers need them. The first example of this partnership model was launched through OpenAI Experts on Upwork in mid-2023, and Upwork has since forged similar agreements with GoDaddy, BigCommerce, Constant Contact and others.

Apps and Offers. On Upwork?s apps and offers page, partners can market and provide special access to their apps, tools and products that can help freelancers boost their productivity and creativity, automate tasks, and run their businesses more efficiently. Dropbox, Notion and iStock by Getty Images are the most recent partners to join Adobe and others in adding access to their products through apps and offers on Upwork.

Partner Offers. Partner Offers result in straightforward discounts on Upwork services, available directly within partners? platform environments, apps or customer experiences.

Ramp, Brex, and Mercury all currently partner with Upwork through this offering. Upwork also continues to build out support and flexible models for partners to help them achieve their goals and engage within the Upwork ecosystem. A recent example is Upwork?s set of partnerships with vendor management systems and managed service providers for Enterprise Suite, aimed at forming more comprehensive and unified approaches to workforce management.