Partner Development Manager

**About the role**:
The Partner Development Manager (PDM) is an important and strategic role with responsibility for achieving or exceeding performance metrics including revenue, pipeline, new business and services delivered through development and management of a portfolio of partners.

Experience of having built partnerships from scratch that delivered hyper growth results based on the opportunity in the market is important.

Results to be achieved by facilitating strong planning sessions that capture joint goals, a strategy to achieve them and focused execution. Plans to include measurable outcomes, practice development, technical enablement, services capability development, business development, demand generation and executive alignment with regular stakeholder management and reviews. PDM to leverage joint alliances and partnerships with the hyper-scalers/cloud services providers (AWS, Microsoft and Google) and other technology alliance programs.

A solid understanding of the cloud market and the challenges customers face with cloud adoption is important as PDM's need to both influence and advise the partner on how to modernize and mature their cloud practices to be enterprise and multi-cloud ready by reviewing and influencing cloud adoption frameworks.

Reporting to the Partner and Alliances Regional Leader, the PDM will be a key member of the extended Partner team and will have geo responsibility for their assigned partners. Building a strong collaborative environment with Partner Sales Engineering and Partner Marketing to deliver outcomes from joint plans and develop and grow partners business.

**Responsibilities**
- Achieve or exceed all targets, metrics and MBO's
- Building commitment, capability, capacity, coverage and cultural alignment with named partners
- Establish and build joint business plans for focus partners that align to sales/services goals through developing named partners
- Build trusted relationships at all levels, facilitate executive alignment and commitment with partner and HashiCorp that deliver results
- Business development through creation of sales plays and programmatic approaches that connect HashiCorp portfolio with partners IP
- Facilitate account mapping, joint account planning and alignment with field sales for joint success
- Identify joint expansion services pursuits and large transformational services opportunities
- Work with the PSE and assigned partners to facilitate the development of vertical and horizontal solutions leveraging HashiCorp products
- Own partner MDF plans and collaborating on budgets with Partner Geo leader for accelerating pipeline
- Monitor and report on partner capabilities, expansion services opportunities, and partner scorecard
- Execute and coordinate QBRs with partners including key stakeholders on both sides
- Manage and drive partner engagement with HashiCorp sales organization

**Requirements**:

- 10+ years working in the IT industry ideally with experience
- Builder, business development, challenger, growth mindset
- Strategic thinking with ability to roll up sleeves and execute on strategy
- 5+ years of experience developing partnerships
- Cloud knowledge including benefits and challenges customers face with cloud adoption
- Enterprise solution selling experience where services is critical to customer outcomes
- Knowledge and understanding of SaaS, Consumption Economics, and MRR
- Ability to create short and long term strategic business plans
- Knowledge of the top Cloud Service Providers and their partner funding programs
- Strategic business and marketing planning capabilities
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven capacity to build strong relationships and close business with partners
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and strong stakeholder management
- Must be self-motivated, have strong self-management skills and should demonstrate basic leadership qualities
- Ability to work well in a highly dynamic / team environment that focuses on providing above industry standard customer service
- Domestic and occasionally international travel required

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