Vice President, Partnership Sales

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Vice President, Partnership Sales based in the United States.

This is a senior revenue leadership opportunity focused on building and scaling a high-impact partnership sales organization within the cybersecurity and enterprise technology sector.

You’ll own the partnership sales strategy, operating model, and performance while accelerating partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue growth.

The role combines executive relationship management, channel strategy, team leadership, strategic planning, and data-driven commercial execution.

You’ll lead a team of seven Channel Account Managers and develop the systems, capabilities, and processes needed to scale the function sustainably.

You’ll work closely with Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Legal, Customer Success, and Product to create stronger partner programs and market opportunities.

The position emphasizes AI-native workflows, continuous forecasting, measurable performance, and efficient allocation of resources across strategic partnerships.

This is a highly visible leadership role for an experienced commercial executive who can turn complex partnership ecosystems into durable revenue growth.

Accountabilities:

• Own the overall partnership sales strategy and performance, establishing clear revenue objectives, operating rhythms, accountability structures, and execution plans that increase partner-sourced and partner-influenced growth.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven Channel Account Managers across multiple levels and areas of focus, building the leadership capabilities, systems, and operating model required for sustainable scale.
• Assess the existing partner landscape using first-principles thinking to identify where partnerships can create the greatest business value, simplify ineffective approaches, and focus resources on high-potential relationships and motions.
• Establish AI-native ways of working across partnership sales, using intelligent systems for partner identification, prioritization, enablement, forecasting, and execution while ensuring human judgment remains central to relationship-driven decisions.
• Define and monitor the metrics that matter for partnership performance, using data to evaluate productivity, pipeline contribution, resource allocation, and the effectiveness of partnership investments.
• Adapt partnership strategy and execution as customer needs, technology ecosystems, markets, and business priorities evolve, providing clarity through ambiguity while maintaining momentum against revenue objectives.
• Build and strengthen executive-level relationships with strategic resellers, technology alliances, and cloud marketplaces, including major cloud ecosystems, to create joint strategies and measurable commercial opportunities.
• Develop high-value partnerships from initial strategy and negotiation through launch, enablement, expansion, and ongoing performance management.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Legal, Customer Success, and Product to align priorities, remove execution barriers, strengthen partner programs, and create a cohesive partner experience.
• Establish scalable processes for partner planning, forecasting, enablement, performance management, and executive reporting while continuously improving the partnership sales organization.

• Proven sales leadership experience within information security, cybersecurity, or a closely related technology market, with meaningful accountability for revenue outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience building, establishing, or scaling channel and partnership sales programs involving reseller, channel, technology…