Sr. Channel Development Manager, National Partners

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Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. We are looking for a Principal Channel Development Manager to join our high-impact sales organization. This individual will own and scale strategic relationships across our Partner Ecosystem—specifically targeting one of our National Partners. You'll play a critical role in developing joint go-to-market strategies, accelerating pipeline, and ensuring the long-term success of our partners.

This is a high-visibility role that combines business development, partner enablement, and sales execution.

• Build, manage, and expand strategic relationships across key channel partners and distributors
• Lead and execute comprehensive partner account plans, including enablement, pipeline development, and performance metrics
• Develop and implement scalable go-to-market initiatives to increase partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue
• Forecast and drive pipeline conversion, working cross-functionally with sales teams to ensure partner success
• Identify, recruit, and activate new partners aligned to Cohesity’s growth strategy
• Serve as a trusted advisor and advocate for your partners—ensuring alignment with mutual business objectives
• Enable partner sales and technical teams through training, certifications, and ongoing support
• Collaborate with Cohesity’s marketing and alliances teams to drive joint campaigns and ROI-positive partner activities
• Measure and report on partner performance, engagement, and pipeline contribution, with a continuous eye toward optimization
• Drive executive relationships across partner organizations to strengthen collaboration and identify new revenue streams

• 8+ years of experience in channel development, partner management, or strategic alliances
• 5 + years of leadership; building and growing teams
• Proven success in building and scaling channel programs with Global System Integrators and/or Distributors
• Strong track record of achieving and exceeding quota through partner-sourced revenue
• Strategic thinker with the ability to design and execute impactful business plans across complex ecosystems
• Experience aligning cross-functional teams (sales, marketing, technical) to partner objectives
• Excellent communicator and presenter, confident engaging with executive and technical audiences
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple high-impact partnerships simultaneously

This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants.

Pay Range : $-$ The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment. Current pay transparency shows the OTE (On-Target Earnings) for commission-based roles.

Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance…