Key Account Director - OEM
At a glance
Leadership Account Management role at Aiven. Austin.
Pay not stated
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Own major OEM and strategic technology partnerships across AMER, turning relationships into measurable ARR growth
- Recruit partners, negotiate OEM and ISV agreements, and build programs that expand indirect revenue
- Create joint go-to-market plans with sales, marketing, SAs, engineering, and operations
- Track partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline, including deal registration and PIO activity
- Coordinate GSIs, RSIs, ISVs, and AWS, Azure, or GCP relationships
What you bring
- You have built or scaled channel and OEM motions within infrastructure software companies
- You can show documented revenue growth, partner counts, and ARR contribution from named OEM relationships
- You have sold data, cloud, open source, DevOps, or middleware products to technical buyers
- You have negotiated OEM and ISV agreements and managed partner-led pipeline, not only direct sales
- You understand hyperscaler private offers and marketplace transactions on AWS, Azure, or GCP
Who this fits
You’ll suit a builder-operator who can create partner programs without an existing playbook and also work inside large enterprises. The role centers on OEM, channel, and ecosystem revenue across AMER, with cross-functional influence rather than a stated people-management requirement. Experience with open source monetization, public sector partner motions, or an IPO or major funding milestone would strengthen your fit.
From the employer
Key Account Director, OEM
Aiven · Full-time
The role
We're hiring a Key Account Director to own Aiven's largest OEM and strategic technology partnerships across AMER. You'll drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue — building the relationships, programs, and cross-functional alignment that turn partnerships into a measurable, growing share of ARR.
This is a role for a builder-operator: someone who has stood up or scaled channel and OEM motions inside infrastructure software companies before, and has the numbers to show for it.
Who we're looking for
You think in partnerships, not transactions. You've spent your career embedded in the channel — recruiting partners, building programs, negotiating OEM and ISV agreements, and pulling together sales, marketing, engineering, and product teams to grow joint business.
You're comfortable in a startup with no playbook and in a large enterprise where you have to create new habits between direct sellers and the partner ecosystem. What drives you is taking a partner relationship from a standing start — or a stalled one — and turning it into a self-sustaining revenue engine. You have the YoY growth numbers, partner counts, and ARR contributions to prove it.
What good looks like
OEM and strategic partnerships You've directly owned named OEM relationships — hardware, cloud, ISV embed deals — and can point to documented joint revenue growth from each.
Channel and indirect selling Your pipeline track record shows partner-sourced and partner-influenced deals (deal registration, PIO) — not just direct quota carrying.
Infrastructure software background You've sold data, cloud, open source, DevOps, or middleware products. You understand technical buyers and how developer-led adoption actually works.
Quantified revenue impact You own your numbers: Growth rate, Customer satisfaction rate, contribution to ARR milestones.
Cross-functional orchestration You've matrix-managed sales, marketing, SAs, engineering, and ops to execute joint go-to-market plans — and you know how to move all of them in the same direction at the same time.
Ecosystem fluency You're comfortable across GSIs (Accenture, PwC, EY, Tech Mahindra), RSIs (CDW, Insight, AHEAD, Optiv), ISVs, and the big-3 clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
What sets you apart
- Built a channel or partner program from scratch
- Hyperscaler marketplace and co-sell experience: AWS, Azure, or GCP private offers and marketplace transactions
- Been part of a company through an IPO or major funding milestone
- Fluent in open source commercial models: subscription, support, managed-service monetization
- Public sector exposure (FED/SLED) as an additional partner-led motion
- Managed direct or matrixed teams — a plus for this player-coach scope, not a hard requirement
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