Senior Partner Manager - Channels
At a glance
Senior Channel & Partnerships role at Datadog. Mumbai · full-time.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Recruit strategic channel partners in Mumbai, then build the relationships that produce new customer revenue
- Train current partners, plan joint pursuits, and work with them on shared selling opportunities
- Bring technical and marketing teams together for partnership launches and coordinate the rollout
- Run recurring partner reviews, track success measures, and hold partners accountable
- Work with regional enterprise and commercial sales teams to create partner-sourced pipeline and revenue
What you bring
- At least seven years in quota-carrying partner development, alliances, or channel sales at a cloud or SaaS company
- A record of taking sales opportunities from initial lead through close while negotiating agreements and sustaining partnerships
- The ability to understand technical architectures quickly and explain them clearly in writing and conversation
Who this fits
You’ll suit a senior channel role focused on recruiting, enabling, and selling through systems integrators, managed service providers, and value-added resellers. The position is based in Mumbai within a hybrid workplace and involves traveling for roughly one-fifth to three-tenths of your time. Experience managing premier Cloud MSP partners would strengthen your fit.
From the employer
Our Channels & Alliances Team’s charter builds and activates a strategic, differentiated and high-impact partner ecosystem for our best-of-breed multi-cloud monitoring product, one partner at a time. As a Senior Partner Manager, you will recruit and develop channel partners that drive new customer adoption and revenue, including Regional and Global Systems Integrators, Managed Service Providers, and Value Added Resellers.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
- Identify and recruit new strategic channel partners in Mumbai to drive revenue growth
- Enable and activate existing partners through training, planning and joint selling activities
- Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches
- Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics
- Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations
- Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue
Who You Are:
- Experienced in 7+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization
- Proven in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships
- Able to quickly comprehend technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing
- Proficiency in managing premier Cloud MSP partners will be advantageous
- Willing to travel 20-30% of the time
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- High income earning opportunities based on self performance
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Generous global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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