Director, Strategic Alliances

Zenity

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience building alliances with major enterprise tech platforms in previous roles.
  • Ability to articulate a repeatable approach to partnership development.
  • Successful history of defining offerings and executing go-to-market strategies.
  • Experience across various company sizes, including both large platforms and startups.
  • Background in cybersecurity, data, or AI technology ecosystems.

Responsibilities

  • Own outbound strategic partnerships with leading enterprise SaaS platforms.
  • Manage and prioritize inbound partnership requests and evaluate fit.
  • Build and scale a technology partner program from the ground up.
  • Define co-marketing strategies and take partnerships to market.
  • Collaborate with sales, marketing, and product teams to enhance partnerships.
  • Track and report on pipeline and revenue influenced by partnerships.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to build a new function from scratch, representing true ownership.
  • Direct interaction with Zenity's executive team, including CEO and CTO.
  • Engagement with a company pioneering AI Agent Security in enterprise security.
  • Potential for significant impact and recognition for demonstrable results.
Full Job Description
Description

About the Role

This role owns our outbound strategic partnerships with the major enterprise SaaS and platform players, manages inbound partnership requests, and builds out a formal technology partner program. You'll define the offering, structure the go-to-market motion, and take it to market. If you can't walk us through exactly how you've done this, the approach, the results, what you'd do differently, this probably isn't the right fit.

What You'll Do:

  • Own outbound strategic alliances with enterprise platforms, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Oracle, Workday, Zendesk, NVIDIA, and others across the SaaS and data ecosystem
  • Manage and triage inbound partnership requests, evaluate fit, prioritize, and build the right structures for each
  • Build and scale a formal technology partner program from the ground up, including tiering, enablement, and co-sell motions
  • Define joint value propositions, structure offerings, and take partnerships to market, not just define them on paper
  • Work cross-functionally with Zenity's sales, marketing, and product teams to activate and expand partnerships
  • Track and report on partner-influenced and partner-sourced pipeline, revenue impact, and program health

Requirements

What You've Done:

  • Built alliances with major enterprise tech platforms across 2 or 3 companies, not inherited them, built them and can tell the story clearly
  • Have a repeatable approach: you can walk through how you did it, why it worked, and what you'd do again
  • Defined the offering, structured the partner framework, and executed a go-to-market motion successfully
  • Have versatility across company sizes, ideally some combination of time at a large platform company and a startup
  • Come from a cybersecurity, data, or AI background, you understand how security fits into the broader platform ecosystem
  • Know what good looks like for partner-sourced revenue and technology partner program maturity

What We Look For At Zenity

  • Proven ability to build, not just maintain, systems, processes, or relationships
  • Comfort operating in evolving, fast-moving environments where the playbook is still being written
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes, not just activity
  • Experience in high-growth or venture-backed environments
  • Exposure to AI, security, or emerging technology ecosystems

What Success Looks Like

  • We have clearly defined alliances with 2-3 major platforms, structured, intentional, with a real GTM motion behind each
  • Inbound partnerships are being evaluated and handled systematically, not ad hoc
  • A technology partner program exists with documented tiers, enablement resources, and co-sell tracking

Why This Role

  • You're building something that doesn't fully exist yet. Real ownership, not maintenance mode
  • Direct exposure to Zenity's CEO and CTO as a strategic function from day one
  • Category-defining company, AI Agent Security is the next frontier of enterprise security
  • Meaningful upside for someone who can show the work, not just talk about it

Interview Process

Our interview process is designed to be transparent, conversational, and focused on real-world experience. Stages and timing may flex based on interviewer availability and business need.

  • Recruiter Interview (30 min, phone)
  • Hiring Manager Interview (45 min, Zoom)
  • People Team Interview (30 min, Zoom)
  • Peer Interview (30-60 min, Zoom, 1-2 peers)
  • VP of Partnerships (30 min, Zoom)


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