SolarWinds

GSI Partner Alliance Manager - USA

SolarWinds$90K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 5 years as a GSI Channel or Account manager, ideally within a SaaS/ISV environment
  • Strong grasp of enterprise software sales cycles and partner-led go-to-market strategies
  • Experience with Observability Tools preferred
  • Proficient in managing complex GSI relationships and engaging C-level executives
  • History of meeting and exceeding partnership revenue targets
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Develop joint business plans with partners and internal stakeholders focusing on growth and pipeline generation
  • Build and maintain executive-level relationships for long-term account success
  • Ensure GSI teams are well-equipped with necessary training and resources for effective representation
  • Collaborate with sales, engineering, and alliance leaders to pursue and close customer opportunities
  • Track, report, and forecast partner performance and health of the partnership
  • Plan and execute sales campaigns alongside partners and internal teams
  • Engage in co-selling efforts by delivering SolarWinds' value proposition to end users.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, matrixed global technology environment
  • Potential for professional development and growth with strategic GSI partnerships
  • Work with a dynamic and collaborative team focused on innovative solutions
  • Exposure to executive-level engagements and decision-making processes.
Full Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and driven GSI Alliance Manager to lead and grow strategic relationship GSI partners. This world-class candidate is responsible to develop joint go-to-market strategies including a SolarWinds observability practice, enable partner success, drive pipeline growth, build executive and C-level partner relationships, and collaboration/alignment with internal stakeholders and sales teams. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, skilled collaborator, and results-oriented professional with a deep understanding and experience with global partner ecosystems and enterprise level sales cycles. Responsibilities: • Develop a joint business plan for assigned partners in collaboration with internal and partner stakeholders across the organization with a focus growth, new logo acquisition, customer expansion, long term customer retention and renewal, along with enablement and pipeline generation goals and activities • Develop and influence executive level relationships, initiatives, and programs for long-term sustained account success. Act as trusted advisor and advocate ensuring frictionless engagement and long-term growth. • Drive partner enablement ensuring GSI teams are equipped with the training, resources, and tools needed to represent SolarWinds solutions effectively. Drive compliance with Partner Program certifications. • Collaborate and align closely with the regional sales, engineering, and global alliance leaders ensuring the identification, pursuit, closure, and tracking of customer opportunities to perpetuate the existing base of organization revenue - engage in customer-specific activities as needed. • Track and report partner performance, pipeline and weekly forecast updates. Ability to report on overall health of the partnership with accurate quarterly forecast and business plan execution. • Plan and execute sales campaigns in conjunction with partner and internal stakeholders building new pipeline and results for each investment. • Co-sell with GSI counterparts facing end users where applicable delivering the SolarWinds value proposition, applying SolarWinds sales methodology, and closing tactics. • Ability to effectively use business tools to successfully and efficiently manage your business such as SFDC, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, Zoom, and Slack. Requirements: • Bahcelor's degree or equivalent experience. • Minimum 5 years of experience as a GSI Channel or Account manager; Preferably with a SaaS/ISV organization. • Strong understanding of enterprise software sales cycles and partner-led GTM models successfully growing revenue-generating partnerships with GSIs • Experience in the Observability Tools Landscape preferred. • Ability to understand and successfully navigate complex GSI relationships. • Experience engaging and influencing C-level executives. • Experience owning, driving and managing partnerships against quarterly targets. • Excellent communicator and active listener with a strong sense of ownership in the work. • Skilled in negotiating contracts and growth plans with current and prospective GSI partners • Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment within a global technology company • Willingness to travel approximately 30-40%. Preferred Experience: • Experience growing partnerships in AMS with Accenture, HCL,TCS, Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro and/or Kyndryl • Background in observability or cybersecurity • MBA or other advanced degree

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds Corporation provides IT infrastructure management software products. The Company offers products that are designed to monitor and manage the performance of servers, networks, databases, applications, and storage from a single web-based dashboard. SolarWinds serves customers worldwide. SolarWinds Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Learn more about SolarWinds
Size
2,199 employees
Market Cap
$1.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$158.4 million
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+8.9%
Revenue
$1 billion
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