GSI Alliance Sales Director

San Antonio, TX, United States

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Job Summary:

Global System Integrators (GSI) play a crucial role in Canonical growth plans in the coming 3 years.

Reporting to the VP Global Alliances and Channels, the GSI Alliance Director will be responsible for helping partners to thrive and grow their business with Canonical solutions and services.

Our Alliance Director will work closely with Canonical GSI partners throughout their sales cycles and across their sales organizations to facilitate ubuntu based solutions and opportunities, as well as help GSI build long term digital transformation platforms with ubuntu stacks and services.

Our GSI Sales Director is responsible for building trusted relationships with partners, increase Canonical market share and attach rate, evangelize about the partnership and lead all business interactions from engineers to CxO level. The GSI Sales Director will own the strategy, the sell-to, sell-through and sell-with motions with the GSI and will animate many customer workshops, sales event, public presentations and executive engagements.

As a GSI Alliance Sales Director you will:

Build strategic relationships with partners at levels, and stickiness with Ubuntu technology

Deep understanding of Linux and cloud software ecosystem, and opensource selling models

Negotiate contracts and commercial business terms

Deep understanding of partner organizations and sales models, in particular with Global System Integrators

Work closely with marketing, sales engineering and product management to deliver on targets, objectives and provide a voice of the partner

Lead executive interlocks between partners and Canonical leadership team

Ability to travel - sometimes internationally - up to 40% of the time

The successful GSI Alliance Sales Director will have :

Extensive experience in alliance or indirect sales management roles

Extensive experience with OpenStack, virtualization, containers and other Cloud technologies.

Ability to capture customer requirements, evaluate gaps, identify and create opportunities

Passionate about Ubuntu products and mission

Comfortable in fast-paced and high pressure environments with ambitious achievement goals

Excellent communication and presentation skills

What Canonical Offers:

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Annual Compensation Review

Recognition Rewards

Priority Pass for travel

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