Senior Director, GSI Alliances, APAC

Our Sales team is looking for a Senior Director for the global system integrator (GSI) APAC business to join us in either Sydney, Melbourne, or Singapore.

In this role, you will establish the strategy to further develop the GSI program and important partnerships across APAC. You'll work with our teams in the APAC markets to adapt that strategy to each country and achieve sales goals. You'll work closely with account managers in the region, the global partner team and the APAC marketing, business development, and services teams. Reporting to the VP of Partners for APJ, you will establish and nurture relationships between internal and external teams, helping to guide the success of the partnership for both companies.

The impact you will have:

• Further develop the GSI strategy and business plan including sales, marketing, and go-to-market strategies, programs, and offering
• Develop executive relationships with leaders of 3+ GSI partners; manage executive meeting frequency, i.e., quarterly business reviews (QBRs)
• Represent Databricks and GSI alliances as a spokesperson, subject matter expert, and presenter at trade events
• Serve as a point of escalation to help resolve field conflicts using a network of key contacts within both companies as well as knowledge of mutual businesses
• Obtain critical consensus for Databricks by positioning, educating, and marketing our value proposition across GSI partnerships with both traditional solutions as well as emerging technologies for selected GSI platforms and offerings
• Lead the development and communication of the partnership performance analysis, including financial performance, agreed metrics, and related insights
• Work closely with in-country sales teams to guide collaboration and engagements with global SI teams
• Attain the sales objectives set for the GSI ecosystem

What we look for:

• 10+ years of sales or business development experience with an outstanding record of success
• 5+ years of experience serving in a senior-level partner or GSI sales-based role
• Excellence in forecast management with experience managing an accurate forecast in a regional capacity
• Demonstrated capability in strategic planning and implementation of partner programs
• Channel sales management experience, including managing global alliance partners, ideally GSIs
• Experience building virtual teams to achieve shared objectives
• Record selling SaaS technology platforms to APAC regional partners
• Experience serving in partner ecosystem leadership roles within APAC
• Extensive knowledge of Databricks partner program and ecosystem
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities in a cross-functional environment

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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