This is a demanding role that requires a project-based, technical and business leadership mindset with the ability to listen to our partners’ functional and business requirements and mapping them into business minded goals wrapped around Gong functionality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a partner recruitment strategy to build the EMEA Gong Partner Network and meet revenue targets
- Provide onboarding, enablement and training to new partners to ensure they are able to position Gong effectively.
- Conduct regular business reviews with partners to track progress, identify areas of opportunities and develop action plans
- Orchestrate internal resources to support growth and overall success for new and existing ecosystem partners
- Develop and execute business plans and joint go-to-market motions with strategic partners, establishing and driving mutual commitments around revenue attainments
- Maintain a clear view of partner business goals and over-deliver on partner-sourced revenue numbers
- Maintain product expertise across the Gong product line
- Collaborate with partners and their customers in understanding their use cases of Gong
- Understand partner’s requirements and communicate the business value of solving problems using Gong’s Revenue Intelligence solution
- Distill and communicate partner needs and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing and Sales
- Identify customer challenges and prescribe partner service offering solutions. Demonstrate ideal customer end state and persuade supporting teams to implement partner solutions in the account
Qualifications:
- Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, coaching and leadership skills
- Experience with GSI’s, Rev Op Agencies preferred
- Strong background in CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc) and/or productivity tools.
- 7+ years of experience and a Partner/Ecosystems Manager in technology sales, business development or software consultancy
- Excellent instincts and ability to interface at a senior level with F1000 customers
- Experience managing partner business by working through pipeline, sales, pilot and deployment cycles
- Strong CRM and business analytics knowledge
- Ability to demo to win and quickly communicate complex ideas around a business case
- Deep passion for technology and a love for working in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous start-up environment
- Experience working in an early-stage partner program is preferred