Cloud Alliances Business Development Lead

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring for our Cloud Alliances Business Development Lead to coordinate our ‘go-to-market’ with tier 1 Cloud Partners. We develop joint product roadmaps, drive delivery, and formulate go-to-market plans, content and processes, enabling differentiated offerings and robust product life-cycle support anchored to ...

The successful candidate is someone who is passionate about tech and driving revenue growth through collaboration. If you are data-driven and skilled at navigating complex new technical challenges, learn quickly, and ready to architect strategies across global teams, this challenging role is for you.

Collaborating with product, engineering, alliance and marketing teams at a cloud partner to align on open-source strategies.
Capturing partner requirements, evaluating gaps, and identifying Canonical opportunities.
Coordinating with marketing and product teams on messaging, content creation, and launch plans.
Creating partner- and customer-facing materials like reference architectures, joint blueprints, webinars, presentations, videos, and white papers.
Driving Ubuntu adoption within targeted alliance accounts, advocating its benefits to stakeholders and working with partners on enablement training for their development, delivery, support and commercial teams.
Influencing Cloud customers to build with Canonical technology.
Up to 25% travel, including internationally, for internal conferences and to drive partnerships in person.

Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path.
Bachelor's degree in science, technology and/or engineering.
Experience in software development and system architecture.
Customer-facing experience in software engineering, product management, business development, technology strategy or similar functions.
Excellent communication skills across all levels of stakeholders - individual contributors to the C-suite; ability to grasp complex material and synthesize key points.
Ability to think and work at both strategic and tactical levels.
Disciplined and self motivated for a remote-first workplace environment.
Experience with open source software and open source business models.
Team leadership, product management or program management experience.
Understanding of marketing and go-to-market strategy.
Sector-specific experience in finance, telecommunications, automotive, or public sectors.
Working knowledge of independent hardware and software vendor go-to-market motions.
Post-graduate degree in science, technology or engineering field.