Partnership Director in India

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role This role is part of our APAC Mid-Market team which will own both named account pursuits and executing programmatic sales via OpenAI partners. You’ll be a key driver of writing the playbook for Mid-Market in APAC as an AI Native Sales team. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role is based in India and can be based out of either Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore. For locations with an office, we operate in a hybrid model of 3 days in the office. In this role, you'll: Manage a portfolio of accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive regional go to market plan. Win lighthouse accounts through outbound sales outreach. Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects. Own a consumption revenue target. Manage consumption revenue forecasts. Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates. Support the development of company culture. We're seeking someone with experience including: 7+ years of direct selling experience in Data and AI or Cloud. Designing and executing complex go to market strategies. Orchestrating programmatic sales motions with partners. Experience operating in fast paced, high growth environments. Working directly with c-level executives. Leading high-visib

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role will be based in Delhi. In this role, you will: Manage a small number of key accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan. Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to successful deployment. Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects. Own a consumption revenue target. Manage consumption revenue forecasts. Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders. Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies. Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering. Support the recruitment and onboarding of other teammates.

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Director, Tax Overview: This role serves as the primary subject-matter expert on employment tax matters, working in close partnership with cross-functional stakeholders and external providers, to execute global employment tax initiatives, translates complex, multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements into sustainable operating models, risk management, and serves as advisor on regulatory developments, and on complex employment tax matters affecting the global workforce across all jurisdictions in which the company operations. Role: • Execute and support global employment tax strategy, balancing compliance, risk mitigation, financial accuracy, operational efficiency, and cost optimization across all jurisdictions • Serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders and business units on employment tax implications relating to workforce strategy, mobility programs, mergers and acquisitions, organizational restructuring, and evolving workforce models • Interpret, and operationalize complex employment tax and social security legislation, in alignment with company policies, internal controls, and governance • Lead tax planning initiatives and provide technical guidance on taxation of compensation and benefits, multi-jurisdictional taxation, recharge treatment and employer reporting and withholding requi

Couchbase, the operational data platform for AI, empowers businesses to succeed by bringing data to life in new ways. Major market-leading companies rely on Couchbase for mission critical operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads. Built to replace legacy infrastructure and fragmented data services, Couchbase empowers enterprises with a unified platform architected for performance, flexibility and global scale. With Couchbase, organizations bring their data to life, launching game‑changing customer experiences, exploring the limitless potential of AI, and seamlessly extending applications from the cloud to the edge and beyond. Couchbase’s AI‑ready technology and enterprise partnership model eliminate complexity and reduce total cost of ownership, enabling teams to stay agile, innovative and secure. Couchbase believes data should never slow you down, but act as the foundation for your next breakthrough. Discover why Couchbase is trusted to help the world’s biggest players scale, move fast and stay resilient, no matter what’s next on their roadmap. Visit couchbase.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. Want to be part of our story? Apply today! AI Platform Engineering Location: Bangalore (Hybrid - in office at least 3 days/week) About the Role We are seeking an experienced and visionary technology leader to lead the development and scaling of our Operational AI platform capabilities. This role will own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of Couchbase AI Cloud Platform capabilities. This is a strategic leadership role at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and AI. You will lead a large, multi-layered engineering organization responsible for delivering The Operational Data Platform for AI, while partnering closely with Product, Design, SRE, and Go-To-Market teams. Your leadership will directly influence company growth, customer adoption, platform reliability, and Couchbase’s competitive pos

Who We Are Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo. The Role The Analytics team is seeking a Director to join and lead the team. The Analytics team is a globally distributed team core to Addepar's transition to next-generation data and analytics with a scalable global operating model. Its mission is to empower analysts, researchers, and internal teams to create and share data and insights - driving data driven decision making at scale. The Director will define and execute the strategic vision for the function, while driving operationalisation, governance, and platform maturity across regions. Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country where this role is based on the first day of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. What You’ll Do Define and execute a unified analytics strategy in partnership with key stakeholders, with a published roadmap reviewed quarterly Serve as a culture carrier and visible leader for the APAC region, bridging local teams with global priorities Lead BI and platform strategy, including persona-driven architecture and enablement paths for power users, consumers, executives, and producers Lead global expansion of the analytics platform - hardening existing regional implementations and validating a repeatable architecture for ne

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. This role can be based in Delhi, Mumbai, or Bangalore. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees In this

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is looking for a highly technical Sr. Manager to lead our India-based Service Desk and IT Automation operations. This is a working-manager role: you'll personally execute technical work — scripting, automation builds, escalated ticket resolution — while also leading a team. If you're looking for a purely strategic or delegation-only leadership role, this isn't it. You'll manage a team spanning Service Desk, Tier 1 SOC support, and IT Automation Engineering, driving the technical maturity of our global support infrastructure through automation, scripting, deep systems integration, and increasingly, AI-augmented workflows. This role reports to the Director of End User Systems, with close, day-to-day partnership across US-based Desktop Support managers. For the right candidate, this role has a clear path to Director as we continue scaling our India GCC — with growth into that level anticipated within 12–18 months. This is also a strong fit for a Director-level leader currently at a SaaS startup who's looking to move into a larger, enterprise SaaS organization — and who is open to a step down in title now in exchange for a step up in scale, platform, and long-term trajectory. You Will IT Automation & Architecture Drive the IT automation function, identifying repetitive Tier 1 tasks and owning their automation end-to-end — from scoping through build, testing, and measurement Evaluate and build AI-augmented automation where it meaningfully reduces toil (e.g. intelligent ticket triage, SOC alert summarisation, AI

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Enterprise Technology Team The Enterprise Technology team builds and delivers the secure, scalable systems that power how our business runs. Our People Technology Team sits at the heart of this work, overseeing the full Hire-to-Retire technical ecosystem—including core applications like Workday, Greenhouse, and Cornerstone—and ensuring these platforms evolve alongside the company's growth. We partner closely with HR, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Business Operations to bring data-driven, compliant, and innovative solutions to life. The Opportunity Reporting to the Director of People Technology, this role will serve as the Product Manager for Okta's People Technology portfolio, focused on Employee Growth & Talent. You will act as the strategic bridge between global People leaders and delivery teams. You will translate strategic product visions into high-velocity execution — shaping the what and why in partnership with Digital Solutions and People leadership, and partnering with the Delivery Lead on the how and when — while navigating complex enterprise workflows across Talent Acquisition (Greenhouse), Learning & Development (Cornerstone), Talent Management (Workday), and AI-driven automation. What You'll Do Product Strategy & Roadmap Leadership: Define the multi-year product vision and strategy for the Growth & Talent domain in close collaboration with functional and technical leadership. Translate that strategy into a priori

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your Opportunity As our Senior Manager, Compliance in Bangalore, you will play a pivotal, highly strategic role in New Relic’s global finance organization. Unlike traditional, siloed compliance roles, this position sits within our uniquely structured Integrated Tax and Compliance team. We believe that high-quality tax filings are entirely dependent on robust, accurate statutory financials. By managing the statutory financial reporting and audit processes end-to-end, our integrated team ensures a seamless, high-integrity data flow directly into our international tax return filings. The Honest Reality & The Partnership: Currently, our global statutory financial preparation and audit process is fragmented, and we are actively working through bottlenecks that impact our filing timelines. To bridge the gap, our Director of Global Tax & Compliance has been personally managing this function day-to-day. Because of this, we aren’t starting from scratch. We have already diagnosed many of the root causes, mapped out where the process breaks down, and formulated clear hypotheses for future improvements. This is not a "maintenance" job, nor is it a solo rescue mission. We are looking for a true strategic collaborator. We need a leader who can partner closely with the Director, stress-test our current ideas, bring their own seasoned perspective to the table, and turn our vision for a world-class in-house compliance function into a reality. Currently managing one direct report and 1–

CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT Job Purpose The Corporate Development team is responsible for driving the company's long-term growth and strategic evolution. As a Corporate Development , you will play a pivotal role in identifying, evaluating, and executing inorganic growth opportunities. This includes mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, strategic alliances, divestitures, and corporate investments. You will act as a key connector between external market opportunities and internal executive leadership. Key Responsibilities 1. Strategy & Market Intelligence Collaborate with senior executives to define and refine the company’s inorganic growth roadmap.Conduct continuous macroeconomic, industry research to identify emerging trends, market disruptions, and potential targets. Tracking market developments, precedent transactions, and comparable companies. Maintain a robust, proactive pipeline of acquisition, investment, and partnership targets. 2. Deal Sourcing & Evaluation Build and maintain relationships with investment bankers, venture capital/private equity firms, and target company management teams. Perform initial screening of inbound and outbound deal opportunities against corporate strategic criteria. Develop high-quality strategic rationale and business cases for presentation to the C-suite and Board of Directors. 3. Due Diligence & Deal Execution Coordinating due diligence processes and managing data rooms (in live deals) Coordinate internal cross-functional teams (Legal, Finance, Tax, HR, Product, Operations) and external advisors during the due diligence process. Lead the project management of the transaction lifecycle from Letter of Intent (LOI) to definitive documentation and closing. 4. Integration & Post-Closing Support Partner with operational teams to design post-merger integration (PMI) playbooks. Ensure that projected financial and operational synergies are tracked and realized post-acquisition Role Requirements & Qualifications Educati

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. About the Role As a Strategic Account Director for the BFSI vertical, you will own Postman's most important accounts — India's largest banks, NBFCs, insurers, and AMCs. This is a high-visibility, senior individual contributor role that sits at the intersection of enterprise sales, executive relationship management, and industry evangelism. You will be the trusted advisor to C-suite and senior platform engineering leaders across BFSI, helping them understand how an API-first strategy — underpinned by Postman — accelerates digital transformation, reduces time-to-market, and builds competitive advantage. You will own the full revenue lifecycle — new logos, multi-year expansions, and renewals — while building long-term strategic partnerships that compound over time. You will also identify and engage key ISVs within the BFSI ecosystem, driving co-sell and joint-influence motions that amplify Postman's reach in the sector. What You'll Do Own and grow a portfolio of named strategic BFSI accounts (private and PSU banks, NBFCs, insurance majors, AMCs, capital markets firms) — responsible for new sales, expansion, upsell, cross-sell, and ren

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works. Partnerships Lead - Instawork Robotics Labs || Bengaluru, India (Extensive Travel) · Field & Growth Operations About IRL Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap” - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more here . Instawork is building the data engine for the future of physical AI. To do that at scale, we need reliable, high-volume access to businesses across India whose skilled manual work becomes the training data for the next generation of robotics. We are looking for a Partnerships Lead to secure that access — both by hunting new opportunities directly and by brokering relationships with the people who already control access to hundreds of businesses: association presidents, lenders, government officials, and enterprise leaders. Your job is to convert both cold outreach and high-trust institutional relationships into onboarding pathways at scale. What You'll Do Broker access at scale. Identify, cultivate, and close relationships with high-leverage intermediaries — presidents of business associations, lenders, banks, politicians, civil servan

About Us: Paytm is India’s leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company and a pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution. Paytm builds technologies that empower small businesses with payments and commerce solutions. Our mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them into the mainstream economy through technology. About the team: Paytm Loyalty & Rewards is a B2B engagement and retention platform that enables enterprises to acquire, engage, and retain customers, partners, and employees through data-driven loyalty programs. The team builds and manages end-to-end solutions including loyalty infrastructure (points, cashback, tiers, gamification), a large rewards marketplace (vouchers, travel, merchandise, experiences), and campaign engines (cashback offers, referrals, scratch cards). It also powers incentive programs for sales teams, dealers, and employees, with seamless digital fulfilment via Paytm Wallet, UPI, and vouchers. Serving brands across FMCG, banking, fintech, telecom, and e-commerce, the team helps drive customer lifetime value, repeat engagement, and measurable business outcomes through scalable, tech-led loyalty solutions. About the Role: We are seeking results-driven and relationship-oriented candidates to drive strategic partnerships in the loyalty and rewards ecosystem. The role involves identifying, negotiating, and onboarding brands, merchants, and corporate partners to expand our loyalty program offerings, enhance member engagement, and drive incremental revenue. Key Responsibilities: Partnership & Acquisition Identify and target potential partners across industries (FMCG, retail, travel, e-commerce, BFSI, hospitality, etc.) for loyalty tie-ups. Pitch the value proposition of our loyalty solutions and negotiate win–win partnership agreements. Build multi-sector partner portfolios to enhance member redemption and earning opportunities. Account Management & Relationship Building Manage key partner accounts to e

About Us – Paytm is India's payment Super App offering consumers and merchants most comprehensive payment services. Pioneer of mobile QR payments revolution in India, today, Paytm is India’s largest payment company by Users, Merchants, Payment Transactions and Revenue. Paytm’s mission is to drive financial inclusion in India and bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy through technology-led financial Services. Paytm enables commerce for small merchants and distributes various financial services offerings to its consumers and merchants in partnership with financial institutions. Paytm has been a pioneer in the merchant space by introducing innovative solutions like QR codes to accept payments and Sound-box to recon payments by voice alerts. We are also distributing loans to these partners 5via our ‘Paytm for Business’ App. Key Responsibilities 🔹 Manage and strengthen strategic partnerships with insurance companies to drive business growth and profitability. 🔹 Lead commercial discussions on commissions, pricing, product offerings, and exclusive partnership opportunities. 🔹 Monitor insurer performance, identify growth opportunities, and drive improvement initiatives. 🔹 Collaborate with insurers on product development, integrations, and go-to-market strategies. 🔹 Partner closely with Product, Technology, Sales, and Marketing teams to execute business objectives. 🔹 Ensure compliance with IRDAI regulations, partnership agreements, and internal governance standards. 🔹 Prepare business reviews and present partnership performance, insights, and recommendations to leadership. Qualifications and Experience: Bachelor/MBA or equivalent qualification from a reputable institution. 2-3 years of experience in insurance partnership management, business development, or product management roles into Health Insurance Domain. Strong negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills. In-depth knowledge of the Indian insurance market and IRDAI regulatory

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. At Okta, we know that forging secure connections between people and technology is no small feat. So we trust each other, we support each other. We’re dedicated, passionate, innovative, and relentless problem solvers. We believe that providing simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere will empower them with the confidence to reach their full potential. Okta is looking for a Regional Alliances Manager with strong deal, strategy and relationship management experience to partner with Okta’s Regional Solution Providers, Distributors and Channel Partners with the aim of extending and enhancing Okta’s channel eco-system in India. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in cyber-security Channel and Partner management along with an understanding of all the elements that are required to enable partners to be successful with the Okta solution. A Regional Alliances Manager at Okta will need to think strategically and analytically about business, product and technical challenges, with the ability to create compelling value propositions