At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Strategic Channel Manager focusing on our VARs partnerships for the EMEA region, you’ll manage a book of Vanta’s strategic channel partnerships, focused on building and scaling our business with major resellers in the security and compliance ecosystem. This role sits within Vanta’s Partnerships team, where you will have a direct role in bringing Vanta’s vision of securing every technology company. You will help us ensure that our partners always receive quality guidance and enablement as they go-to-market with Vanta. What you’ll do as a Senior Strategic Channel Manager at Vanta: Develop strong executive relationships across key VAR partners, acting as a strategic thought partner. Build direct relationships with individual VAR sellers to drive rep-level engagement, education, and deal collaboration. Execute Vanta’s go-to-market and enablement playbooks with strategic resellers to ensure consistent pipeline generation and resale execution. Launch and execute joint account mapping strategies to identify overlaps and drive prioritized co-selling motions with Vanta AEs and SDRs. Facilitate co-selling between your partners and our AE team to drive net-new ARR. Enable and train key team members on how working with Vanta will benefit them as a partner Proactively share partner insights, GTM feedback, and competitive intel to help evolve Vanta’s channel strategy. Manage your book effectively, providing regular updates on pipeline generation progress and pacing. How to be successful in this role: 6+ years of experience in channel sales, strategic partnerships, or business development Proven success working for or with large value-ad
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Our Strategic Account Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll be focused on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are: Someone with 5+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market and enterprise) Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of 1M+ and operated with an average deal size of $100k+ Able to demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred) Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies with the ability to win new logos Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business needs Datad
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Our Strategic Account Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll be focused on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are: Someone with 5+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market and enterprise) Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of 1M+ and operated with an average deal size of $100k+ Able to demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred) Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies with the ability to win new logos Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business need
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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. Are you ready to redefine the future of digital identity in the AI era? Okta’s UKI Strategic Account Executive Sales Team is hiring! Our Strategic Account Executives (SAE) are the visionary leaders who orchestrate and drive sales engagements for our most critical and prestigious UKI customers. In an era where Artificial Intelligence is transforming how enterprises operate, identity has become the new security perimeter. As an SAE, you won't just be selling software—you will act as a trusted, long-term advisor helping the C-suite safely navigate the AI revolution. You will build first-class Account Plans that map directly to your customers' overarching business strategies, digital transformation initiatives, and AI adoption plans. By championing value-based selling, you will translate complex technical capabilities into undeniable business outcomes, showing how secure identity is the ultimate enabler of modern enterprise innovation and ROI. You will collaboratively plan and orchestrate the execution of aligned account strategies, ensuring robust opportunity generation, deep relationship alignment, and flawless account governance. Expect to lead from the front: presenting Okta’s transformational proposals, negotiating high-stakes terms, and bringing down complex, multi-layered, seven-figure deals that deliver massive win-win scenarios for both the customer and Okta. Beyond managing existing relationships, you will hunt for new business leads that fit our idea
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. What You'll Do Support the delivery of strategic events across EMEA, including executive programmes, conferences, workshops, and Snowflake owned events. Assist with event logistics, including venue research, supplier coordination, delegate management, registration tracking, catering, signage, branded materials, shipping, run-of-show documents, and on-site support. Help coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, including sales, marketing, communications, partner teams, executives, customer success, agencies, vendors, and external speakers. Contribute to event project plans, timelines, trackers, briefing documents, and status updates to ensure teams remain aligned and deadlines are met. Support attendee experience from invitation through to post-event follow-up, helping ensure every touchpoint feels polished, relevant, and on-brand. Help maintain event data and reporting, including registration lists, attendance tracking, feedback summaries, lead capture, budget updates, and post-event performance analysis. Conduct research into venues, competitors, industry trends, audience segments, event formats, and best practices to help the team continuously improve. Support content and communications for events, including agenda drafts, speaker bios, event descriptions, briefing notes,
About The Role The Director, Strategic Alliances, EMEA will be responsible for defining and executing Diligent's partnerships strategy across the EMEA region as a senior individual contributor. This role will focus on identifying, structuring, and closing high-impact strategic partner-led deals that accelerate customer acquisition, expand Diligent's enterprise footprint, and drive revenue growth through partner resell and co-sell motions — with a particular focus on advisory and consulting firms (Big 4 and Tier 2) and large resellers/channel partners. This senior leader will develop deep insight into regional market dynamics and build the foundational partner ecosystem across advisory/consulting firms, resellers, and channel partners at the pace needed to match Diligent's rapid growth. This is fundamentally a builder's role — the person in this seat will need to build and own the region and its relationships largely from the ground up. This role requires close collaboration with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams. Success will be measured by partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue, new logo acquisition, expansion of product usage through partners, and the establishment of scalable partnership models that can be operationalized as the business grows. Responsibilities Partnership Strategy & Execution Execute the EMEA partner strategy in alignment with Diligent's global objectives and regional go-to-market plans. Identify, prioritize, and secure strategic partnerships across advisory/consulting firms (Big 4 and Tier 2) Develop partner value propositions, commercial frameworks, and engagement models tailored to EMEA market needs. Establish repeatable partnership structures, playbooks, and success metrics that can scale over time as the region and partner base grow. Channel & Revenue Impact Drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced p
We’re looking for an Account Intelligence & Outbound Specialist to help us create meaningful outbound engagement and pipeline opportunities across priority global strategic accounts. You’ll use Talkwalker insights, market signals, account research and hands-on outbound to build commercially relevant, account specific-outbound that creates movement in the accounts that matter most by identifying the right people, moments and messages to activate complex enterprise accounts working alongside two Global Strategic Account Managers. You will be reporting to the Director, Outbound Strategy. Please note that the role may include 10% of travel to events; other Hootsuite offices, etc. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Conduct deep research across priority global strategic accounts to understand their business context, market environment, brand activity, audience sentiment, competitive landscape and relevant commercial signals. Leverage Talkwalker insights, social listening, news, campaign activity, reputation signals and account history to identify timely and relevant reasons to engage prospective customers. Identify and map complex buying groups, decision-makers, influencers and stakeholders across global strategic accounts, including marketing, communications, social media, insights, customer care, digital, analytics, procurement, legal, security, Data Privacy, regional teams and executive leadership. Design and execute insight-led, account-specific outbound strategies across email, phone, LinkedIn and other relevant channels, using commercial relevance rather than generic product messaging. Develop high-value account intelligence assets including signal summaries, one-page account memos, Talkwalker insight snapshots, competitor views, pre-mortems, executive questions and buying-group maps to support strategic account activation. Act as a strategic partner to Global Strategic & Principal Account Executives by jointly prioritizing accounts, align on account strategy, and deter
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact. Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally. About the Role We are hiring a Senior Specialist Seller to join the Strategic Pursuits team and lead priority opportunities generated through the joint AWS and OpenAI co-sell motion. You will partner closely with Account Directors, AWS field teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify, shape, advance, and close high-value strategic enterprise engagements. This role is ideal for a senior seller with deep experience in enterprise technology, AI, cloud, or complex transformation sales motions. You should be comfortable operating in executive-facing environments, aligning multiple stakeholders, and turning customer priorities into commercially compelling and technically credible opportunities. This role is based in London or Munich. We operate on a hybrid model of 3 days per week in office and offer relocation support. In this role, you will: Lead commercial execution of priority AWS/OpenAI co-sell opportunities across strategic enterprise accounts. Identify and qualify high-potential opportunities focused on GenAI adoption, frontier platform use cases, and enterprise-wide transformation. Partner with AWS and OpenAI field teams to align account strategy, messaging, stakeholder mapping, and execution plans. Develop customer-facing value propositions that connect OpenAI capabilities with business priorities and AWS infrastructure strategies. Drive executive-level engagement including customer me
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. We are seeking a Senior Field Marketing Manager to lead enterprise-focused strategy and demand orchestration for our EMEA Sales organisation. In this role, you are a strategic partner to sales leadership and a key architect of Smartsheet’s field marketing engine. You are accountable for driving pipeline velocity, defining investment strategy, and establishing the operational rigor required to win in complex enterprise accounts. This is a role for a seasoned field marketing leader who thrives in evolving environments. You will look beyond individual tactics to build scalable marketing engagement plans that can be leveraged across the organization, ensuring Smartsheet maintains a world-class presence that resonates with sophisticated buying committees and drives measurable revenue impact. What You’ll Do Drive Segment Pipeline & Engagement: Achieve account and segment pipeline and engagement goals through targeted marketing strategies and tactics tailored to the high-priority sales segment you support. Own Segment Strategy: Align marketing investment directly to enterprise revenue targets, pipeline gaps, and regional sales priorities for your segment. Deliver Regional Event Excellence: Align and collaborate with other marketing teams such as Customer marketing, Demand events, Growth marketing, Sales development and others to create and deliver regional events and programs that meet regional pipeline, awareness, and customer cross-sell and upsell objectives. Orchestrate Sales Alignment: Establish and lead regular b
Our Channels & Alliances Team’s charter builds and activates a strategic, differentiated and high-impact partner ecosystem for our best-of-breed multi-cloud monitoring product, one partner at a time. As a Senior Partner Manager, you will recruit and develop channel partners that drive new customer adoption and revenue, including Regional and Global Systems Integrators, Managed Service Providers, and Value Added Resellers. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Identify and recruit new strategic channel partners to drive revenue growth Enable and activate existing partners through training, planning and joint selling activities Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue Who You Are: Experienced in 7+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization Proven in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships Able to quickly comprehend technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing Proficiency in managing premier Cloud MSP partners will be advantageous Willing to travel 20-30% of the time Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, w
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Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll be focused on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are: Someone with 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or enterprise) Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of 1M+ and operated with an average deal size of $100k+ Able to demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred) Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies with the ability to win new logos Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business
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Our Enterprise Sales Executives target and close new business with Datadog’s largest, most strategic customers and prospects. In this role you’ll be focused on uncovering the pain points organizations face as they operate in or migrate to a cloud environment at scale as well as delivering the appropriate Datadog solution. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Prospect into large Fortune 1000 companies while running an efficient sales process Maintain, build and own specific relationship maps for your territory including existing relationships and aspirational contacts Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business Negotiate favorable pricing and business terms with large commercial enterprises by selling value and ROI Handle existing customer expectations while expanding reach and depth into assigned territory Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution Have intuitive sense of necessary steps to close business and gain customer validation Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities Ensure high forecasting accuracy and consistency Who You Are: Someone with 3+ years closing experience (mix of field selling within mid-market or enterprise) Driven and have met/exceeded direct sales goals of 1M+ and operated with an average deal size of $100k+ Able to demonstrate methodology to prospect and build pipeline on your own Experienced in working for an innovative tech company (SaaS, IT infrastructure or similar preferred) Experienced in selling into large Fortune 1000 companies with the ability to win new logos Role requires regular travel to client sites, within your area and other regions, using various modes of transportation (car, train, air), depending on business
As a Senior Partner Sales Manager for MSP/MSSP’s, you will own the partner development opportunities with key Sumo Logic Service Providers. You will be a strategic thinker with a focus on driving revenue (“sell with” and “sell through”) and have a “problem-solving” mindset. You will be responsible for the overall success of the Partnership including enablement, GTM initiatives, and sales opportunities. You will collaborate closely with our Senior PSM, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management teams. Responsibilities Focused on enabling partners to drive utilization of the Sumo platform within a Service Provider (SP) together with the assigned Distribution partner. Provide on-going cross functional support to increase revenues and minimize churn. Liaise with Sumo Marketing to drive pipeline generation together with the Distribution partner through the SP, resulting in end-customer acquisition and expansion.. Drive adoption of Sumo programs for SPs within assigned territory / segment Be a conduit for SPs and Sumo’s end-user sales team where necessary to drive end-customer wins together with the SP. Lead the cross-functional relationship with assigned Distribution partner to ensure effective enablement, co-marketing, pipeline generation, and increased ARR Performance Metrics Weekly forecast of KPIs and activities that drive the success of your business Enablement and pipeline generation initiatives ARR growth and retention of assigned SPs Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with Distribution partner and select SPs Required Qualifications and Skills 10+ years of experience in an Account Executive, or Channel Partner role where you have exceeded your sales plan each year and document the success Understanding of cyber security landscape, cloud based solutions, and the power of SaaS Ability to travel up to 50% of the time in the UK&I & Nordics Desirable Skills Creative thinking, you look for new opportunities and ways to increase value of partnerships A ch
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: *Please note this role is a 1 year fixed term contract* The Cyber Risk and Compliance team ensures that WPP Media are adhering to internal policies and procedures so that WPP Media meets regulatory, client and external audit requirements. The role is pivotal to embed robust Data & Technology controls, driving compliance with our policies, and ensuring audit readiness for obligations such as SOX 404 IO. As a key member of the Media compliance team, you will deliver control assurance and actively coach project teams, while also playing a strategic role in shaping the group’s compliance and controls posture to be more consistent, standardised, and repeatable. You will work closely with colleagues in Financial Risk and Control to ensure IT controls are fully aligned and integrated with financial controls. This role ensures project and delivery teams are equipped to demonstrate control performance clearly and consistently. The focus is on guiding teams to meet their obligations and targeting assurance activity where it adds the greatest value. What you'll be doing: Be a key liaison wi
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. About Data & Technology Solutions WPP’s Data & Technology Solutions is the WPP’s unified global data products and technology team. We work with our agencies and clients to build data-driven solutions and technology product to power marketing transformation. WPP Open is our AI platform for marketing, it connects marketing professionals, data, tools and AI in a single place. WPP Open is the simplest, safest and fastest way to realize the benefits of scaled AI – delivering better-informed creative ideas faster, at scale and at lower cost. We’re endlessly curious and our team of thinkers, builders, creators and problem solvers are over 2,000 strong, across 20 markets around the world. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are seeking a strategic and commercially driven leader to define and execute WPP’s data partnership strategy within EMEA. This role will be critical in sourcing, integrating, and scaling data partnerships to support local market growth whi
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