Acs Partner Alliance Leader - Japac Lead

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · Sydney, Singapore

This role is responsible for executing Adobe's global partner strategy for professional services across the JAPAC region. It involves managing partner relationships, supporting deal strategies, and ensuring consistent partner engagement to drive bookings and customer value. While the company is in the AI space, this specific role focuses on the business and strategic aspects of partner alliances rather than direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute ACS’ global partner strategy across the full JAPAC region.
  2. Apply global partner frameworks, playbooks, and operating models to regional partner engagement and professional services opportunities.
  3. Manage and strengthen relationships with regional partner alliance leaders, partner account leaders, and senior stakeholders across GSIs, agencies, and technology partners.
  4. Serve as a deal steward for partner-involved professional services opportunities, working closely with JAPAC services sales teams to determine the right partner strategy and engagement model.
  5. Partner closely with services sales organization to support pipeline, account planning, deal strategy, and execution on opportunities involving partners.

Skills

Required

  • Strong experience working with strategic partners, including GSIs, agencies, technology partners, or professional services alliances.
  • Experience in professional services, consulting, services sales, partner strategy, alliances, or a related field.
  • Ability to operate across sales, delivery, partner, and account teams in a matrixed organization.
  • Strong relationship-building skills with both internal stakeholders and external partner leaders.
  • Commercial mindset with the ability to connect partner strategy to pipeline, bookings, delivery outcomes, and customer value.
  • Ability to support deal-level strategy and help determine the right partner motion for complex customer opportunities.
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity and creating structure across emerging partner motions and operating models.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate strategy into practical field execution.
  • Ability to bring regional insights and field learnings back into global strategy, frameworks, and playbook development.
  • Experience working across JAPAC markets.

What the JD emphasized

  • partner strategy execution
  • partner-involved professional services opportunities
  • partner strategy
  • partner engagement model
  • partner sales management
  • partner lifecycle
  • partner goals
  • partner performance
  • partner strategy leadership
  • partner engagement