Global Alliances Director

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Sales

This role is a Global Alliances Director responsible for strategic industry partnerships, driving integration with key alliance partners, and generating pipeline. The role involves high-level partner planning, sales acceleration, and increasing partner-initiated deals. It also includes empowering partner sales teams through enablement and training, hosting events, and influencing product roadmaps. While the company mentions AI and AI agent deployments, this specific role focuses on the go-to-market strategy and sales of the overall platform, not the direct development or research of AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the blueprint for alliance success by driving high-level partner planning, sales acceleration, and massive pipeline generation.
  2. Lead the charge in increasing "Partner Initiated Deals" by positioning Rubrik’s cutting-edge technologies as a "must-have" for our global partners.
  3. Act as the ultimate connector, arranging high-stakes account mappings and qualification meetings that convert target accounts into successful POCs and closed deals.
  4. Deliver high-energy enablement and training sessions to partner SEs and sales teams, turning them into a self-sufficient, formidable extension of the Rubrik sales force.
  5. Showcase your influence by hosting major events and presenting Rubrik’s vision to large audiences of partners and end-customers.

Skills

Required

  • Deep knowledge of the Data Management, Data Protection, and Storage markets
  • proven ability to sell competitive Backup and Recovery solutions
  • documented track record of driving pipeline generation at scale
  • executing complex alliance programs across global partner ecosystems
  • Demonstrated ability to identify, initiate, and close deals in lockstep with account teams
  • Exceptional presentation skills
  • confidence to command a room
  • strong existing reputation and network within the key alliance and channel partner landscape

Nice to have

  • Previous experience executing joint GTM strategies with Tier-1 vendors such as Pure Storage or Cisco
  • Experience in quarterly/yearly sales planning, implementing co-marketing activities, and driving joint interlocks across enterprise target accounts
  • Strong proficiency in forecasting, reporting complex metrics, and managing data-driven sales activities

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic architect of Rubrik’s most critical industry partnerships
  • strategic power-seat
  • influencing the product roadmap
  • Data Security platform
  • world-class GTM organization