Gsi & Consultancies, Partner Lead

Vercel Vercel · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Partnerships

This role is focused on building and managing strategic alliances with Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) to drive growth for Vercel's web development platform. The responsibilities include developing go-to-market strategies, enabling partners, driving pipeline, and collaborating with internal teams. While the company mentions AI-native web and AI development trends, the core function of this role is partner management and business development, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and expand strategic relationships with top-tier GSIsand SIs, such as Accenture, Capgemini, and Slalom to drive joint business growth. Accelerate with cloud partners to achieve joint business outcomes.
  2. Co-develop and execute go-to-market plans with GSI/SI partners including joint solution offerings, industry-specific use cases, and field engagement strategies.
  3. Design and deliver enablement programs, in collaboration with the Education team, to educate GSI/SI partners on our digital web development platform, Ecommerce capabilities, and value propositions.
  4. Drive pipeline generation through GSI/SI channels by aligning with sales teams and executing joint account strategies.
  5. Cultivate strong executive relationships with key stakeholders within GSI/SI organizations to influence partner priorities and investments.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in strategic alliances, partner management, or business development within the software/SaaS industry.
  • Existing relationships with key GSI/SI organizations, including Accenture, Capgemini, Slalom and cloud providers (AWS as a key focus)
  • Have strong business-level knowledge of the SaaS, headless, MACH architecture landscape
  • Experienced in building GSIs/SI partner channel from the ground up
  • A track record of creating and executing successful partner/alliance strategies and plans, including expanding practices within a SI/GSI and exceeding both referral and bookings targets
  • Strong understanding of Ecommerce platforms, digital transformation, and web development technologies
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Nice to have

  • A collaborative team spirit, actively contributing to collective success

What the JD emphasized

  • Existing relationships with key GSI/SI organizations, including Accenture, Capgemini, Slalom and cloud providers (AWS as a key focus)
  • Experienced in building GSIs/SI partner channel from the ground up
  • A track record of creating and executing successful partner/alliance strategies and plans, including expanding practices within a SI/GSI and exceeding both referral and bookings targets