Partner Sales Manager

Braze Braze · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Partnerships

This role is for a Partner Sales Manager at Braze, a customer engagement platform. The primary focus is on driving commercial outcomes through partnerships with GTM, Delivery, and Tech partners. Responsibilities include building relationships, identifying opportunities for pipeline generation and deal support, developing joint business plans, collaborating with marketing on events, understanding territory accounts, coaching GTM teams on partner engagement, and identifying ecosystem gaps. The ideal candidate has experience in partner management within the technology sector and strong relationship-building skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with our GTM teams - AEs, AMs, BDRs - to identify opportunities to connect partners to support pipeline generation and winning deals with Partners attached
  2. Work with our Customer teams - AMs and CSMs - to identify opportunities for partners to help drive utilisation, growth and reduce churn risk on existing Braze customers. Connecting partners to ensure our customers are fully leveraging Braze and our composable solution
  3. Develop mutually agreed-upon, win-win Joint Business Plans (JBPs) with partners, outlining shared objectives, success measures, stakeholders, methods, and review cadences.
  4. Work closely with marketing to develop an annual Partner Marketing Calendar - and engage partners to participate and sponsor Braze-owned events, Braze x Partner specific events, Industry events and sponsor Partner events.
  5. Possess a strong understanding of team territory, including existing customers, Target A & B accounts, and overlapping tech/services integrations via Crossbeam.

Skills

Required

  • Experience working for a technology vendor in either a partner, vendor, agency or customer role
  • Strong relationship-building skills
  • Ability to influence and ensure GTM teams are staying on top of their accounts and following up
  • Experience engaging senior stakeholders across various organizations about martech architecture, solutions and the benefits of a composable approach
  • Experience working with customer engagement platforms

Nice to have

  • Existing network within the space

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 or more years of experience working for a technology vendor in either a partner, vendor, agency or customer role