Senior Manager Global Alliances

Rubrik Rubrik · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Sales

This role is for a Senior Manager, Global Alliances at Rubrik, a company focused on data security and AI operations. The role involves driving strategic industry partnerships, accelerating sales performance through cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Engineering, and Marketing, and growing partner-led revenue. The ideal candidate will have domain knowledge in Data Management, Data Protection, and Storage markets, with experience in alliance programs and sales execution. While the company mentions AI transformation and Rubrik Agent Cloud, the core responsibilities of this specific role are focused on alliance management and sales enablement, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive Strategic Growth: Execute on the alliance strategy by supporting partner planning, sales acceleration, and pipeline generation initiatives.
  2. Grow Partner-Led Revenue: Lead efforts to increase "Partner Initiated Deals" by positioning Rubrik's technologies as a "must-have" within our global partner ecosystem.
  3. Coordinate Global Mappings: Serve as a key connector, facilitating account mappings and qualification meetings that convert target accounts into successful POCs and closed deals.
  4. Enable the Ecosystem: Deliver enablement and training sessions to partner SEs and sales teams, building their ability to independently represent and sell Rubrik solutions.
  5. Represent Rubrik: Present Rubrik's vision at partner events and meetings, engaging both partner stakeholders and end-customers.

Skills

Required

  • Domain Knowledge in Data Management, Data Protection, and Storage markets
  • Experience selling competitive Backup and Recovery solutions
  • Track record of supporting pipeline generation and executing alliance programs within partner ecosystems
  • Demonstrated ability to identify, initiate, and support deal closure in partnership with account teams
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Ability to engage executive stakeholders and partner audiences
  • Established network within the alliance and channel partner landscape

Nice to have

  • Prior experience executing joint GTM strategies with Tier-1 vendors such as Pure Storage or Cisco
  • Experience supporting quarterly/yearly sales planning, co-marketing activities, and joint interlocks across enterprise accounts
  • Proficiency in forecasting, reporting metrics, and managing data-driven sales activities

What the JD emphasized

  • alliance strategy
  • partner planning
  • sales acceleration
  • pipeline generation
  • Partner Initiated Deals
  • global partner ecosystem
  • account mappings
  • qualification meetings
  • enablement and training sessions
  • partner SEs and sales teams
  • Rubrik's vision
  • partner events and meetings
  • partner stakeholders
  • end-customers
  • Data Management
  • Data Protection
  • Storage markets
  • selling competitive Backup and Recovery solutions
  • alliance programs
  • partner ecosystems
  • Sales Execution
  • deal closure
  • account teams
  • presentation skills
  • executive stakeholders
  • partner audiences
  • Relationship Building
  • alliance and channel partner landscape