Job Description
Senior Partnership Account Manager
Collibra is looking for a Senior Partner Account Manager to lead and grow our partner-driven business. You will identify key growth areas and ensure seamless execution by aligning with regional Field Sales teams. This cross-functional role requires close collaboration with our Marketing, Engineering, and Product teams to develop a world-class partner ecosystem.
This is a hybrid role based in our London office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.
Senior Partner Account Managers at Collibra are responsible for
- Strategic relationship management: cultivating a high-performing partner ecosystem; driving initiatives that accelerate new business acquisition, expansion, and customer retention.
- Partner advocacy & enablement: serving as the primary lead for GSIs, SIs, AI/Tech Partners; prioritizing territory coverage and elevating technical proficiency across the partner network.
- Go-to-market orchestration: leading joint account mapping, strategic planning, and QBRs to align partner capabilities with Collibra’s regional sales targets.
- Pipeline intelligence: driving rigorous joint pipeline reviews and forecasting to ensure predictable growth and market penetration.
- Cross-functional execution: collaborating on high-impact marketing activities and roadshows.
- Regional presence: traveling within the region to cement partner loyalty, with occasional international travel for global Collibra summits.
You have
- 7+ years of software industry experience with a demonstrated ability to recruit, onboard, and scale high-performing partner ecosystems.
- A strong track record in partner-led sales and enablement; prior experience in direct solution sales or consulting is highly valued.
- Expertise in SaaS, specifically within Data Governance, AI Governance, Data Management, Analytics, or BI. You understand the “data-first” landscape.
- An innate ability to build influential relationships, from cultivating existing alliances to identifying and winning new strategic partners.
- Experience driving joint marketing initiatives and supporting complex sales cycles through partner channels.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or business-related field.
You are
- Able to articulate complex value propositions to both technical and non-technical audiences, with the gravitas to influence executive stakeholders internally and externally.
- Naturally collaborative and able to navigate a matrixed organization, building bridges across Marketing, Engineering, and Sales to achieve shared goals.
- Comfortable pivoting between diverse topics and stakeholders, maintaining high engagement whether you are in a partner QBR or an internal product deep-dive.
- Deeply curious about the evolving data landscape and committed to helping global enterprises unlock the strategic value of their data.
- You understand the critical role Data Governance, AI Governance and Data Management play in the success of large-scale, modern organizations.
Reporting to Collibra’s Global Alliances Lead, measures of success are
- Within your first month, you will be engaging with every partner in your region and understanding our joint value proposition with them.
- Within your third month, you will be connecting partners to the field sales team to support Collibra customers and prospects and increase the volume and velocity of partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities.
- Within your sixth month, you will be managing the region autonomously and identifying and prioritizing regional partner initiatives that align with Collibra’s market strategy: increase in new business acquisition, account expansion, and partner-led customer retention.
Benefits at Collibra
Collibra recognizes and values that everyone has different needs, interests, and life goals. We built our benefits program with flexibility in mind to support you and your loved ones through a diverse range of circumstances and life events. These flexible offerings sit on a foundation of competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. Learn more about Collibra’s benefits.
We create inclusion and belonging through how we onboard, meet, connect, engage, and communicate. Learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion at Collibra.
At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.
With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. If you have a need that requires accommodation, let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
