Director, Channel and Alliances

We are looking for a highly motivated Director to join our Business Development organization to define and execute the channel strategy across the UK. This role is responsible for supporting Elastic’s efforts to build an elite ecosystem of partners who are highly strategic to the company’s long-term goals.

The Director, Partners and Alliances will build and lead a team to recruit, enable, and support a network of partners in order to drive partner sourced, influenced, and fulfilled revenue and initially personally drive the execution of the strategy within the Hyperscalers. We need someone who has the ability to build a team capable of identifying new partners, solidifying current partner relationships, addressing all of our customer groups (from SMB to Strategic clients including Public Sector) as well as taking personal responsibility for the Hyperscaler partners with support from the EMEA-wide Hyperscaler Partner Managers. We need a strategic thinker who can build a team to deliver a best in class Channel ecosystem.

Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Building a team capable of Identifying, recruiting, enabling and managing partners including Hyperscalars, Regional SIs, VARs, ISV’s and Distribution Organisations to support business goals and to execute partner sales strategies.
• Drive consistent and predictable channel bookings through joint business planning and ongoing channel enablement.
• Work closely with our direct sales team leaders to form a coherent indirect strategy.
• Negotiate and close channel and partnership contracts
• Create and drive overall channel strategy and prioritization plan for coverage area, including the development of an Elastic Stack practice across priority channel partners

What You Bring:

• Energetic, smart, self-directed, and passionate business development and channels professional
• Experience recruiting, enabling, and leading a network of SI and channel partners with direct personal involvement
• Exposure to and expertise in building channel networks from the ground up
• Demonstrated success growing the impact of channel results through increased lead growth or bookings growth
• Experience negotiating channel agreements and designing channel programs
• Understanding of analytics, search, or big data markets / products or ability to learn quickly
• Willing to travel up to 30% of the time

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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