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IHV Alliance Director

Home based - Americas, EMEA

Hardware brands - Dell, HPE, IBM, Lenovo, Cisco, Ericsson and many more - are major partners for Canonical. These companies often build software-defined solutions which they take to market and Ubuntu is a key ingredient in cloud-native and edge or IoT solutions. More and more of those solutions depend on open source. Canonical Ubuntu is the best platform for rapid open source innovation.

The IHV Alliance Sales Senior Director is responsible for IHV partner success - we want them to thrive and grow their business with Canonical software, solutions and services. This is a leadership and management role, responsible for a team who cover all IHV Alliances worldwide.

Reporting to the VP Global Alliances & Channels, our IHV Alliance Senior Director will work closely with strategic partners across their complex organizations to engage with their innovation teams and ensure that they consider and integrate Ubuntu stacks and solutions. For example, private clouds, container solutions, and vertical solutions for industries like telco and automotive, are increasingly built on open source and Ubuntu. We are the challenger platform, but we are growing quickly in the industry.

The Director is responsible to build trusted relationships with IHV partners, increase Canonical market share and attach rate, evangelize the partnership and lead all business interactions from engineer to CxO. They will often run customer workshops focused on particular initiatives at that customer, attend sales events, give public presentations and lead executive engagements.

As an IHV Alliance Business Development Director you will:

Build strategic relationships with IHV partners at levels
Grow their awareness of open source capabilities on Canonical Ubuntu
Demonstrate a deep understanding of the Linux and cloud software ecosystem
Negotiate contracts and commercial business terms
Demonstrate a deep understanding of large and complex organizations
Lead partnerships in APAC with companies like Lenovo, Huawei, Quanta, Fujitsu, Inspur, H3C, NEC, Asus etc.
Lead partnerships in EMEA with companies like Ericsson, Nokia, Bull, Siemens
Lead partnerships in the Americas with companies like Dell, HPE, IBM, Supermicro
Work closely with marketing, sales engineering and product management
Deliver on targets, objectives and provide a voice of the partner
Lead executive interlocks between IHV and Canonical leadership
Travel regularly - sometimes internationally - to drive partnerships in person

Valued skills and experience

Experience in alliance or indirect sales management roles
Autonomous, disciplined, hands-on, get-it-done mentality
Ability to capture customer requirements, evaluate gaps, identify and create opportunities
Passionate about Ubuntu products and mission
Comfortable in fast-paced and high pressure environments with measurable goals
Experience with Linux, virtualization, containers, and other cloud technologies.
Excellent communication and presentation skills

What Canonical offers

Personal learning and development budget
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual leave
Priority Pass for travel

Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform.Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

We are proud to foster a workplace free of discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

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IHV Alliance Director

Home based - Americas, EMEA

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