Lead PDM, Core

In this role, you’ll get to:

• Manage 20-30 partner relationships and build a sales pipeline by working with your partners to exceed sales goals
• Develop a trusted-advisor relationship with partners to establish strategic alignment and drive growth
• Understand and align partners' priorities, strategies, and goals with HubSpot’s to build mutually beneficial action plans
• Work with the program, marketing and sales teams on the execution of partner programs, events, sales engagement, building playbooks and collateral to enable partners to sell into customers effectively
• Develop and drive business and technical enablement plans with partners to facilitate the implementation and operations of HubSpot products
• Promote top partners to HubSpot customers and sellers
• Drive promotions, contests and incentives as appropriate
• Gather, organize, and report back partner feedback (both technical and business) to help improve the customer and partner experience
• Be the partner evangelist within the HubSpot sales organization
• Work with marketing and technology departments to execute sales strategy as the firm introduces enhancements to existing solutions and/or releases new products
• Bring your thinking, strategies, and ideas to advance our company’s values, unique culture, and vision for the future

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 5+ years of experience in sales, partner channel development, business development, or alliance management in the technology industry
• 3+ years of experience with technology platforms and solutions with a reasonable level of technical proficiency
• Ideally has experience in the software (SaaS) industry and therefore has a deep understanding of SaaS go-to-market models
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort
• Ability to proactively identify areas in the partner development strategy that require strengthening (i.e. models, processes and tools)
• Ability to identify required resources and gather requirements, drive a sense of common purpose and shared goals/vision, and deliver results as an outcome of ongoing or time-bound work
• Thrives in a fast-paced working environment, can work autonomously and pivot quickly to changing business needs
• Can take an ambiguous problem, make sense of it, and propose a path forward