Channel Account Manager - ShareGate

AKQA Leap; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 105,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LTIP program

RRSP + Family health insurance + telem

annual wellness budget

Flexible vacation policy

Remote work with Montreal office

In-person gathering twice a year

Claude access

Job summary

Workleap in Montreal is seeking a Channel Account Manager to own Premier and Elite partner growth across North America. This is a sales-first role with a hunter mindset, targeting revenue alongside partners rather than simply managing accounts.

You'll build growth plans, enable partners with training, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to unlock new renewal and migration opportunities, using AI daily to accelerate deals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of channel sales experience in North America with quota attainment.
• Experience managing Premier/Elite partners and building partner business plans.
• Sales-first hunter mindset with ability to own pipeline and drive revenue.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills with executives and sales teams.
• Solid understanding of the IT channel ecosystem (distributors, resellers, services).
• Daily familiarity with AI tools (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) for research and forecasting.
• Bonus: existing relationships with Microsoft 365 partners.

Responsibilities

• Drive partner-led revenue growth by owning your number and forecasting accurately.
• Own Premier and Elite partners with growth plans and success metrics.
• Evolve partner relationships from product-centric to strategic across multiple levels.
• Provide sales training and coordinate with enablement teams to accelerate deals.
• Uncover larger migration opportunities and drive adoption of new partner programs.
• Use AI daily for account research, planning, and communications to move deals forward.

Skills

Channel sales experience

Premier/Elite partner management

Hunter mindset

Strong communication

IT channel ecosystem knowledge

AI tools proficiency

M365 partner relationships

Tools

Claude

Copilot

ChatGPT

Job description

Workleap is a Montreal-based tech company, founded in 2006. We're builders at heart, we make simple products that actually matter to the people who use them. We have two product lines: Workleap Agent , our newest solution built to make every manager more effective, and ShareGate , the world's leading solution for Microsoft 365 migration and governance. More than 15,000 companies worldwide trust us to do exactly that. We're intentional about who joins us. If you're the kind of person who gets excited by a hard problem and wants to help shape what comes next, there's a place for you here.

Your role

ShareGate is a trusted favourite with partners who run Microsoft 365 migrations, and we're now taking those relationships from product-centric to strategic. As Channel Account Manager, you'll own a defined book of Premier and Elite partners across North America and be the strategic owner of their growth with ShareGate. This is a sales-first role: we're looking for someone with a hunter mindset who goes after revenue alongside partners, not someone who simply maintains accounts.

Your impact:

• Drive partner-led revenue growth by owning your number, keeping pipeline coverage strong, and forecasting accurately, so ShareGate hits (and beats) its channel targets quarter after quarter.
• Own your book of Premier and Elite partners by building a growth plan for each one (goals, joint actions, success metrics), so top performers scale, high-potential partners take off, and underperforming partners become growth accounts.
• Evolve partner relationships from product-centric to strategic by building multi-level connections (sales, technical, leadership) and becoming your partners' ShareGate Sherpa, so ShareGate is the vendor they choose to grow their business with.
• Equip partners to sell more and close faster by running sales training and technical sessions with the enablement team, bringing in the right internal resources (technical, RevOps, direct sales) at the right time, and building demand with channel marketing, so more partners close ShareGate deals on their own and no opportunity stalls for lack of support.
• Open new revenue streams with your partners by uncovering larger, more complex migration opportunities, expanding mailbox migration (including displacing competitive tools) and Protect adoption, and driving uptake of new partner programs as they launch.
• Use AI daily for account research, partner planning, forecasting, and communications, so your time goes to the conversations that move deals forward, not to prep work.

Your team

The ShareGate Channel team is growing fast and works the way we like to: quickly, collaboratively, and with plenty of trust. You'll report to the Channel Sales Manager and work daily with the Director, fellow Channel Account Managers, Distribution Channel Managers, and Partner Development Managers, with channel marketing, RevOps, technical enablement, support, and direct sales close by whenever you need them. Over the next 6 to 12 months, the team's ambition is to shift the channel from product-centric to strategic: deepening relationships with Premier and Elite partners, driving adoption of new partner programs as they launch, and turning high-potential partners into true growth accounts. Within six months, you'll own your book and cadences, have built a growth plan for your partners, and be testing new ideas to set up what comes next.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of channel sales experience in North America, ideally including the US, with a documented track record of meeting and exceeding quota (up to 30% travel between Canada and the US);
• Experience managing Premier- or Elite-level partners, including building and executing partner business plans;
• A sales-first, hunter mindset: an independent, entrepreneurial owner who creates their own pipeline, shows sound judgment and initiative, and can hit the ground running;
• Strong communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with the ease to talk to both sales teams and executives at partner organizations;
• A solid understanding of the IT channel ecosystem (distributors, resellers, and services partners);
• Comfort using AI tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) daily for account research, planning, forecasting, and communications: not an experiment, a habit;
• Bonus: Microsoft ecosystem experience and existing relationships with M365 partners.

What the job comes with

• Base salary: $105,000 - $120,000.This range reflects our Canada-wide compensation scale. Final offers may be adjusted based on the candidate's region to align with local market conditions.
  • OTE : $150,000 - $170,000 CAD
• LTIP program, share in Workleap's long-term growth.
• RRSP + Family health insurance + telemedicine + annual wellness budget.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Remote work, with access to our Montreal office.
• In-person gathering twice a year.
• Claude access, for everyone.

What drives us

At Workleap, we build software that sits at the center of how people experience work, every day, at every level.

We move fast. Priorities shift, decisions get made with the information we have, and we iterate. If you thrive on intensity and ambiguity doesn't slow you down, you'll feel right at home.
We're builders. We do what it takes to move forward. AI is part of our toolkit. We use it to go faster and decide smarter, not to replace judgment.

If you want real impact and a place where your decisions matter, this is it.

How we hire

Transparency is how we hire — for you as much as for us.

Here's how it works: a first call with a recruiter, then a virtual interview with the hiring manager. You'll then complete a take-home case study, followed by a meet with future colleagues to discuss it together. Depending on the role, the process may vary slightly — your recruiter will walk you through it on your first call.

We use AI to support certain steps of the process, but every hiring decision remains human.

We can't wait to meet you.