Strategic Ecosystem Growth Leader (Remote)

Acxiom; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom is seeking a Leader of Ecosystem Partnerships to drive end-to-end partner strategy and go-to-market motions. You will own the GTM strategy across key ecosystem technology partners and build structured plans with clear metrics for partner-sourced revenue.

You will lead a team of partner managers, enable partner sellers and solution engineers on Acxiom's identity resolution and data capabilities, while shaping competitive positioning and cross-functional alignment with sales, marketing, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years in partnerships, alliances, or business development at an enterprise data, marTech, or cloud infrastructure company.
• Direct experience co-selling with hyperscaler/platform ecosystems (Adobe, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce, or similar).
• Track record building GTM playbooks and driving measurable partner-sourced pipeline along with both direct and indirect revenue.
• Strong grasp of identity resolution, first-party data infrastructure, and customer data platform (CDP) concepts.
• Executive presence—comfortable running joint business planning with partner VPs and building internal alignment across sales, marketing, and product.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated vertical is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the GTM strategy and execution across Acxiom's key ecosystem technology partners, defining and deploying new revenue growth structures with each partner for Acxiom products and downstream Acxiom services.
• Lead and develop a team of Ecosystem growth partner managers driving joint Go-to-market execution across Acxiom’s strategic ecosystem growth partners.
• Build and execute structured GTM plans with 90-day stretch objectives and success metrics for partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue.
• Lead partner enablement, training partner sellers and solution engineers on Acxiom's identity resolution, cross-channel orchestration, and measurement capabilities.
• Develop and refine competitive positioning for Acxiom's identity and data backbone in the context of agentic marketing and enterprise data infrastructure.
• Build joint pipeline with partner sales and alliance teams; track and report on co-sell revenue, pipeline health, and partner-sourced bookings.
• Represent Acxiom at partner QBRs, planning cycles, and executive relationship-building.
• Identify white space for new ecosystem partnerships that extend Acxiom's reach into adjacent platforms and marketplaces.
• Design governance frameworks, milestone structures, and accountability models for external partners.
• Build and nurture strategic relationships within Omnicom and ecosystem partner stakeholders, influencing positioning and partnership success.
• Identify partner client needs and shape differentiated solutions leveraging Acxiom capabilities and ecosystem partner technologies.
• Support pursuit strategies, opportunity qualification and deal progression, engaging with senior stakeholders across clients and partners.
• Promote joint value propositions through thought leadership, partner planning activities and participation in key industry initiatives.
• Ecosystem growth focus is on the following platforms: Databricks, Snowflake, Adobe, Salesforce.

Skills

15+ years partnerships

Co-selling with ecosystems

GTM playbooks

Identity resolution

Executive presence

Regulated industry experience

Job description

Acxiom is seeking a Leader of Ecosystem Partnerships to drive end-to-end partner strategy and go-to-market motions. You will own the GTM strategy across key ecosystem technology partners and build structured plans with clear metrics for partner-sourced revenue.

You will lead a team of partner managers, enable partner sellers and solution engineers on Acxiom's identity resolution and data capabilities, while shaping competitive positioning and cross-functional alignment with sales, marketing, and