Strategic Partner Executive, CDW

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a senior, strategic partner leader to own and accelerate our relationship with CDW, a key strategic partner. You will act as the senior business owner for the Horizon3 and CDW relationship, shaping a multi-year strategy, expanding executive alignment, and embedding NodeZero into CDW’s security portfolio and customer engagements.

This role requires executive presence, sharp commercial judgment, cybersecurity channel expertise, and the ability to navigate a complex, matrixed

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cybersecurity channel partnerships and alliances.
• Strong executive communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strategic planning and multi-year program management.

Responsibilities

• Own the CDW joint business plan and set multi-year objectives.
• Develop executive-to-executive engagement between Horizon3 and CDW leaders.
• Build and maintain a durable, multi-threaded partner relationship map.
• Lead executive reviews and communicate progress, risks, and investments to senior leadership.

Job description

Get to Know Us

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.

We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Horizon3 http://Horizon3.ai is seeking a senior, strategic partner leader to own and accelerate our relationship with CDW, one of our most important strategic channel partners.

This role will serve as the senior business owner for the Horizon3 http://Horizon3.ai & CDW relationship. You will develop and execute a multi-year joint business strategy, expand executive alignment, increase partner-sourced pipeline and revenue, and embed NodeZero into CDW’s security portfolio, services motions, and customer engagements.

This is not a transactional channel role. The successful candidate will bring the executive presence, commercial judgment, cybersecurity channel expertise, and operating discipline required to manage a complex, matrixed strategic partner. You will build trusted relationships across CDW’s executive leadership, sales, solution architecture, technical, services, marketing, procurement, and marketplace teams while aligning Horizon3 http://Horizon3.ai Sales, Channel, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Support, Finance, and Legal around shared priorities.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

OWN THE CDW JOINT BUSINESS PLAN

• - Develop and maintain a comprehensive multi-year joint business plan with CDW
• - Establish shared objectives across revenue, pipeline, customer acquisition & upsell, services adoption, enablement, and strategic account penetration
• - Identify the highest-value CDW practices, regions, industry verticals, customer segments, and solution motions for Horizon3 http://Horizon3.ai to prioritize
• - Translate a shared strategy into a joint business plan with clear owners, milestones, investments, and measurable outcomes
• - Lead regular executive business reviews and communicate progress, risks, competitive dynamics, and investment needs to senior leadership

BUILD EXECUTIVE AND FIELD-LEVEL RELATIONSHIPS

• - Establish trusted relationships with CDW executives and leaders across sales, security, technical architecture, services, marketing, procurement, and strategic alliances
• - Create a durable, multi-threaded relationship map that extends beyond individual contacts or active opportunities
• - Develop executive-to-executive engagement between CDW and Horizon3 http://Horizon3.ai leaders
• - Build advocacy for NodeZero across CDW’s field organization, strategic practices, and technical communities
• - Ensure Horizon3 http://Horizon3.ai remains a preferred and strategically