Vice President Partner Ecosystems

Tech Sales Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

BeyondTrust is seeking a VP of Partner Ecosystems to own the strategy, architecture, and health of the partner ecosystem, including resellers, distributors, technology alliances, MSSPs, and cloud partners. You will report to the SVP Global Partnerships and build a scalable team to turn partners into a growth engine, aligning with sales, marketing, product, and customer success.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in partnerships with 5+ years in senior leadership, and a proven track record of

Qualifications

• 10+ years of partnerships, channel, or alliances leadership experience, ideally in cybersecurity or enterprise SaaS.
• 5+ years in a senior leadership role, building scalable partner programs that drive revenue.
• Experience negotiating and structuring partner agreements and incentive programs.

Responsibilities

• Define and own overall partner ecosystem strategy across resellers, distributors, ISV alliances, MSSPs, and cloud marketplaces.
• Lead the partner program governance and tiering for scalable growth.
• Drive ecosystem revenue targets and partner-influenced/originated bookings and renewals.
• Hire and mentor a distributed team of partner/alliance managers.
• Align go-to-market partnerships with sales, marketing, product, and customer success.

Skills

Partnerships leadership

Channel sales

Executive communication

Forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

People leadership

Tools

Salesforce

PRM platforms

Job description

VP Partner Ecosystems

Location: Remote United States

Department: Partner

BeyondTrust is a place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work that you do, creating a safer world through our cybersecurity SaaS portfolio.

Our culture of flexibility, trust, and continual learning means you will be recognized for your growth, and for the impact you make on our success. You will be surrounded by people who challenge, support, and inspire you to be the best version of yourself.

The Role

The VP, Partner Ecosystems owns the strategy, architecture, and health of BeyondTrust's partner ecosystem — resellers, distributors, technology alliances, MSSPs, and cloud/marketplace partners. Reporting to SVP Global Partnerships, this role builds and leads the team and programs that turn partners into a predictable, scalable growth engine, working closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to align partner strategy with company revenue goals. The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of progressive partnerships, channel, or alliances leadership experience in enterprise cybersecurity or SaaS, with a track record of designing partner programs that scale sourced and co-sold revenue.

What You’ll Do

• Ecosystem Strategy: Define and own execution of the overall partner ecosystem strategy for resellers, distributors, technology/ISV alliances, MSSPs, and cloud marketplaces aligned to partner growth targets.
• Program Alignment & Governance: Build and evolve partner tiering focus and execution against partner program.
• Revenue Growth: Own ecosystem revenue targets; drive partner-influenced and partner-originated bookings, expansion, and retention across the portfolio.
• Team Leadership: Hire, lead, and develop a team of partner/alliance managers; set goals, coach performance, and build a scalable organizational structure.
• Strategic Alliances: Drive field execution of go-to-market alliances that extend BeyondTrust's platform value and market reach.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to embed partner motion into pipeline generation, launches, and renewals.
• Business Reviews & Forecasting: Run executive and quarterly business reviews with top partners and align to support sales in opportunity management.
• Enablement: Ensure partners are trained, certified, and equipped with the tools and content needed to sell and support BeyondTrust solutions.
• Ecosystem Health & Metrics: Define and track KPIs (partner-sourced revenue, GRR/NRR, partner activation) and report results to executive leadership.
• Market Representation: Represent BeyondTrust at partner and industry events, and serve as an executive sponsor for strategic partner relationships.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in partnerships, channel sales, or alliances, including 5+ years in a senior leadership role, ideally in cybersecurity or enterprise SaaS.
• Proven track record building and scaling partner ecosystems that deliver measurable, sourced/co-sold revenue growth.
• Experience negotiating and structuring partner agreements, incentive programs, and tiered partner models.
• Strong people-leadership experience: hiring, developing, and managing a distributed partnerships/alliances team.
• Deep understanding of channel go-to-market models (VAR, VAD, MSSP, technology alliances, cloud marketplaces).
• Executive-level communication and relationship-building skills, with experience presenting to C-level partners and internal leadership.
• Fluency with CRM and partner-management tooling (Salesforce, PRM platforms) and data-driven forecasting.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically/internationally to support partner and industry engagements.

Nice To Have

• Experience in privileged access management, identity security, or broader cybersecurity markets.
• Prior experience launching a partner program or ecosystem function from the ground up.
• Experience with cloud marketplace partnerships (AWS, Azure, GCP Marketplace).
• MBA or equivalent advanced business experience.

Better Together

Diversity. Inclusion. They’re more than just words for us. They are the guiding values of how we build our teams, cultivate leaders, and create a culture where people feel connected.

We take care of our employees so they can take care of our customers. Customers who come from all walks of life just like us. We hire incredible people from diverse backgrounds because when we are different together, we are stronger together.

About Us

BeyondTrust is the global identity security leader protecting Paths to Privilege™. Our identity-centric approach goes beyond securing privileges and access, empowering organizations with the most effective solution to manage the entire identity attack surface and neutralize threats, whether from external attacks or insiders.

BeyondTrust is leading the charge in transforming identity security to prevent breaches and limit the blast radius of attacks, while creating a superior customer experience and operational efficiencies. We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and our global ecosystem of partners.

Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com.

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