Senior Strategic Channels & Alliances Manager

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Senior Strategic Channels & Alliances Manager driving service integrator partner growth for Freshworks. Managing recruitment, enablement, and pipeline management in North America.

Responsibilities:

  • SI Recruitment & Onboarding: Identify, target, and sign SI partners aligned to Freshworks’ ITSM and CX growth priorities
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of prospective SI partners, drawing on market mapping, ex-ServiceNow and ex-incumbent networks, and competitive intelligence
  • Lead the end-to-end partner recruitment process — from initial outreach and business case development through to contract execution and onboarding
  • Design and execute structured onboarding programs that bring new SIs to first-deal-ready status quickly: product knowledge, commercial terms, deal registration, pre-sales support model
  • Partner Enablement & Acceleration: Build and maintain SI partner capability across sales, pre-sales, and delivery
  • Develop joint go-to-market plans with each SI partner, including target verticals, solution plays, and co-sell motions with Freshworks field teams
  • Drive participation in Freshworks enablement programmes
  • Act as the primary relationship owner into SI practice leads and partner alliances teams, building multi-threaded engagement across sales, delivery, and leadership
  • Pipeline & Revenue: Own and actively manage a partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline
  • Track and report on SI pipeline health, deal velocity, and revenue contribution through Salesforce
  • Strategy & Ecosystem Development: Contribute to the North America SI partner strategy
  • Identify SI partners with existing ServiceNow or legacy ITSM practices as priority displacement targets

Requirements:

  • 7+ years’ experience in channel, alliances, or partner management within a SaaS or enterprise software environment
  • Demonstrable track record of recruiting and activating SI partners, not just managing existing relationships
  • Strong understanding of how mid-tier SIs operate: practice structures, P&L dynamics, delivery models, and how they make partner investment decisions
  • Experience working in or adjacent to ITSM, EX, or CX categories — familiarity with the ServiceNow ecosystem is a strong advantage
  • Commercially rigorous: comfortable building joint business plans, setting pipeline targets, and holding partners accountable to commitments
  • Ability to build and maintain senior relationships within SI organisations — practice leads, alliance directors, and C-level stakeholders
  • Strong pipeline management discipline — fluent in Salesforce or equivalent CRM for partner opportunity tracking and forecasting
  • Effective at working cross-functionally: comfortable aligning field sales, pre-sales, and marketing behind partner-led motions

Benefits:

  • Multiple options for dental, medical, vision, disability, and life insurance
  • Equity + ESPP
  • Flexible PTO
  • Flexible spending
  • Commuter benefits
  • Wellness benefits
  • Adoption and parental leave benefits