Vice President, Global Channels – Alliances

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Vice President leading Riverbed’s global channels and alliances strategy for AI-powered observability and acceleration solutions. Driving partner revenue, ecosystem growth, and worldwide channel organization performance.

Responsibilities:

  • Define and execute Riverbed’s global channels and alliances strategy
  • Align partner investments, coverage, segmentation, and priorities with Riverbed’s growth objectives
  • Own channel-sourced and channel-influenced revenue, pipeline, and growth
  • Establish accountability for forecasting, partner productivity, and overall business performance
  • Build and optimize a global partner ecosystem spanning distributors, VARs, MSPs, GSIs, cloud providers, OEMs, and strategic technology partners
  • Cultivate executive relationships with strategic global partners
  • Develop joint business plans, co-selling motions, solutions, and go-to-market initiatives
  • Drive partner recruitment, enablement, activation, and productivity
  • Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing global channels organization
  • Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Services, and Operations to align go-to-market strategies and maximize partner contribution

Requirements:

  • 15+ years of enterprise technology or software channel leadership experience
  • Significant responsibility for global or multinational partner organizations
  • Proven success building and scaling global partner ecosystems generating $100M+ in partner-attributed revenue
  • Direct accountability for revenue, pipeline, and growth
  • Deep expertise across channel sales, strategic alliances, indirect go-to-market models, and cloud and technology partnerships
  • Experience managing ecosystems encompassing distributors, VARs, MSPs, GSIs, OEMs, cloud providers, and strategic technology alliances
  • Ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing global channel organizations
  • Strong executive presence and relationship-management capabilities
  • Ability to influence and engage C-level executives internally and across strategic partner organizations
  • Experience within enterprise SaaS, networking, observability, cybersecurity, infrastructure software, or other recurring-revenue technology environments

Benefits:

  • Flexible workplace policies
  • Employee resource groups
  • Learning and development resources
  • Career progression pathways
  • Community engagement initiatives
  • Global employee wellness programs supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being
  • Equal employment opportunities in accordance with applicable laws