Lead Cloudinary's strategic Akamai partnership in North America by defining GTM initiatives, driving executive engagements and QBRs, enabling joint marketing and sales programs, coordinating cross-functional account planning, recruiting executive sponsors, maintaining technical alignment, and tracking partner performance to drive pipeline and growth.
Cloudinary is the Image and Video API platform trusted by millions of developers and over 10,000 companies worldwide. Our powerful tools fuel websites to be faster, richer in user engagement, and breakthrough creativity. With a growing suite of products that support everything from developer efficiency to brand storytelling, Cloudinary is becoming the visual layer of the web.
Cloudinary has a globally distributed team across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, united by a shared commitment to building smart, scalable technology and a culture rooted in humility, curiosity, and collaboration. At Cloudinary, we celebrate Life & Work. We believe in healthy growth, working with purpose, and creating meaningful value. If you’re looking for a place where your voice matters and your work truly makes an impact, this may be the opportunity for you.
Cloudinary is passionate about building valuable partnerships that create joint wins for us, our partners, prospects, and our shared customers. To continue to drive the growth of our ecosystem, we’re looking for a Technology Partnerships Director, who will set and execute the direction for targeted strategic Akamai partnership in North America. This role will define and lead key initiatives and program changes to increase the program value to our Akamai partners and Cloudinary.
Responsibilities:
- Drive mindshare across Akamai partner ecosystems that help establish GTM activities in North America
- Promote Cloudinary + Akamai partnership advantages with shared customer wins to foster strong, long-term relationships with Akamai partner sales and technical teams.
- Drive Quarterly Business Reviews and other ongoing executive engagements with Akamai partners, measuring performance against growth targets
- Collaborate with Cloudinary Product Marketing to create the required collateral for Akamai partnership to support GTM initiatives
- Collaborate with Cloudinary Channels & Alliance organization to help build preferences for Cloudinary offerings inside Akamai partners and Akamai partner ecosystems
- Recruit executive sponsors and key executive supporters within Akamai partners and Cloudinary to create a strong alignment structure.
- Maintain a collaborative technical relationship that helps optimize and foster support for Cloudinary’s roadmap capabilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Channels & Alliances, Sales, Marketing, and Product, to develop and implement enablement programs and joint marketing campaigns that drive sales opportunities
- Work collaboratively with Akamai partners and Cloudinary teams to define strategic accounts and joint account planning targets, to support proactive business development.
- Track, analyze, and report on key performance metrics and pipeline activities for internal stakeholders, including executive leadership, to drive data-driven decision-making and optimize Akamai partner performance.
Requirements:
- 5+ years in business development, strategic alliances and/or partner management for a cloud based service provider.
- 4+ years leading partnership activities for a SaaS provider, ideally working with or for Akamai
- Experience selling Cloud infrastructure services such as Storage, Akamai or compute services
- Demonstrated track record of successful quota attainment in a sales and alliances role, tracking all types of measurements including sell through, sell to and sell with (partner influence)
- Advanced understanding of Akamai services, including products, pricing, packaging positioning and GTM tactics
- Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
- Willingness to travel as required to meet with partners and attend industry events
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We have you in mind. As an employee, you will experience many benefits, including:
Awesome technology
Top-talent peers
100% sponsored medical, dental, and vision plans for employees & family
HSA company contribution
Matching 401k program
Robust vacation & wellness policy
Annual development stipend
Catered lunches or a food stipend
Cloudinary is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to pursuing a diverse workforce.
Top Skills
Cloudinary,Akamai,Cloud Storage,Cloud Compute
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