Partner Sales Manager - IHV Alliances
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Remote
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Job Description
The Partner Sales Manager role involves building strategic relationships with hardware vendors, driving sales opportunities, and promoting Canonical's open source solutions, particularly Ubuntu, to expand market share and support partner initiatives in a remote, fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Build strategic relationships and enable partner teams within IHV alliances
- Generate and transact opportunities with IHV partners to grow market share
- Increase partner awareness of open source capabilities on Canonical Ubuntu
- Deliver on sales targets and objectives through partner engagement
- Conduct customer workshops, participate in sales events, and deliver public presentations
- Align and support internal Canonical field teams to identify and grow opportunities
- Expand existing IHV customer footprint and upsell broader portfolio offerings
- Support broader strategy, initiatives, and key campaigns related to partnerships
Requirements
- Experience in alliance or indirect sales management roles
- Ability to build strategic relationships and enable partner teams on the partnership
- Experience in building pipeline and transacting opportunities through an IHV
- Ability to grow partner awareness of open source capabilities on Canonical Ubuntu
- Deep understanding of the Linux and cloud software ecosystem
- Ability to deliver on targets and objectives and provide a voice of the partner
- Willingness to travel regularly, sometimes internationally, up to 4 times a year to drive partnerships in person
- Ability to align and support internal canonical field teams to identify, support, grow, and transact opportunities
- Experience managing cross-functional teams and a track record of operational excellence
- Willingness to support and contribute to broader strategy, initiatives, and key campaigns
- Autonomous, disciplined, hands-on, get-it-done mentality
- Ability to capture customer requirements, evaluate gaps, and identify and create opportunities
- Passion for Ubuntu products and mission
- Comfortable in fast-paced and high-pressure environments with measurable goals
- Experience with Linux, virtualization, containers, and other cloud technologies
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Credibility and working knowledge of IHVs, their products, go-to-market motion, and field
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce and Google Suite (preferred but not mandatory)
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Team Member Assistance Program
Wellness Platform
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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