National Partner Manager, AHEAD
Location: Chicago, Illinois — Remote, Chicago-based
Travel: Approximately 30–50%, including regular partner meetings and a monthly New York cadence
Reports to: Director, Partner Sales
Role Overview
Nasuni is hiring a National Partner Manager to own and accelerate our strategic partnership with AHEAD. You will turn an established relationship into a scalable growth engine through joint planning, executive alignment, field activation, demand creation, and disciplined pipeline execution.
This is a single-partner national role with direct revenue accountability. It is for a channel leader who produces results through people who do not report to them—not a portfolio manager or direct seller who personally runs every opportunity.
Level & Scope Definition
You will operate with significant autonomy as Nasuni’s business owner for AHEAD, setting strategy and governance while coordinating Sales, Sales Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, and executive resources. The role balances long-range strategy with hands-on program execution and has no direct reports. Year-one scope is North America; international planning may follow as the partnership develops.
Responsibilities
- Own annual and quarterly joint business plans, including targets, governance, accountabilities, investments, and executive reviews.
- Build durable, multi-threaded relationships across AHEAD sales, alliances, engineering, services, and marketing leadership.
- Translate partner economics—including services attach, margin, incentives, and seller compensation—into a compelling reason to lead with Nasuni.
- Grow partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline, bookings, and forecast accuracy across commercial, enterprise, and strategic segments.
- Create account-mapping, field-activation, enablement, and joint-sales programs that reach a distributed organization without depending on deal-by-deal participation.
- Design co-marketing and demand-generation motions, define the investment case, and measure return.
- Support top-deal strategy and executive escalation while converting wins into documented plays others can run.
- Maintain accurate Salesforce reporting and use approved AI-enabled workflows for research, partner intelligence, pipeline analysis, and automation. Validate outputs, protect confidential data, and retain decision accountability.
What Success Looks Like
In the first year, you will establish a signed joint plan and operating cadence, strengthen executive coverage, launch measurable field and demand programs, grow partner-sourced pipeline, and create repeatable motions both companies can run at scale.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 8+ years in channel sales, alliances, strategic partnerships, partner development, or enterprise technology sales, including 5+ years owning national or strategic partners.
- Direct accountability for partner-sourced or partner-influenced pipeline, forecast, bookings, or revenue.
- Experience authoring and executing joint business plans with national solution providers, integrators, or strategic channel partners.
- Success influencing executives and distributed field teams without formal authority.
- National scope across at least two segments: commercial/SMB, enterprise, or strategic.
- Working knowledge of solution-provider economics, CRM discipline, and forecasting.
- Practical use of AI-enabled tools to improve partner or sales workflows, with clear validation and data-handling judgment.
- Based in the Chicago area, or willing to relocate, and able to travel approximately 30–50%.
Preferred
- Experience in enterprise software, cloud, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, cyber resilience, storage, or adjacent SaaS markets.
- Co-marketing, market development funds, partner enablement, campaign ROI, Salesforce, or partner ecosystem management experience.
- Experience in a private-equity-backed or high-growth SaaS company.
- Cross-border partner experience.
Ideal
- Prior work with AHEAD as a partner, customer, or former employee.
- Ownership of a named national partner with multi-million-dollar annual responsibility.
- A record of turning individual wins into programs others adopted.
Experience Guidelines
Successful candidates typically bring 9–15 years of relevant experience. Scope, ownership, and national-partner outcomes matter more than tenure alone. No specific degree is required.
About Nasuni
Nasuni is the unstructured data foundation for enterprise teams—and the AI that supports them. We manage, protect, and activate the world’s unstructured data so organizations can work smarter, spend wisely, and create safely without limits. As a Vista-backed SaaS data infrastructure company, Nasuni is transforming how enterprises manage file data with a next-generation, AI-ready platform—turning massive file stores into secure, actionable, and AI-ready data for intelligent automation, analytics, and global collaboration.
Why work at Nasuni?
As part of our commitment to your well-being, we are pleased to offer comprehensive benefits packages to employees across the US. Benefits packages generally include:
• Best in class employee onboarding and training
• "Take What You Need” paid time off policy
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• 401(k) and Roth IRA retirement plan
• Generous employee referral bonuses
• Flexible remote work policy
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Wide array of wellbeing offerings
• Pre-tax savings accounts with company contributions
• Great team culture and social activities
• Collaborative workspaces
• Free on-site fitness centers and stocked kitchens in select office locations
• Professional development resources
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8+ years in channel sales or strategic partnerships, 5+ years owning national partners, direct accountability for partner-sourced pipeline, experience with joint business plans, CRM discipline, AI tool usage, based in Chicago area, 30-50% travel.
Key Responsibilities
- managing partner relationships
- developing joint business plans
- driving partner pipeline
Skills & Tools
Salesforce, AI-enabled workflows
Job Details
- Category: Business Development
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Chicago or Illinois
- Languages: English
Benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Retirement plan
About Nasuni
A data infrastructure company providing AI-ready file data management and protection. — Industry: Information Technology