Partner Development Lead

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably efficiently securely and quickly increasing customers pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build test secure deploy and manage reliability feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI CD Cloud Cost Management Feature Flags Service Reliability Management Security Testing Orchestration Chaos Engineering Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. Were backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms including J.P. Morgan Capital One Ventures Citi Ventures ServiceNow Splunk Ventures Norwest Venture Partners Adage Capital Partners Balyasny Asset Management Gaingels Harmonic Growth Partners Menlo Ventures IVP Unusual Ventures GV (formerly Google Ventures) Alkeon Capital Battery Ventures Sorenson Capital Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

As a Partner Development Lead at Harness youll be at the forefront of building and scaling our global partner ecosystemdriving joint go-to-market success with strategic system integrators (SIs) and global consulting partners. Youll own the full lifecycle of partner engagementfrom defining joint value propositions and co-sell motions to enabling partners with the tools and resources needed to deliver customer success. This role is equal parts strategic and hands-on : youll collaborate cross-functionally with Sales Marketing and Product teams to accelerate partner-sourced revenue deepen relationships with key GSIs and execute measurable growth initiatives that amplify Harness presence across the DevOps and AI-driven software delivery landscape.

About the role

• Develop and manage select SI partners including defining joint value propositions co-sell motions partner marketing and pipeline generation.
• Build and execute joint go-to-market plans with partners including coordinated sales marketing and co-selling initiatives.
• Lead structured weekly pipeline calls with the GSI to review opportunity status address roadblocks and accelerate movement through the sales cycle.
• Align cross-functionally with Sales Marketing Product and Engineering to ensure that partner strategies align with company and product priorities.
• Drive customer success for partner-sourced and influenced projects to ensure value realization and adoption.
• Track and report partner performance across revenue pipeline and satisfaction metrics; make data-driven recommendations to improve outcomes.
• Monitor market trends and competitive activity to identify new partnership opportunities and areas for growth.
• Enable partners by coordinating with Education Enablement Product teams to deliver training resources and ongoing support to effectively sell and implement Harness.

About you

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Key Skills

Internship,Data Warehousing,Adobe Flash,Database Administration,Logistics

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1