• Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
• Work with the head of business development to establish a prioritized strategy for systematically contacting relevant partners in targeted market segment (agencies, SIs, technology platforms).
• Establish contact with prospective partners, communicate the value of the SendGrid Partner Program, negotiate a partner agreement and lead the partner through our contracting process.
• In collaboration with a Partner Success Manager who will be assigned to new partners, work to on-board the partner to our program, which includes partner training, sign up for our partner portal,  launching a go-to-market program and SendGrid sales training.
• For partners that require a technical integration, collaborate with the PSM, product management and engineering to drive a technical integration plan.
• Ensure partners are exposed to all SendGrid solutions and services.
• Manage an active pipeline of partner targets and conduct weekly pipeline reviews.
• Attain weekly and monthly activity goals and partner sign-up goals.
• Travel frequently to partner locations to drive the partner sign-up process.
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all of the things you'll do

About You

• Typically, 3+ years experience in a business development, partnerships or account management role
• 3+ years of experience and successful track record driving an “account-attributed” or “partner-attributed” revenue target
• 3+ years of experience in planning and executing account or partner go-to-market plans and global expansion strategies
• A passion for driving growth through partners by creating win-win strategies
• Personable, outgoing and partner-oriented – enjoy interacting with others in professional and social settings
• Excellent communicator – Via the written and spoken word. Comfortable speaking one-on-one and in front of large groups
• Independent, responsible and self-motivated, but part of a Team – You’ll work as a key member of SendGrid’s marketing and sales teams, collaborate with community development, engineering, product management and customer success to succeed
• Willingness to travel - You should expect to be on the road multiple times per month
• An internal drive to be more awesome every single day
• Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in
• Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others
• Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active
• Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals

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