The role, in a nutshell:
We’re looking for a highly motivated strategic partner/business development professional (VARs) who has strong market knowledge, a cloud and security network, and enjoys building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software. Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard's solutions offer.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and revenue outcomes across a portfolio of assigned VARs and Regional System Integrators, with clear accountability for contribution to overall bookings.
- Drive consistent pipeline creation through joint prospecting, partner-led opportunity identification, and co-selling motions with aligned field sales teams.
- Improve partner attach rates by enabling partners to position Chainguard as a core component of their security, cloud-native, and modernization offerings.
- Accelerate deal velocity and win rates by ensuring partners are effectively enabled, engaged early in the sales cycle, and aligned to customer use cases.
- Identify, recruit, and prioritize high-performing partners that demonstrate sustained investment in Chainguard through sales focus, technical enablement, and go-to-market execution.
- Execute joint business planning with partners, including pipeline targets, solution focus areas, enablement milestones, and marketing initiatives, and track progress through quarterly and annual business reviews.
- Drive measurable progress in partner readiness metrics, including certifications, solution validation, demo capability, and delivery confidence.
- Increase partner-driven demand generation impact through joint regional marketing campaigns, events, and field activities, with clear attribution to pipeline creation and opportunity progression.
- Maintain strong forecast accuracy and pipeline hygiene by managing partner opportunities in SFDC and related tools, ensuring visibility into sourced, influenced, and co-sell deals.
- Partner cross-functionally with sales, solution engineering, marketing, and partner operations to remove friction, improve execution efficiency, and scale partner success.
Required Skills / Experience:
- 5+ years of Software Channel Manager experience required.
- Experience working with and through VARs.
- Successful sales background required having carried and overachieved quota.
- Startup experience a plus.
- Entrepreneurial self-starter, who knows how to structure and breakdown ambiguous problems into executable steps.
- Strong verbal and written communication including high level of comfort with public speaking and excellent presentation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport with a variety of groups.
- Team player and ability to work independently.
- Strong technical aptitude.
- Data, metric-driven.
About Us
Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.
Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.
Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.
We live and breathe our company values:
We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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