Director, Alliance

SLSQ427R368

While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations.

This senior leadership role will lead Partner Sales for the Central EMEA region (Germany. CH, Austria eastern Europe), focused on consulting and Systems Integrator (C&SI) partners, as a member of the Regional Leadership Team. The regional leader will build the regional ecosystem strategy and plan aligned with regional and functional priorities.

Your direct reports will include Partner Sales managers/directors in the region. You will report to the Vice President, EMEA Alliances.

As Director, Partner Sales, you own the partner go-to-market strategy for the assigned region — driving co-sell motions in our top accounts, working with priority partners for co-sell and co-deliver, building durable pipelines, and holding partners accountable to execution that converts to partner-sourced and partner-influenced consumption.

This is a highly visible, strategic role: you drive the partner-first motion across Sales, Field Engineering, Marketing, and work with the extended team of Partner Solution Architects, Partner Marketing, Partner Management and Partner Enablement. You carry Databricks' regional partner narrative to senior partner executives in our partner ecosystem. You will own and grow executive relationships and commitment with strategic partners across the region — including global and regional systems integrators (e.g. Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini) and specialist data and AI partners — and you bring deep industry knowledge and an operator's mindset powered by modern AI tooling.

• Leadership & Team Development — Lead the regional Alliances/C&SI function, building and developing a high-performing cross-functional team while representing the partner organisation in regional leadership forums.

• Strategic Planning & Ecosystem Leadership — Own the multi-year regional partner territory plan — forming a compelling 3-year vision with partner segmentation, coverage model, and operational rhythm aligned to regional and functional priorities.

• Executive Relationships & Narrative — Own executive-level partner relationships, building joint business plans and executive-ready narratives that represent Databricks credibly to senior partner and customer leadership.

• Account-Level Co-Sell & Big Bet Workshops — Drive joint account planning workshops in Top/must-win accounts with priority partners as the primary co-sell and pipeline creation mechanism; coach AEs and scale the partner motion through the field.

• Pipeline & Revenue Engine — Architect the regional partner GTM strategy and convert it into a tangible, partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and consumption. Drive partner-led demand generation at scale — industry events, co-funded campaigns, partner pitch days, and regional kickoff sponsorships.

• Product-Specific Partner GTM — Own product-specific partner campaigns (Migration & Modernisation, Genie, Lakebase, AgentBricks) aligned to platform priorities; proactively build partner capability on new products to maintain delivery coverage as the product mix evolves.

• Partner Execution & Accountability — Hold strategic SI partners and tiered programme partners (Gold/Silver) to joint commitments on both delivery capability and business development; run a disciplined operating cadence of pipeline reviews, forecast, and KPI inspection anchored to Salesforce; report impact, not