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The Strategic Alliances Director manages Global System Integrator partnerships, building executive relationships, joint go-to-market plans, marketing strategies, sales pipelines, and revenue growth. Responsibilities include partner onboarding and enablement, business development, contract negotiation, QBRs, performance reporting, executive alignment, and collaboration with sales and marketing teams. The role requires extensive enterprise software partnership sales experience, a strong partner network, quota achievement, and domestic and international travel.

Leads the renewal operating model, process transformation, reporting, forecasting, and AI-enabled automation. Builds trusted dashboards, improves data quality and forecast accuracy, reduces manual work, and drives cross-functional change across Renewals, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, Data & Analytics, and Information Systems. Establishes governance, controls, documentation, and responsible AI practices while delivering actionable insights and communicating operational progress, risks, and recommendations to senior leaders.

Leads the design and scaling of global partner programs, enablement journeys, and operating processes. Establishes partner lifecycle frameworks, governance, planning cadences, dashboards, attribution, forecasting, and executive reporting. Coordinates cross-functional alignment across sales, marketing, product, services, finance, legal, and operations while driving strategic partner motions and measurable pipeline, revenue, adoption, and customer outcomes. Builds organizational capability through hiring, coaching, reusable processes, and accountable execution.

Owns an assigned enterprise sales territory focused on new-logo acquisition and upselling. Develops sales plans, positions value propositions, negotiates complex contracts, forecasts activity, prepares subscription pricing and proposals, and collaborates with partners and internal teams. The role requires a strong record of exceeding quota, closing strategic enterprise software deals with long sales cycles, engaging C-level and strategic buyers, and working with global partners and system integrators.

Serve as primary technical liaison for enterprise customers, delivering best-practice recommendations, onboarding, upgrades, training, escalations, and cross-functional coordination to ensure successful adoption and retention of Ping Identity solutions.

Design and develop scalable React front-end applications, reusable UI components, and accessible design-system foundations. Collaborate with product, UX, and backend teams on user-focused features and API integration. Define front-end architecture standards, optimize performance, maintain build and CI/CD pipelines, ensure code quality through testing and reviews, and mentor engineers. The role also supports responsive design, documentation, troubleshooting, and scalable state management and data-fetching practices.

Design and develop large-scale Java-based identity management features, implement authentication and identity protocols, collaborate with distributed teams, enable cloud deployments, resolve customer issues, and prioritize security, performance, and testability.

Lead identification, negotiation, and operationalization of strategic partnerships with foundation model providers, AI infrastructure, and hyperscalers. Own end-to-end partner lifecycle, drive joint solutions and GTM plays, track KPIs and revenue impact, influence product roadmap, represent Ping externally, and scale partner engagement using AI tools and automation.

Manage marketing automation and lifecycle programs across Marketo, Salesforce, 6Sense and related platforms. Design and optimize automations for lead management, routing, attribution, and segmentation; own data hygiene and governance; coordinate marketing-to-sales handoffs; manage Salesforce workflow requests and cross-functional initiatives to improve lead-to-revenue processes.

Lead North America execution of AI-first SDLC transformation and quality platforms for a multi-tenant SaaS identity product. Define system validation and quality platform strategy, enable agentic quality workflows, drive shift-left developer-owned testing, own CI/CD quality gates and telemetry, improve production readiness and release confidence, and hire and coach senior technical contributors while partnering across Dev, SRE, DevTools, Product, and AI teams.