The Role
The APAC Tech Partnership Director will drive growth by forming and managing relationships with technology partners, collaborating cross-functionally, and generating pipeline through partners.
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About us
We are Insider, the fastest-growing global MarTech scale-up and the #1 AI-native Customer Experience and Marketing platform trusted by enterprise brands worldwide. Our story began with six desks and a vision to create a single platform to make industry-first CX technologies and emerging channels accessible to marketers worldwide. Today, with 1500+ teammates across 50+ nationalities, we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in CX. Our architecture brings together unified customer data, advanced journey orchestration, and comprehensive AI capabilities by seamlessly blending predictive, generative, and agentic AI into a single customer engagement platform that empowers teams to activate customer engagement across 12+ channels.
We recently raised one of the largest funding rounds in the industry, a $500M Series E led by General Atlantic. We are backed by top-notch investors, including Sequoia Capital, QIA, Riverwood, and Endeavor Catalyst, and trusted by 1200+ brands from high-growth startups to the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung, Nike, L’Oreal, Singapore Airlines, Nestlé, Nissan, Lenovo, Puma, IKEA, Allianz, Domino's, and the list goes on.
Insider was congratulated for becoming one of the only woman-founded, women-led B2B SaaS unicorns in the world, achieving $200M in CARR (Committed Annual Recurring Revenue). According to Gartner, we are the dominant leader in Multichannel Marketing. Don’t just take our word for it — see for yourself. We consistently outperform and continue our leadership, and the results speak for themselves.
From day one, Insider’s mission has not been only to build a world-class product company, but also to create one of the most socially progressive technology communities in the world. Through our corporate social responsibility initiatives like 100 Social Responsibility Projects, AI Training for Teachers, Code Academy, SheCodes, SheLeads, and SheMarkables, our community has committed to scaling its impact on our communities across 27+ countries, driving initiatives in health, education, farming, animal rights, and increasing women’s representation in STEM.
Behind all these achievements is an exceptionally talented, visionary team of overachievers across 27+ countries that moves fast and agile, creating cutting-edge products, and focuses on making an impact. If you want to be a part of this journey, just keep reading.
The Partnership Director will drive Insider’s growth through supporting formation and management of mutually beneficial commercial relationships with Insider’s technology partners in APAC.
You will work cross-functionally across marketing, sales, onboarding and customer success teams, to help in the execution of go-to-market strategies and programs to drive selection, onboarding and enablement, and drive GTM with ISVs (e.g., AWS, Meta, Shopify, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) in your region.
This role requires a thorough understanding of Insider’s product capabilities, sales processes and partner ecosystem to ensure our go-to-market engine is primed and enabled to collaborate with strategic partners and drive mutual growth.
Responsibilities are categorized into two broad categories:
(1) Enabling the Partner & Insider Sales & Customer Success teams on the joint value proposition and
(2) Generating pipeline through & with the Partners driving both Referrals from the partners and co-selling with them.
The ideal candidate enjoys new challenges that test their organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills. They flourish in a team environment and work enthusiastically with colleagues outside the immediate team to achieve organizational goals.
Skills & Requirements:
- BS/BA degree required
- 10+ years of experience in partner sales and business development
- Previous leadership experience working for a SaaS company and managing relationships with Independent Software Vendors
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with both large and smaller channel partners
- High analytical skills and ability to quickly understand complex issues and develop/apply simplifying frameworks to facilitate broader organizational understanding, decision-making and action.
- Deep understanding of Solution Selling
- Output oriented with very strong ability to personally create high quality, customer-facing content including presentations and datasheets
- Excellent project management skills; able to effectively manage multiple ongoing projects to meet deadlines
- Experience with B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) business model
- Experience in marketing technology space preferred but not required
Job Description:
- Develop commercial relationships with strategic technology partners (ISVs) in the region
- Collaborate with Product & Product Marketing team to develop deep understanding of joint value proposition for each strategic technology partner
- Ensure Insider sales & customer success teams in the region is enabled on the partner’s offering and the joint value proposition
- Collaborate with the partner to ensure partner’s sales & customer success teams develop a deep understanding of Insider offering and the joint value proposition
- Develop and manage business plans to drive business through and with strategic technology partners in the region
- Collaborate with regional sales team members to support new acquisitions and expansions with the help of Insider’s strategic technology partners in the region
- Generate leads & manage your pipeline generated through and with your technology partners
- Collaborate with internal teams to grow Channels for Insider: Sales, Marketing, Onboarding & Customer Success teams.
- Leverage your technology partners to continually enhance Insider’s brand recognition
- Collaborate with regional field marketing team to engage your technology partners in driving co-marketing activities both at Insider organized events and Insider sponsored trade shows
- Work with Insider global offices to continually improve their partnership practice, grow their portfolio of partners, create go-to-market plans, drive expansion opportunities, and manage and grow the partnership.
Hold on! Life’s a two-way road! Here’s what you’ll enjoy while spending time with us (perks, anyone?)
- a chance to work in an international, diverse, and inclusive environment,
- access and opportunity to gain a limitless network all over the globe,
- a chance to become a Shareowner with the "Shareowner System" that we offer to all Insiders who meet certain criteria,
- to be part of an industry that’s shaping the future of customer experience
- access to many hard and soft skills pieces of training to help you improve and challenge yourself,
- access to 16,000+ online courses taught by real-world professionals on the LinkedIn Learning platform to satisfy your hunger for knowledge.
- space to share your skills through training sessions and workshops if you wish. Sharing is caring!
- That's not all. At Insider, you will find many more answers to "what’s in it for me?" but let’s discuss further details in our interview!
We are here to grow and drive growth. Together we are building a progressive culture that inspires us to create our life’s work and a bigger, bolder impact. If you are already feeling the excitement, just imagine yourself here taking part!
We provide equal opportunity in a zero-discrimination workplace and not just welcome but also embrace everyone without regard to sex, race, color, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or marital status.
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The Company
What We Do
Insider—one platform for individualized, cross-channel experiences—enables enterprise marketers to connect customer data across channels and systems, predict their future behavior with an AI intent engine and individualize customer experiences. Marketers use Insider’s platform to deliver experiences across channels like Web, App, Web Push, Email, SMS, and Messaging Apps (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, RCS).
Insider recently unlocked unicorn status and NASDAQ congratulated the company for becoming one of the few woman-founded, women-led B2B SaaS unicorns in the world. Insider was named as the #1 Leader in The Forrester Wave for Cross-Channel Campaign Management 2021 and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines 2021. The company has been named #1 Leader on G2’s Mobile Marketing Software and Personalization Grids with a 4.6/5 rating for 20 consecutive quarters. CrunchBase recently ranked Insider’s co-founder and CEO Hande Cilingir as one of the top women CEOs outside the US.
Many of the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies and top brands in retail, automotive, and travel use Insider to deliver AI-backed personalized experiences that exceed customer expectations. Insider is trusted by over 1,200 global businesses, including Singapore Airlines, Virgin, Toyota, New Balance, IKEA, GAP, L’Oreal, Samsung, Newsweek, MediaMarkt, Nissan, AVIS, Marks & Spencer, Allianz, Madeira Madeira, Santander, BBVA, Pizza Hut, Avon, and CNN.
