MinIO is the industry leader in high-performance object storage and the company behind the world’s fastest, most widely deployed object store, powering production infrastructure for more than half of the Fortune 500, including 9 of the 10 largest global automakers and all 10 of the largest U.S. banks. Our enterprise offering, AIStor, is engineered to handle the scale, speed, and pressure of modern AI and analytics, from terabytes to exabytes, all in a single namespace.
The GSI Partner Sales Director is a senior-level role responsible for building, managing, and scaling strategic partnerships with leading Global System Integrators (GSIs) such as Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, HCL, and others. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of alliance management, global co-selling models, and enterprise technology sales—particularly within the data storage or cloud infrastructure space.
What You Will Do- Own and expand strategic relationships with top-tier GSIs to drive joint revenue, global pipeline, and solution integration.
- Develop and execute comprehensive joint business plans, including go-to-market initiatives, solution development, and field enablement.
- Align GSI partner strategies with global enterprise sales and marketing objectives.
Revenue & Pipeline Ownership
- Drive partner-influenced and partner-led revenue globally across all relevant verticals and regions.
- Collaborate with regional sales teams and partners on strategic opportunities and global account planning.
- Establish quarterly business reviews and reporting on pipeline, forecast, and revenue performance.
Solution Development & Enablement
- Work with GSIs to develop repeatable, scalable joint solutions and service offerings built on MinIO’s technology.
- Enable GSI sales and technical teams through training, certifications, and joint marketing campaigns.
- Support co-innovation efforts that align with industry-specific needs (e.g., financial services, public sector, healthcare).
Executive Relationship Management
- Build executive-level relationships within GSI partner organizations, as well as within MinIO's leadership team.
- Act as the global point of contact for GSI alliances, ensuring alignment across functions and geographies.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Work closely with product, marketing, sales, legal, and customer success to deliver on partner goals.
- Advocate for partner needs and jointly drive competitive positioning, enablement, and strategic messaging.
- 10+ years of experience in alliance management, strategic partnerships, or global sales roles within enterprise technology.
- Proven success building and scaling strategic partnerships with GSIs across global markets.
- Deep understanding of data storage, hybrid cloud, or infrastructure technologies.
- Strong executive presence and experience influencing C-level decision-makers.
- Demonstrated ability to create and execute global business plans and drive revenue accountability.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work across time zones and cultures with strong cross-functional coordination.
- Willingness to travel globally (up to 30–40%).
- Existing relationships with senior leaders at major GSIs such as Accenture, Capgemini, TCS, or Deloitte.
- Experience in storage, data management, or cloud-native technology environments.
- Familiarity with partner programs, global deal registration, and alliance metrics/KPIs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, or related field; MBA or equivalent experience preferred.
What We Offer
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- 401K with 3% Contribution
- Pre-IPO Stock Options
- At least 12 Public Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Top Skills
What We Do
MinIO has pioneered the creation of high-performance, kubernetes-native object storage. Their open source, software-defined, Amazon S3 compatible object storage system is optimized for the private cloud. It is the world's fastest growing object storage company, with more than 415M Docker pulls and more than 24K GitHub Stars.
Enterprises use MinIO to deliver against ML/AI, analytics, application, backup and archival workloads - all from a single platform.
The world's fastest object storage server, MinIO offers READ/WRITE speeds of 183 GB/s and 171 GB/s on standard hardware. In addition, MinIO was built from scratch in the last four years and is native to the technologies and architectures that define the cloud. These include containerization, orchestration with Kubernetes, microservices and multi-tenancy.
MinIO offers a host of enterprise features including inline erasure coding, bit-rot detection, state-of-the-art encryption, active-active replication, object locking, lifecycle management and identity + access management.
Commercial licenses and support are available through the MinIO Subscription Network. The Subscription Network is designed to optimize deployments of MinIO and reduce the risk associated with data loss and data breach while providing 24/7/365 direct-to-engineering support.
