MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects across core, edge, and cloud. Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, MinIO is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications, and autonomous agents secure, persist, and unlock the full value of their data.
MinIO is seeking a senior leader to serve as the dedicated owner and operational architect for our most critical global alliances with Tier 1 technology giants. This is a high-impact, singular focus role where you will build a deep partnership to ensure 100% alignment between the partner’s roadmap and our internal engines.
You will be the primary point person ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. You will bridge the gap between what we promise at the C-level and what we deliver.
What You Will Do:Global Alliance Orchestration
- Internal Hub: Serve as the driving force for all internal Engineering, Sales, and Marketing activities. You are the glue that ensures technical integrations, go-to-market campaigns, and sales motions are synchronized.
- Execution Management: Track every workstream (joint PRs, product milestones, sales incentives) to ensure deadlines are met and internal stakeholders are held accountable.
- Strategic Voice: Translate partner requirements into actionable insights for the company leadership team to influence our product and field strategies.
Co-Sell & Sales Acceleration
- Co-Sell Mastery: Own the co-sell motion with the partner, managing pipeline sharing, lead registration, and joint account planning to drive revenue.
- Sales Concierge: Act as the "easy button" for our Sales team, providing them with the navigation and resources they need to win within the partner’s ecosystem.
- Marketplace Optimization: Work with Marketing and Product to ensure our presence in the partner's marketplace and flagship events is premium, updated, and high-converting.
Strategy & Governance
- Executive Presence: Own the relationship at the leadership level. You must be comfortable presenting to and influencing C-suite stakeholders both at MinIO and within the partner organization.
- QBR Ownership: Lead the Quarterly Business Review process, providing data-driven insights on revenue influence, co-sell performance, and technical milestones.
- Briefing & Reporting: Prepare MinIO leadership for high-stakes meetings with "state of the union" reports and strategic talk tracks.
- 10+ years of experience in a high-growth tech environment, specifically in Partnerships, Co-Sell Management, or Strategic Sales.
- Direct Sales Experience: You understand the "feet on the street" reality and know how to help a sales rep navigate a complex partner ecosystem to close a deal.
- High "Organizational IQ": Proven ability to navigate complex, multi-layered organizations and get things done through influence rather than direct authority.
- Project Management Mastery: You live in the details and take pride in never letting a ball drop across engineering or marketing workstreams.
- Experience working directly with (or at) a hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP) or a major AI infrastructure provider.
- A background that blends business strategy with a "get-it-done" operational mindset.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and high-speed startup pace where roles and technical requirements evolve quickly.
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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years experience in Partnerships, Co-Sell Management, or Strategic Sales in high-growth tech
- Direct sales experience and ability to support field reps through complex partner ecosystems
- Proven executive presence and ability to influence C-suite stakeholders
- Demonstrated project management mastery; track and drive multiple technical and GTM workstreams
- Experience working directly with or at a hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP) or major AI infrastructure provider
- High organizational IQ with ability to navigate complex, multi-layered organizations
- Blend of business strategy and operational, get-it-done mindset; thrive in ambiguity and fast pace
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.
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