Abnormal AI is seeking a Channel Account Manager to join our Channel Management team. This role is pivotal in supporting our sales efforts by developing and managing key relationships with channel partners across the US. As part of a highly collaborative and detail-oriented team, you will build strong relationships with both national and regional partners. You’ll work cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and technical teams to align go-to-market strategies, drive partner engagement, and support the successful execution of joint sales efforts. Your ability to adapt to diverse stakeholder needs—from executives to technical staff—will be essential as you represent Abnormal's value in a competitive market.
What you will do- Drive partner-sourced pipeline and bookings by identifying and onboarding high-impact partners, including national, regional, and MSSP channels.
- Collaborate with internal channel and sales leadership to develop targeted recruitment and enablement strategies.
- Create and maintain Partner Account Plans with top partners, incorporating measurable sales, marketing, and enablement objectives.
- Coordinate demand generation activities with channel marketing to drive awareness and qualified leads.
- Align closely with regional sales teams to connect top prospects with suitable partners, facilitating measurable pipeline growth.
- Serve as a strategic liaison between Abnormal’s field leadership and partner executives, ensuring alignment and collaboration across organizations.
- Conduct regular training and knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure partner teams are fully equipped to position and sell Abnormal's offerings.
- Represent partner interests internally and advocate for high-quality execution of co-marketing, certification, and partner program initiatives.
- Take ownership of national partner relationships and drive quarterly planning and enablement to strengthen these engagements.
- Develop expertise in key areas of channel operations (e.g., deal registration, enablement programs, incentive platforms), and lead knowledge-sharing across the team.
- Proven success applying a structured channel methodology to drive measurable outcomes.
- Experience working with and having a strong understanding of partner dynamics in the region.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex value propositions to a variety of audiences.
- Highly organized, with the ability to manage competing priorities and follow through on deliverables.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with sales engineering, marketing, business development, and customer success teams.
- A proactive, solution-oriented approach, especially in dynamic or resource-constrained environments.
- Viewed as a trusted collaborator and strategic partner by internal stakeholders, capable of contributing to broader business discussions beyond core channel activities.
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Actual compensation will be determined based on several non-discriminatory factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.
A note on AI in our process:
Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore. They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards.
Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Skills Required
- Proven success applying a structured channel methodology to drive measurable outcomes
- Experience working with and strong understanding of partner dynamics in the region
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including conveying complex value propositions to varied audiences
- Ability to manage competing priorities and follow through on deliverables
- Experience working cross-functionally with sales engineering, marketing, business development, and customer success teams
- Proactive, solution-oriented approach in dynamic or resource-constrained environments
- Ability to act as a trusted collaborator and strategic partner to internal stakeholders
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as robust, including employer-paid premiums for employees in prior postings, One Medical access, and globally designed healthcare and parental leave.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off provisions include flexible/unlimited PTO, company holidays, and paid parental leave that the company positions as globally available.
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What We Do
The Abnormal Security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage and organizational mistrust. Though one-click, API-based Office 365 and G Suite integration, Abnormal sets up in minutes and does not disrupt email flow. Abnormal Security was founded in 2018 by CEO Evan Reiser, CTO Sanjay Jeyakumar, Head of Machine Learning Jeshua Bratman, and Founding Engineers Abhijit Bagri and Dmitry Chechik. The team previously built behavioral profiling and machine learning technologies at Twitter, Google and Pinterest that are being applied to solve a problem that costs organizations $1 billion per year, according to the FBI. The Abnormal Security platform stops targeted phishing, business email compromise and account takeover attacks that have never been seen before.
