Cloud Partnerships Manager

The Cloud Partner Manager will enable and nurture our strategic Cloud Partners (AWS) to drive shared success across the ANZ region. We are looking for someone who has a passion for developing strong relationships with partners and alliances and has had previous success using both internal and external resources to maximize revenue opportunities and establish Rapid7 as a strategic long term partner in a competitive landscape.

**About the Team**

The Cloud Partner Manager will report directly to the Cloud Partner Director and will work alongside the Rapid7 Sales and Customer Success teams. This role will be part of our global team of high performing partnership advocates, and will develop strong relationships internally at Rapid7 and externally with our Cloud Partners.

**About the Role**

As a critical Go-To-Market team member, you are responsible for managing strategic partnerships within the emerging Cloud Partnerships space, as a key route to market for Rapid7.

In this role you will:

- Serve as the sales point of contact for our Cloud partnerships including executive engagements, account team management, and escalations
- Develop and execute strategy, objectives and initiatives to achieve growth and revenue metrics
- Manage and grow Rapid7 marketplace business direct and through channel partners
- Create and effectively manage pipeline and reporting on opportunities and programs
- Identify and execute against new programs and growth initiatives that benefit both Rapid7 and Channel Partners and collaborate on the development of new use cases and integrations
- Develop a plan for incremental growth through the Cloud Marketplaces leveraging the partner ecosystem and provide a regular update of that plan and its results
- Communicate regularly with Leadership at Rapid7 to raise understanding and gain alignment needed to make these partnerships a huge success.
- Lead regular business planning efforts to align Partner and Rapid7 go-to-market engagement in the region, throughout Rapid7 and our Partners organizations.

The skills you’ll bring include:

- Previous channel sales experience highly preferred; and/or equivalent cybersecurity sales experience, as well as someone who understands the complexity of Cloud Partners
- A proven track record in exceeding quotas/targets and comfortable presenting effectively in front of both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to leverage data to forecast and provide insights to leadership
- Knowledge of the security industry and competitors is a plus, as well as a deep overall intellectual curiosity to learn about whatever the future may bring you.
- Experience and confidence managing partners' sales pipelines, as well as associated services businesses, and working with marketing to create new initiatives
- A collaborative team player; someone who can confidently partner with an internal set of multi-functional teams such as Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Operations to ensure targets are achieved and exceeded
- The ability to balance patience with inherent urgency to drive a long-term scalable approach to cloud partner strategy - and understanding that the only way to do drive results is through deep trust and teaming across Rapid7 and our Partners.

About Rapid7

Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) helps organizations across the globe protect what matters most so innovation can thrive in an increasingly connected world. Our comprehensive technology, services, and community-focused research simplify the complex for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, be in 10 places at once, and shut down attacks. We’re on a mission to make security solutions easier to use and access so we can bring safety and resilience to more people.

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