At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

\nThe Role\n

Global Partner Sales Leader

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Why We Have This Role

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The Global Partner Sales Leader is responsible for developing and maintaining strategic partnerships for Qualtrics largest partners to drive business objectives and revenue growth across the globe. This role focuses on managing relationships with Technology, Implementation, and Strategic Partners building revenue accelerating GTMs to support. The individual in this position will play a key role in developing and maturing strong partnerships, negotiating contracts, and driving successful collaborations for the organization. This role is critical to the scale of pipeline generation and closed deals and successful delivery of our solution. This role is a people manager who leads a small team of experienced Partner Engagement Managers (PEMs) each committed to a select partner/set of partners.   

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How You’ll Find Success

\n\nThis role will support the team to execute:  \n\nPartnership GTM Execution : Support team to develop and implement a strategic partnership GTMs plan to grow the organization's market presence, revenue generation, and customer base. Identify and prioritize partnership revenue generating opportunities and collaborate with internal teams to leverage these partnerships effectively.\nThis role Ensure team develops and deploys a joint partnership GTM strategy outlining objectives, gap resolution, and key revenue initiatives that will be the focus for the partnership.  This could include sales enablement, marketing gaps, account management, account strategy, etc.  Work with Qualtrics and Partner executive teams to ensure joint strategic GTM alignment and support.  \nCross-Functional Collaboration: Align internal and partner resources based on current needs and objectives of both organizations.  This resource coordination includes, legal, product, finance, sales, delivery support, XM Success, and executive alignment on both sides of the equation. Develop project plans, timelines, and deliverables to drive the successful execution of collaborative initiatives, drive revenue growth, and enhance customer acquisition and success.  It is expected that this role will build strong partnerships across the sales organization closely aligning goals at the account and account team level.  \nDrive joint revenue initiatives between Qualtrics and our partners including: joint sales programs, co-sponsored events, and marketing content, sales initiatives, and opportunity support.  \nWork with partners on creation of Intellectual Property and joint technology solutions.  PEM’s work with our strategic partners to blueprint things that we would do together to create differentiated market offerings.  This role will support the team’s coordination with respective teams such as Engineering, Product, Solution Advisory, Enablement, Executive leadership, Customer Success, Sales to develop, build, and launch joint solutions.  The focus here is helping to grow business through unique differentiation which makes it easier to sell. \n\nThis role will be the front end to create executive and internal alignment and operational cadence with leadership to drive joint strategic and revenue goals for both organizations. For example, which Qualtrics executives are meeting with which partner executives?  How often do they meet?  What’s the outcomes we are trying to drive?\n\n

How You’ll Grow

\n\nOpportunity and Revenue Initiatives: Work directly with these strategic partners and internal stakeholders including AE’s, CU leaders, and Executives to define and execute on broad sales plays/motions and opportunity/deal specific strategy.\nPartner Opportunity Alignment:  Identify and align Qualtrics key opportunities to partners that can help increase revenue, ensure success, or close the opportunity, by working with the respective PSM’s, CU leaders, and Qualtrics account executives.\nUnderstand and work through your partner's existing relationship and account lists and align to respective AE’s to better attack white space, expansion opportunities and close existing poor experiences.  \nAdvance inflight opportunities to drive revenue by understanding and presenting the Qualtrics/Partner value proposition to our joint customers.  Lead partner internal strategy with AE’s and PSMs’, to address opportunity approach, value proposition, key players, relationships, and deal strategies.\nOpportunity Deal Support -  Join and present on client calls as needed to help advance deals and partner alignment, value prop, and strategy and help support AE/PSM and coordinate with the partner as necessary on managing deal specifics including pricing, implementation strategy, timing, etc.\nAdvocate for partner success with AE/PSM including holding pricing thresholds to drive implementation success, driving customer lead ongoing support motions, etc.\nReseller, and OEM support as appropriate - Build and deploy GTM and provide channel sales support for partners as they begin to ramp up supporting new strategic initiatives such as reseller and OEM.  \n\n

Things You’ll Do

\n\nCollaborate with Qualtrics’ Sales Management to identify, target, and contract with partners that allow us to drive incremental revenue, value to customers, and win rates\nExceed assigned revenue quota on a quarterly and annual basis\nAs needed, negotiate new partnership agreements and go-to-market constructs\nDevelop joint success plans with partner included agreed to mutual KPIs\nProduce Monthly revenue forecasts for Ecosystem and sales leadership\nFacilitate Quarterly Business Reviews with partners & key Qualtrics stakeholders\nWhen required, onboard new partners and educate Qualtrics sales team regarding partnerships\nPartner with Qualtrics’ leadership to eliminate channel conflict and build effective rules of engagement\nTrain and influence partner sellers by refining value propositions to meet specific client needs and facilitate client introductions to Qualtrics\nBuild and maintain positive relationship with strategic partners that enable Qualtrics products to drive new revenue streams\nBuild relationships with Qualtrics’ Marketing team to develop value propositions and marketing/PR campaigns necessary to drive demand for/through channel partners\nLiaise with Qualtrics’ Legal Department to develop contracts for alliance and channel partner agreements; negotiate and finalize all partner agreements\nParticipate in industry trade shows & events\n\n

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

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You are driven, accountable and collaborative. You can make sound decisions, communicate effectively, possess financial acumen, demonstrate initiative, build realistic plans, promote teamwork, influence others and you are able to achieve great results.  You can manage a wide range of relationships from the C-level to the sales rep on the frontlines.

\n\nYou have 7+ years driving and managing tier-1 partner/alliances business initiatives within a SaaS Software environment\nYou are an expert strategic alliance leader with the ability to initiate and develop complex partnerships that deliver results\nYou have technology knowledge that helps you engage and have credibility with product groups within Qualtrics and partners up to VP/CTO level engagements\nRelevant experience working with partner sales and IT functions\nDirect SaaS Selling Experience preferred\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills and competency in communicating at an executive level\nProven track record of driving revenue and consistent attainment to quota both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year\nYou are open to travel - 25%\n4 year University Degree BA or BS is preferred\nMBA is a plus\n\n

What You Should Know About this Team

\n\nOur team is responsible for building and growing partnerships with amazing businesses that sell, deliver and service customers in the Qualtrics Ecosystem.\nThis is a global team that works with Partners in various regions.\nThis team is part of the greater Product, UX, Engineering organization.\n\n

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

\n\nQMentorship Program matches you with a mentor inside Qualtrics to get meaningful coaching from someone outside your team. \nAmazing QGroup Communities; MOSAIQ, Green Team, Qualtrics Pride, Q&Able, Qualtrics Salute, and Women’s Leadership Development, which exist as places for support, allyship, and advocacy.\n\n

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.

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Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

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​​​​​​​Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws:Family & Medical Leave Act,Equal Opportunity Employment,Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.

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For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and other benefits, based on eligibility criteria.

Remote Annual Pay Transparency Range$206,000—$375,000 USD