Position: Infrastructure Alliances Manager, Storage & Networking, VMware jobs in US
Location: US

Company:
VMware is hiring an Infrastructure Alliances Manager. Do NOT send resumes to
me. Interested and qualified candidates should apply online. We are
specifically interested in candidates with Sun Ray experience.

Job ID: 18333-VM
Job Title: Infrastructure Alliances Manager, Storage & Networking

The Storage & Networking Alliances Manager is responsible for VMware’s
partnerships with a group of storage and networking partners. S/he will be
responsible for building senior level relationships, devising alliance
strategies, and driving both technical and business initiatives that expand
VMware’s growth.

Responsibilities:
- Devise VMware’s partnering strategy with a group of storage and networking
vendors, establishing strategic goals, priorities, and programs
- Develop and manage relationships across these alliances, ensuring that
VMware and the vendors are appropriately engaged throughout all levels of
both organizations
- Ensure alignment of roadmaps and product releases, and also ensure that
the appropriate integrations between partner products and VMware products
occur. Maintain a roadmap of projects with the partners and drive them to
successful closure
- Become the business and virtual team lead for alliances, systems
engineering, and marketing investments across these partnerships
- Drive joint go-to-market activities. Working closely with VMware marketing
and the partner’s marketing teams, identify and drive a variety of joint
marketing programs: awareness, demand generation, field programs, channel
programs, and leverage the partner’s programs to drive VMware proliferation
- Identify and own licensing and/or distribution programs

Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in business development, technology alliances,
product marketing/management, or sales engineering roles in enterprise IT
technology vendors, with a principal focus in storage or networking
- Knowledge of storage and networking industries and vendor product lines
- Demonstrated effectiveness in relationship-building and influence skills
with a broad constituency ranging from Business Development to Product
Management to Engineering to Sales Leadership
- Ability to work out results-oriented win/win plans in complex, often
“co-opetitive” partnerships
- Expertise in creating, driving, and executing solutions and product
marketing for storage and networking solutions
- Demonstrated ability to enable field organizations to achieve leveraged,
repeatable sales wins, as well as skills in gaining follower-ship from
sales, marketing and other alliance functions
- Crisp and effective communicator who can work well within extended teams
- B.S. degree in a technical discipline required. MBA is a plus

Contact:
Go to
vmware.com/company/jobs/openings/