Director, Strategic Partner Sales

Pharos Systems International Inc • Rochester, NY

2d • $190,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for someone to build and own our relationships with a strategic hardware partner's enterprise sales force directly. This is a hybrid role: part solutions engineer, part relationship builder, part quiet marketer for our product inside someone else's sales conversations. Most of the work is earning trust with people who owe us nothing, one relationship at a time, until reaching for us becomes their default.

This is not a role with a team under you, and it is not a role where you own or control the deal. You will operate inside someone else's sales process, with real access to and a real say in how this partnership gets built, but the win is measured by what the partner's sellers do, not by what you personally close.

You don't have to be the deepest technical expert in the building. Pharos already has that depth on staff, and it's a resource you can pull into the room for the rare question that goes past your depth. What you need is enough technical credibility to carry the conversation yourself most of the time, and the judgment and honesty to know the moment to bring in backup instead of guessing.

Requirements

• Has sold or supported software through a partner or channel relationship, not only direct to the end buyer
• Has carried a book of relationships that ranged from small, quick wins to large, complex, seven-figure deals, not only one or the other
• Has built at least one significant relationship completely from scratch, with no inherited book of business and no warm introduction
• Comfortable being the one who answers the hard technical question in front of a sophisticated buyer, and equally comfortable with the unglamorous relationship-nurturing work in between those moments
• Has a marketing instinct: knows how to position a product's value in the language of the person selling it, not just the language of the person who built it
• You can hold your own in a technical conversation with a skeptical, sophisticated buyer, then hand the win back to the partner's rep without a second thought.
• You know the difference between holding your own and pretending to know something you don't, and you've said “let me get you the right person” in front of a customer without it costing you any credibility.
• You have grown a relationship you already had into something bigger, not just landed a brand new one, and that kind of win satisfies you as much as a fresh close would.
• You think like a marketer as much as a seller: you know how to frame a product's value in someone else's words, not just your own.
• You have supported someone else's sale before, technically or strategically, and you were genuinely fine being the reason it worked without being the name on the deal.
• You have walked away from a deal that was not right, and you can talk honestly about what that cost you.

Nice To Haves

• Not a good fit if: you need to own and close the deal yourself, or need public credit, for the work to feel like it's yours.
• Strong fit if: you would rather be the reason a deal closes cleanly than the one running it, and you're fine if the partner takes the bow.

Responsibilities

• Direct, ongoing relationships with the specific enterprise sellers at a strategic hardware partner who decide whether our software gets attached to their deals
• A tiered, visible map of that seller network: who is already warm, who is attaching a competitor, who has gone quiet, and a real plan for each
• Trust with the partner's sales organization broad enough that sellers recommend us to each other, not just work with us themselves
• Deals that range from modest attach revenue to seven-figure enterprise wins, all sourced or carried through the same relationships
• The proof point for whether this model is worth building a team around

Benefits

• $190,000–$200,000 OTE (base + matching variable). If your background clearly goes beyond what this role typically requires, we structure some offers above this band for the right experience.
• Fully remote (United States)
• Direct access to the VP of Sales and real influence over how this partnership is built
• An established, growing partnership with one of the largest names in enterprise technology
• Recognized as a Great Benefits employer by Mployer
• Named a Top Place to Work by USA Today

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed