Vice President, Business Development

Saviynt's AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organization's applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI. Saviynt is recognized as the leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. For more information, please visit www.saviynt.com. Reporting to the SVP Global Partners & Channel Chief, the VP of APJ Partnerships and Channels will serve as the leader for the APJ Partner organization and represent Saviynt with key partner/alliance relationships across APJ. This role will be responsible for driving the strategy and execution of the APJ partner business and initiatives and will ensure short and long-term expansion, including setting the strategic direction to meet revenue goals, while identifying and pursuing new partner streams and routes to market in conjunction with the APJ Sales Leadership Team. Saviynt has a partner-first culture and views our partner community as an extension of the company. The growth and advancement of our partner organization is a key driver to the success of the company. This role needs a strong, experienced leader that will take our APJ partner organization to the next level. The next generation of Identity Security requires partners that can deliver on the transformation necessary to improve a customers Identity security posture across many different identity types and integrations. Driving Saviynt’s growth strategy through these partners is a critical element of this role. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING: Lead the APJ Partner organization to drive growth with identified top-tier partner alliances. This will include the nurturing and development of new alliance partners into the core network. Lead by the numbers in a purposeful way. Assess and improve upon current engagement processes, methodologies, structure, and associated discipline. Create and execute short- and long-term partner plans, including strategies, programs, goals, quotas, tracking mechanisms, and analytics. The ultimate goal is to build a highly metric-driven and predictable team. Propose & implement necessary adjustments to optimize performance and build/refine the infrastructure to facilitate ambitious & exciting growth. Manage a team across multiple geographies including team structure, hiring, performance assessment, coaching and feedback, team succession planning, and training. Work closely with Executive Leaders, Sales, Marketing, Enablement and the Product Organizations to create a strong and collaborative partnership that will ensure success in competitive positioning, market awareness, and execution. Assess and improve upon current engagement processes, methodologies, structure, and associated discipline. Create and execute short and long-term partner plans, including strategies, programs, goals, quotas, tracking mechanisms, and analytics. Drive partner director alignment in the regional APJ sales teams. Participate in the sales opportunity reviews and reach out and collaborate with the Partner Directors, Regional Sales VPs and Account Executives. Use experience and creativity to create, analyze and execute lead-generation programs across all partner types. WHAT YOU BRING: Minimum 15 years of Enterprise Sales experience with a compelling and verifiable track record of success managing and building/scaling a critical partner organization. Previous experience as SVP, GM, or VP for a high-growth enterprise SaaS software company. Highly instrumented and analytic executive for the enterprise in multiple verticals. Process-driven with the ability to use a quantitative approach to apply business insights to partner sales. A dynamic executive with the ability to strategically build innovative models combined with the tactical ability to execute. Has seen a growth journey but has the ability to scale down. A strong leader & motivator with proven success in building a world-class sales team with proven, repeatable methodologies. Ability to lead and serve in a hands-on capacity on projects as well as serve as the connective tissue between Revenue Org, marketing, and customer success. Strong knowledge of the partner landscape by region/country with special emphasis on Japan, ASEAN, and India. Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. Willingness and ability to travel, both domestically and internationally. Inspirational leadership, strong executive presence. Successful leadership track record in overachieving business goals and quota attainment success. Ability to envision, develop, document and execute partner plans through a geographically dispersed partner and sales team. Demonstrated ability to build, lead and coach an APJ partner sales team. Experience negotiating complex commercial deals, including services, reseller, and co-sell agreements. The ability to collect information and identify fundamental patterns/trends in data. This includes the ability to gather, integrate, and interpret information from several sources. The ability to build trusting, collaborative relationships and rapport with different types of people and businesses. This includes delivering on commitments and maintaining confidential information, as well as being approachable, showing interest in the other person, and relating well to people regardless of personality or background. Ability to assess the current network of Partners and evaluate net-new relationships, make recommendations and execute against those recommendations.