Director, Strategic Cloud Partnerships

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Your opportunity

As the Director of Strategic Cloud Partnerships at New Relic you will lead New Relics relationships with AWS Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. This is a high-impact role that combines business development with complex commercial negotiation and go-to-market leverage. Reporting to the VP Ecosystem and Strategic Partnerships you will be the primary architect of these partnerships ensuring that our cloud infrastructure spend translates into strategic leverage better margins and accelerated market growth.

Your responsibilities include engaging with C-level executives integrating partner product integration and go-to-market strategies and creating frameworks to optimize outcomes for New Relic as well as customer value. You will partner closely with executive cross-functional leadership including co-sell and co-marketing efforts led separately by the go-to-market organization to ensure that the companys strategic engagements with cloud partners address the companys objectives across the areas of engineering product finance procurement contracting marketing sales enablement and services.

What youll do

Strategic Partner Management

• Partnership Strategy: Define and evolve the strategy for how New Relic wins with AWS Azure and GCP.
• Execution Alignment:Serve as the primary face of New Relic to cloud partner leadership; lead QBRs and Executive Briefing sessions to ensure top-to-bottom alignment.
• Joint Business Plan and GTM Integration: Lead the annual global business plans; partner with Sales and Marketing to ensure our cloud relationships are fueling our co-sell engine and market expansion. Lead the development of Better-Together content use cases and customer win stories.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Orchestrate a One New Relic approach across Product Engineering and Marketing to ensure we are building for and selling with the hyperscalers latest innovations.
• Performance Governance: Establish operating cadences and dashboards to track the health funding and strategic impact of each partnership.

Commercial Negotiations & Cloud Spend Oversight

• Strategic Negotiations: Lead the commercial negotiations of major cloud agreements and GTM partnership agreements.
• Spend Management: Maintain a deep understanding of our cloud infrastructure costs and consumption patterns to inform negotiation strategy and commercial terms.
• Financial Partnership: Work closely with FinOps and Finance to review cost models and consumption forecasts ensuring our contracts reflect business needs.

Who You Are:

• A Strategic Orchestrator: You excel at moving organizations towards a shared goal. You know how to navigate the large complex organizations of the hyperscalers to get executive sponsorship and get things done.
• GTM Minded: You understand how cloud marketplaces and co-sell programs work to accelerate New Relic revenue.
• Commercially Sharp: You have deal teeth. You understand the levers of a cloud contract and how to work for New Relics interests during negotiations.

This role requires

• 10 years in Cloud Partner Management Business Development or Product Management.
• Cloud Knowledge: Deep understanding of the cloud ecosystem (AWS Azure GCP) and the SaaS market.
• Negotiation Track Record: Proven experience leading the negotiation of at least one major cloud agreement.
• Ability to Execute: Proven ability to translate strategic objectives into executable plans with strong analytical and project management skills.

Bonus points if you have

• Knowledge of observability AI and Agentic AI.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.



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