Head of Partnerships EMEA

About Glean:

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors flexible LLM choice and robust APIs Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern scale and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core Glean is redefining how enterprises find use and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people content and activity delivering deeply personalized context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys broadest range of data: enterprise and world structured and unstructured historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding hours of productivity gained each week and smarter safer decisions at every level.

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.

About the Role:

Glean is seeking a dynamic and strategic partnerships leader to join our global partnerships team and help build a thriving partner ecosystem that delivers and scales a best-in-class customer experience with the worlds leading AI-powered work assistant. As a founding member of the EMEA GTM Partnerships team you will play a pivotal role in driving our partnership priorities across the enterprise search and generative AI landscape by cultivating deep relationships with top Channel Cloud GSI and ISV partners.

In this role you will lead the strategic planning and execution of cross-functional initiatives to achieve both sales and partnership goalsworking closely with EMEA VARs Resellers SI GSIs Consulting Firms Cloud and ISV partners. Youll collaborate with teams across Product Engineering and Go-To-Market to deliver impactful product partnership and marketing launches.

The ideal candidate has a strong sales/GTM background and a proven record scaling partnerships in highgrowth environments. Theyve led GTM partnerships endtoendtopdown strategy sales campaigns enablement partner services pipeline growth partnerattached closures and GTM executionacross EMEA and all partner types.

You will:

• Develop and manage our execution with EMEA GTM partners including understanding their business goals needs and our joint value proposition. Drive top of funnel and demand gen activities with partners in conjunction with Gleans marketing teams; build and manage a co-sell motion with partners in conjunction with Gleans Account Executives; and deepen our partnerships by identifying new joint opportunities.
• Help us prioritize a set of Tier 1 partners across VAR Cloud GSI and ISV partners; all team members must be strong generalists at this time given our teams and partner programs maturity.
• Collaborate with partners to develop and execute joint go-to-market plans including joint product development co-sell campaigns marketing activities and customer engagements.
• Work closely with sales marketing product and engineering teams to align partner strategies with company objectives and execute seamlessly across all functions and operating styles.
• Ensure that partner-driven projects are delivered successfully and that customers derive value from our solutions.
• Track and report on key performance metrics such as net new meetings opportunities partner revenue and partner funnel and make data-driven recommendations for improvements.
• Stay current on market trends competitor activities and emerging technologies to identify new opportunities for partnerships and growth.
• Work with our Partner Ops Enablement team to ensure that our partners have the necessary training resources and support to effectively sell and implement our product.

About you:

• 10 years of industry experience within partnerships/alliances primarily in a sales capacity
• 5 years of direct sales/channel sales experience within the data cloud or SaaS space
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time
• Bachelors degree with MBA preferred.
• A strategic and structured thinker who enjoys building new processes relationships and revenue streams while setting and driving towards long-term goals
• Resourceful and creative in order to effectively and efficiently build new processes and improve existing ones
• Collaborative and eager to develop partner relationships and execute cross-functional teamwork in person or virtually
• Thoughtful about strategy and metrics paired with the ability to hustle and execute
• Knowledgeable about the enterprise SaaS sales motion and how to make partners successful in replicating that when selling Glean
• Able to design and present business plans track and improve partner progress and communicate effectively both internally and externally
• Comfortable working with globally distributed teams

Location:

• This role is remote

Compensation & Benefits:

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level job-related knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.

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