AVP Partner Sales
Braze · Chicago ·
- Category
- Sales
- Experience
- 7+ years
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If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you.
Area Vice President, Partner Sales – AMERICAS
Based in New York, Chicago, Austin, or San Francisco · Reports to SVP, Partnerships · Scope: AMER + LATAM
The Role
The best software companies don’t grow through direct sales alone. They grow through ecosystems: networks of partners who extend their reach, deepen customer relationships, and deliver outcomes no single company can achieve alone.
Braze is building that ecosystem, and AMER and LATAM together are where a significant share of it plays out. Partner-engaged opportunities at Braze close at a significant multiple of the rate and deal size of direct-only deals, and Channel partnerships extend Braze’s commercial reach into markets and segments our direct teams cannot cover alone.
As AVP, Partner Sales AMER, you own the full partner sales motion across AMER and LATAM – both direct and indirect. This is a true ownership role: you set the regional strategy for how Braze goes to market through partners across both motions, define how the function operates across two markets at very different stages of maturity, and are accountable for the commercial outcomes whether they flow through co-sell or an indirect ecosystem route to market. You report to the SVP, Partnerships and operate as a peer to the VP Sales for AMER and the VP Sales for LATAM, embedding partner-led as a structural part of how those revenue teams operate and succeed.
What You’ll Own
A regional team spanning direct partner sales and indirect channel:
- Partner Sales Managers – covering Enterprise, General Business, Commercial, and LATAM segments. The direct co-sell motion with Delivery, Technology, and Marketplace partners.
- Reseller Sales Managers – driving the indirect ecosystem motions and book of business across the region, including ACV and GRR targets.
- Two markets, one operating model – AMER is a mature, direct-led market; LATAM is earlier-stage and more reliant on indirect coverage. You set a consistent playbook while adapting how it’s applied in each, and you’re equally comfortable operating in both.
- Platinum-tier partner relationships – Leveraging Partner Account Directors’ development of our strategic partners including Deloitte, Accenture, WPP, Publicis, and Merkle, by building and maintaining senior relationships relevant to your region.
- Pipeline and performance visibility – using Salesforce, Crossbeam, Tackle, Clari, and Looker to track partner engagement and impact, and report on performance to senior leadership.
What This Role Is Really About
Pipeline and partner-sourced ACV are outcomes. They are the measure of a healthy region, not the strategy itself.
The real work is building a partner bench across AMER and LATAM where the right technology, marketplace, and delivery partner is activated on the right account, on the right opportunity, at the right moment, and where every partner-led engagement reflects well on Braze. It’s a partner strategy and plan that holds up under pressure. It’s a reseller program with real governance and discipline. It’s giving VP Sales leaders in two different markets a reason to build their forecast on the partner motion, not around it.
When a deal closes with a partner in your region, that partner is carrying Braze’s brand. This role sets the standard for what that means in AMER and LATAM.
How We Lead at Braze
- Charts Strategic Transformation – You define the partner sales strategy for two markets at different stages of maturity, make the call on where direct and indirect motions should lead, and build the operating model and playbooks where none exist today.
- Drives High Performance – You lead a blended team of Partner Sales Managers and Reseller Sales Managers with clear targets, direct performance management, and consistent accountability across both motions.
- Forges Collaborative Relationships – You operate as a true peer to VP Sales AMER and VP Sales LATAM, embedded in their pipeline reviews, forecasts, and QBRs, and you build the senior ecosystem relationships that make the strategy real and actionable.
- Communicates with Impact – You translate a two-market, direct and indirect route to market partnership strategy into a playbook your team, Sales leadership, and the SVP, Partnerships can all act on.
Who You Are
- 15+ years in partner sales, alliances, or channel sales in B2B SaaS, with at least 7-8 years at Senior Director or AVP level – you’ve owned a multi-regional revenue number spanning both direct co-sell and indirect motions, and can speak clearly to the commercial outcomes you drove across both
- Demonstrated experience operating as a peer to VP-level Sales leadership – you can point to how you changed the way a VP or Sales AVP thought about the partner motion
- Proven track record leading Channel Sales teams: managing Reseller Sales Managers, holding indirect revenue targets, and building or rebuilding reseller programs including tiering, rules of engagement, and enablement
- Comfortable operating across markets at different stages of maturity – you know how to run a disciplined, direct-led co-selling motion in AMER while building indirect coverage in an earlier-stage market like LATAM, and you don’t treat either as an afterthought
- Experience working across partner types – Agency/SI/Delivery, Technology (cloud hyperscalers, ISVs), and Channel/VAR – you understand the different commercial models and manage them simultaneously without conflict
- Demonstrated ability to define rules of engagement between direct and indirect sales motions and resolve channel conflict before it costs you a deal or a relationship
- MarTech or adjacent SaaS ecosystem knowledge strongly preferred, with an emphasis on how composable tech stacks create partnership opportunities
- Comfortable using account mapping tools such as Crossbeam or equivalent to prioritize co-sell motions
- Energized by owning something that isn’t fully built yet, with a track record of creating operating models and playbooks from scratch
For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $163,000 and $256,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $271,000 and $426,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.
WHAT WE OFFER
Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each country at here. More details on benefits plans will be provided if you receive an offer of employment.
From offering comprehensive benefits to fostering hybrid ways of working, we've got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony. Braze offers benefits such as:
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
- A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation
- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
- Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
ABOUT BRAZE
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™ Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.
The company has repeatedly been recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was voted a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2025.
Braze was also named a 2025 Best Companies To Work For by U.S. News and World Report, a 2025 America’s Greatest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®, among other accolades. Braze is also proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
The company is headquartered in New York with offices in Austin, Berlin, Bucharest, Chicago, Dubai, Jakarta, London, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.
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