Global Alliance Director

Cato Networks
London, United Kingdom
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Alliance professionals with cloud marketplace expertise and EMEA-based experience will find this hands-on, revenue-focused role in a fast-growing tech space.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with proven alliance experience in cybersecurity and cloud ecosystems like AWS and CrowdStrike
    — “Experience working with AWS alliance teams and an established network in the AWS ecosystem”
  • Individuals who can balance proactive business development with partnership management and execution
    — “Drive joint pipeline generation with AWS and CrowdStrike across EMEA, combining partner account management with proactive business development”
  • Professionals with a strong understanding of cloud marketplace transaction processes and their commercial implications
    — “Practical experience with cloud marketplace transactions and the ability to explain their value and process to sales teams”

Things to consider

  • Significant travel commitment required, with initial periods demanding more than 50% travel time
    — “Availability for regular travel across EMEA, expected to be around 50%”
  • This role is not for those seeking a management position, but for individual contributors with direct accountability
    — “senior, hands-on individual contributor role, not a people-management position”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to execute joint activities and generate pipeline with specific alliance examples
    — “Plan and execute joint partner and customer activities, including roundtables, events and enablement sessions, with pipeline generation as the goal”
  • Emphasize your hands-on experience in driving revenue through cloud alliances, not just managing relationships
    — “Own revenue targets and activity-based objectives for your partnerships”
  • Demonstrate your ability to formalize and scale new alliances with measurable outcomes
    — “Help formalize our fast-growing technological alliances and partnerships with peer security vendors”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • joint pipeline growth
  • commercial success
  • marketplace transactions
Typical background
salesalliance managementbusiness development

Skills & requirements

Required

Alliance ManagementPipeline GenerationCloud Marketplace TransactionsJoint ActivitiesRevenue TargetsCommercial Outcomes

Preferred

AWS MarketplaceCrowdstrikeCybersecurity Alliances

Stack & domain

Alliance ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCloud MarketplaceAWS MarketplaceCrowdstrikeRoundtablesEventsEnablement SessionsRevenue GrowthCommercial OutcomesProduct AlliancesProduct MarketingField MarketingSales EngineeringCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingOrganizational SkillsTime ManagementRejection CopingCloud NetworkingSecurityEnterprise NetworkingSASEMarketplace Transactions

About the role

Original posting from Cato Networks

Welcome to the future of cloud networking and security!  

Cato Networks is the first company to converge enterprise networking and security into one centralized and global service that is delivered by cloud. It is led by networking and security pioneer Shlomo Kramer (Check Point, Imperva) and early investor (Palo Alto Networks, Exabeam, Trusteer and more). Cato’s unique technology inspired a brand-new product category, later named “SASE” by Gartner and a market expected to reach $28.5 billion by 2028.

This is your opportunity to get on the rocket ship and join a company that is building a cutting-edge enterprise network and secure cloud platform, and is on a fast track to becoming the worldwide market leader – don’t miss it!

Join Cato Networks to turn our AWS and CrowdStrike alliances into joint pipeline across EMEA. You'll work directly with alliance partners and our regional sales teams to identify opportunities, organise joint activities and drive revenue. For the first 12 to 18 months, approximately 90% of your time will focus on AWS and CrowdStrike, with other alliances potentially added as they develop. 

This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role, not a people-management position. You'll own partnership-specific targets and be accountable for commercial results, rather than focusing solely on relationship management or enablement. The preferred location is the UK, close to the sales and marketing colleagues you'll work with. 

Responsibilities 

Drive joint pipeline generation with AWS and CrowdStrike across EMEA, combining partner account management with proactive business development. 

Build relationships with alliance teams and Cato's regional sales organisation, turning those relationships into joint opportunities.  

You will play a critical role in building our cloud marketplace activities from the ground up, accelerating growth and win rates across Cato’s global sales organization.    

You will also help formalize our fast-growing technological alliances and partnerships with peer security vendors. 

Help sales teams understand and use AWS Marketplace to transact, drawing on practical knowledge of how marketplace deals work. 

Plan and execute joint partner and customer activities, including roundtables, events and enablement sessions, with pipeline generation as the goal. 

Own revenue targets and activity-based objectives for your partnerships, including objectives where revenue attribution is less straightforward. 

Work with product alliances, product marketing, field marketing and regional sales teams, using existing content, playbooks and sales engineering support to deliver joint activities. 

Requirements 

Experience in alliances, with a track record of generating pipeline and driving commercial outcomes through partners. 

Practical experience with cloud marketplace transactions and the ability to explain their value and process to sales teams. AWS Marketplace experience is preferred; relevant Azure Marketplace experience is also welcome. 

A proactive business development approach: you're comfortable finding opportunities, mobilising partners and sales teams, and being accountable for a number. 

The ability to build productive relationships across partner organisations and internal commercial teams. 

Availability for regular travel across EMEA, expected to be around 50%, with more travel initially as you establish relationships and activities. 

Additional experience we value: 

Experience working with AWS alliance teams and an established network in the AWS ecosystem. 

Experience with CrowdStrike or similar technology alliances. 

Alliances experience in cybersecurity. 

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Source: Cato Networks careers

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