Partnership Alliances Director

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About Leena AI

Leena AI is a leading AI-powered enterprise automation platform that helps organizations transform

their employee and customer experiences. Our cutting-edge LLM-based solutions streamline HR, IT, and

Ops workflows—improving productivity, reducing operational load, and elevating service delivery at

scale. We recently launched AI Colleagues, a next-generation employee experience platform that moves

beyond simple chatbots to act as autonomous, specialized digital coworkers. We partner with global

enterprises to bring AI-driven automation to the center of their digital transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive Leena AI's engagement, credibility, and growth across IBM and its ecosystem.
  • Own partner-sourced pipeline as your top metric — from IBM, IBM ecosystem partners, and other
  • partnerships.
  • Collaborate across the major IBM divisions. IBM Technology (most importantly watsonx
  • Orchestrate) and IBM Consulting.
  • Map key IBM teams and build the relationships that keep Leena AI top of mind.
  • Organize and present enablement sessions for IBM sales, delivery, and other key teams.
  • Engage IBM sales teams on account strategy, mapping, and joint execution.
  • Drive Leena AI's participation in IBM user conferences and internal IBM events.
  • Build joint value propositions and co-sell plays, and recruit and activate IBM ecosystem partners.
  • Partner internally with Sales, Solution Engineering, Product, Marketing, and our Executive team.

Requirements

Requirements

  • Extensive, recent experience working with IBM — either as an IBM partner or as an IBM employee.
  • 8+ years in strategic alliances, channel, or partnerships at an enterprise SaaS or AI/tech company.
  • Proven track record of driving partner-sourced pipeline and revenue.
  • Deep understanding of co-sell and partner GTM motions in large, matrixed organizations.
  • Skilled at partner mapping, enablement, and aligning field teams on joint execution.
  • Executive presence, comfortable moving from field co-selling to leadership-level strategy.
  • Self-directed and thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
  • Valued, But Not Required
  • Experience working at IBM.
  • Experience in the HR or IT technology domain.
  • Experience with partnerships focused on agentic AI technology.

Benefits

Why Join Leena AI?

  • Work at the forefront of enterprise AI and automation with a company that is defining the trends in

this space — not following.

  • Influence how the world's biggest companies transform their employee experience.
  • Partner with a global team of innovators building industry-defining technology.
  • Be part of a dynamic, innovative, and high-growth company.
  • Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and opportunities for rapid career growth.

Before you apply

  • 1Which parts of your CV prove experience with Sales and HR?
  • 2Which recent work examples would make your application stronger for this role?
  • 3What details from the original source listing should you confirm before applying?