Director of Channel Sales, International
SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s best-loved brands include Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit.At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.Director of Channel Sales, International SmartBear is seeking a results orientated Channel Sales leader to grow partner sales efforts in EMEA and manage a Channel Sales Managers in India and APAC. Based in our Galway, Ireland office, you will be responsible for building and growing a network of channel partners to drive significant software sales growth. You will be the internal leader of the channel sales activity providing advocacy and strategy for the business across the direct sales organization, marketing, support, finance and legal. Reporting the the SVP of Global Channel Partnerships, your leadership and insight will identify new opportunities and refine existing partnerships to maximize current business and growth potential. Key Responsibilities Partnership Management & Development: Develop and execute a comprehensive channel strategy for the EMEA region, managing, identifying and recruiting high-growth partners with strong industry relationships. In addition, you will be the International lead for our growing and strategic go-to-market partnership with AWS. Manage partner lifecycle in region and across international regions including: Negotiate and manage partner agreements, ensuring alignment with company goals and objectives. Onboard and enable new partners, providing training, marketing materials, and ongoing support to equip them for success. Drive partner sales performance through joint business planning, lead&nbs...