Head of Partnerships, Glean
EMEA
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Enterprise search and knowledge management
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Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a strong sales/GTM background and a proven record scaling partnerships in high‑growth environments
- 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
- Bachelor’s 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
What the job involves
- 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 world’s 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 goals—working closely with EMEA VARs, Resellers, SI, GSIs, Consulting Firms, Cloud and ISV partners
- You’ll collaborate with teams across Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market to deliver impactful product, partnership, and marketing launches
- They’ve led GTM partnerships end‑to‑end—top‑down strategy, sales campaigns, enablement, partner services, pipeline growth, partner‑attached closures, and GTM execution—across EMEA and all partner types
- 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 Glean’s marketing teams; build and manage a co-sell motion with partners in conjunction with Glean’s 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 team’s and partner program’s 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. Its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$150m
SERIES F
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Total funding: $805m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- 401k contribution
- Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
- Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
- Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development stipend
- Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Is the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
Piyush Prahladka
(Software Engineer)Prior to joining the co-founding team at Glean, they worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, then as an Engineering Lead at Uber.
Tony Gentilcore
(Product Engineering Lead)Former Developer at At&T and TJC Labs. For ten years, served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, including a spell as Founder and Tech Lead / Manager of the Chrome Speed Team.
TR Vishwanath
(Engineering Lead)Before co-founding Glean, was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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