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Braze

Customer engagement platform for cross-channel messaging

Senior Partner Account Director - Technology Partnerships, AWS

Business Development & PartnershipsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAustin, TX, USA$151k - $238k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience within the SaaS or technology ecosystem.
  • At least 3 years of Partnerships experience.
  • Experience partnering with or working at major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) or multinational technology enterprises on high-impact strategic initiatives.
  • A track record of managing strategic partners at a $1B+ revenue-generating organization, including joint investment frameworks, co-innovation, and milestone delivery.
  • Experience taking strategic projects from ideation through execution.
  • An established network within the AWS community.
  • Deep familiarity with AWS, including its go-to-market organization (PDMs, PSMs, and ISV teams), partner programs (APN, ISV Accelerate, and Marketplace), and how enterprise customers buy and expand on AWS.
  • A strong understanding of the customer engagement platform landscape and how cloud infrastructure intersects with marketing technology.
  • Experience driving AWS Marketplace as a commercial channel, including private offers, CPPO, co-sell motions, and EDP/PPA burn-down dynamics.
  • Understanding of AWS co-sell mechanics, including ACE pipeline sharing and opportunity registration, and how to operationalize them at scale.
  • Familiarity with AWS's AI/ML and data stack, including Bedrock, SageMaker, Redshift, S3, and zero-copy patterns, and where it intersects with customer engagement.
  • Experience building joint go-to-market with AWS industry verticals (retail/CPG, media, and financial services) and regional field teams.
  • A track record of securing executive alignment across partner and internal stakeholders, including C-suite engagement and governance model design.
  • Experience working with product and engineering teams to align on integration priorities and advance a technically grounded partnership roadmap.
  • Ability to operate independently in a strategic, first-in-kind capacity and embed partnership priorities into broader company-wide go-to-market motions.
  • Comfort operating across AWS's scale and internal complexity, navigating multiple organizations (service teams, partner organization, and field) to get decisions made.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive Braze's global strategy for the AWS technology partnership, shaping the joint partnership vision over the next 2–3 years, identifying structural growth opportunities within the AWS ecosystem, and aligning executive stakeholders around shared commercial objectives.
  • Shape how Braze engages AWS, influence product and integration priorities, and ensure the partnership delivers sustained ecosystem impact by collaborating with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams at Braze and AWS.
  • Identify market pain points, ecosystem shifts, and structural growth opportunities within the AWS ecosystem; develop a global partnership strategy that drives pipeline, product alignment, and long-term commercial expansion.
  • Lead execution of the Braze–AWS Strategic Collaboration Agreement through steering committees, QBRs, executive sponsorship cadences, and milestone tracking, ensuring both organizations deliver on multi-year commitments.
  • Set the forward partnership plan across integration priorities, co-sell targets, Marketplace revenue, and joint AI initiatives, and sequence the work required to deliver it.
  • Lead senior executive meetings with AWS and Braze leadership to establish shared objectives, long-term commitments, and governance structures that ensure sustained execution.
  • Set the strategic direction for the AWS partnership and leverage Braze cross-functional teams to execute consistently and accountably.
  • Collaborate with Braze and AWS product and engineering leadership to influence roadmap direction, integration development, and joint solution design aligned to customer and ecosystem needs, including the intersection of AWS's AI/ML and data stack with customer engagement.
  • Define measurable goals for partner-sourced pipeline, revenue influence, Marketplace transactions, and ecosystem expansion, and hold both sides accountable for delivering them.
  • Work with Braze Sales leadership and regional PAMs to embed the AWS partnership into active deal cycles; operationalize co-sell mechanics (ACE pipeline sharing and opportunity registration), Marketplace private offers, and EDP burn-down positioning; and translate partnership momentum into pipeline and revenue.
  • Represent Braze as a strategic ambassador for the partnership internally and externally, including at re:Invent, AWS summits, and partner advisory forums, positioning Braze as AWS's preferred customer engagement platform partner.

About the Company

Braze

Customer engagement platform for cross-channel messaging

Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands build ongoing relationships with customers by coordinating real-time, cross-channel messages across email, push, in-app, SMS, and more. It collects data from any source, segments audiences, and orchestrates customer journeys so the right message reaches the right person at the right time. It also uses AI-powered experimentation and optimization to test and improve campaigns. Braze differentiates itself with a data-driven, multi-channel approach and a strong emphasis on journey orchestration and real-time engagement, serving a wide range of clients from small businesses to large enterprises and operating globally. Its goal is to enable brands to deliver relevant, personalized experiences at scale, across channels, to drive lasting customer relationships.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2011

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