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Observe.AI

AI-powered analytics for customer interactions

GSI Partner Lead

Business Development & PartnershipsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • 6–10 years of experience in strategic partnerships, alliances, channel sales, business development, or partner management.
  • Demonstrated experience building a GSI, channel, or strategic partner program from scratch, preferably in a startup, scale-up, or high-growth technology company.
  • Proven experience working directly with Global System Integrators such as Genpact, Infosys, Cognizant, TCS, Wipro, Capgemini, or similar organizations.
  • A track record of converting partnerships into pipeline, revenue, or measurable business outcomes.
  • Strong understanding of partner-led go-to-market, co-selling, partner enablement, joint account planning, and channel development.
  • Experience creating partnership frameworks, playbooks, enablement programs, and operating mechanisms rather than simply managing an established program.
  • Strong commercial orientation and ability to understand revenue targets, pipeline, partner contribution, and business economics.
  • Communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging operational teams and senior executives.
  • Executive presence, professional body language, and ability to build credibility quickly with external partners.
  • Hands-on, self-starter mindset, bias toward action, and ability to unblock independently without heavy reliance on other teams.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and building structure where processes do not yet exist.
  • Demonstrated grit, resilience, ownership, and desire to build and win.
  • Willingness to travel as required for partner meetings, customer engagements, and industry events.

Responsibilities

  • Build GSI partnerships from 0 to 1 by identifying target partners, developing relationships, defining engagement models, and establishing joint business plans.
  • Develop and execute a GSI partner strategy aligned with revenue and market expansion objectives.
  • Build relationships with senior stakeholders across GSIs, including Accenture, Infosys, Genpact, TCS, Wipro, and similar global consulting and system integration organizations.
  • Identify opportunities to expand partner relationships across geographies, accounts, and solution areas.
  • Establish the operating rhythm, governance, key performance indicators, and processes required to scale the GSI program.
  • Develop joint go-to-market motions with GSI partners that generate qualified pipeline and revenue.
  • Identify target accounts and opportunities where partners can influence, originate, or accelerate business.
  • Work with Sales teams to develop joint account strategies and drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities.
  • Build and execute partner enablement programs, including sales training, product demonstrations, workshops, and solution positioning.
  • Create partner-facing business cases, pitch materials, solution collateral, and other assets to activate the ecosystem.
  • Track partner pipeline, revenue contribution, engagement, and other key performance indicators; use data to identify gaps and improve performance.
  • Act as day-to-day business owner for assigned GSI relationships and execute partnership activities directly.
  • Conduct partner meetings, workshops, enablement sessions, and business reviews.
  • Demonstrate products, explain value propositions, and help partners position Observe.AI with their customers.
  • Proactively identify and remove blockers across Sales, Marketing, Product, and other internal teams.
  • Build relationships across partner organizations, from practitioners and delivery teams to sales leaders and executives.
  • Develop repeatable frameworks for partner onboarding, enablement, opportunity identification, deal registration, pipeline tracking, and joint business planning.
  • Establish dashboards and reporting to measure partner performance and return on investment.
  • Document learnings and continuously improve the GSI engagement model.
  • Help define the broader channel strategy as the partner ecosystem scales.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in AI, software as a service, CCaaS, contact center, conversational AI, or enterprise technology is strongly preferred.

About the Company

Observe.AI

AI-powered analytics for customer interactions

Starting summary generation.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Series C
Total funding
$223.3M
Headquarters
Redwood City, CA
Founded
2017

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