Senior Partner Development Manager, AI Ecosystem
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Salesforce scores A on the Alion truth index.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword - it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
AI agents are changing how enterprise software is built and bought. A new generation of AI-native companies is building the agents, models and tools that businesses will run on, and to scale they need trusted customer data, enterprise distribution and governance. Salesforce is well placed to provide all three. Our platform holds the customer data and workflows of more than 150,000 companies. With AIforce, our platform for building AI agents, and Headless 360, which gives any AI agent secure access to Salesforce data and actions, that data can power agents whether they run inside Salesforce or on another platform. We are building the AI partner ecosystem for this next era, and we want an AI ecosystem builder to lead it outside the US.
You will be the first dedicated AI ecosystem partner development manager for our international markets, working alongside a Partner Development Manager who builds the volume side of the partner portfolio. You will find the AI-native companies that matter most to enterprise customers, recruit them as partners, and structure agreements that work for both sides, from fast onboarding to multi-year commercial deals. The partners you sign in your first year will form the foundation of the ecosystem. This is a build role: there is no existing territory, partner book or pipeline to inherit. You will create the target list, pipeline and operating rhythm from scratch, and you will do the work yourself, from cold outreach to closing deals.
What you will do
Build, recruit and close strategic AI partnerships
- Build a portfolio of strategic AI partners outside the US from zero, and run every deal yourself, from cold outreach to signed agreement and live integration.
- Own your opportunities in Salesforce and run commercial negotiations with high-value partners through to signature.
- Build joint value propositions with partner product and executive teams, including how their product works alongside Salesforce's own AI products.
- Assess each partner's strategic position and shape the deal to match.
- Work with the Partner Solutions team to close them.
- After signing, run each strategic partnership: joint plans, customer adoption and quarterly business reviews.
Build and source the pipeline
- Prospect yourself every week through cold calls, cold emails and LinkedIn outreach, as well as through venture capital firms, accelerators and founder communities.
- Recruit partners onto AIforce and AgentExchange (our marketplace for AI agents and agent actions), and onboard them through our partner programme.
- Find companies already integrating with Salesforce, including through Headless 360 and our Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and convert those relationships into governed commercial partnerships.
Shape the commercial model and go to market
- Help design new commercial models as the platform evolves
- Build co-sell motions with Salesforce's regional sales teams so partner solutions appear in customer deals, and track partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline.
- Bring partners to market: joint customer stories, AgentExchange listings and events such as Dreamforce and World Tours.
- Bring partner and customer feedback to Salesforce product teams to shape the AIforce and Headless 360 roadmap.
Build the programme and work across Salesforce
- Work alongside the Partner Development Manager, AI Ecosystem, and help set the recruitment approach and onboarding playbook for the wider partner portfolio.
- Work with Salesforce account executives, solution engineers, product, legal and alliances teams, and with US business development counterparts.
- Keep an accurate pipeline in Salesforce and report progress, risks and market signals to leadership.
What you will bring
- ISV partnership experience: 7+ years (or equivalent experience) in partnerships or business development, recruiting software companies onto a platform or marketplace, negotiating partner agreements, and running integration, listing and co-sell programmes.
- AI partnership expertise: at least 3 of those years leading partnerships with AI-native companies building agents, models or AI developer tools, at an AI lab, an AI-native ISV or platform, or a hyperscaler's AI partner team. You can name the ISV and AI partnerships you closed.
- Working knowledge of how AI agents are built and connected: LLMs, agent orchestration, tool calling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar integration standards. You can hold a credible technical conversation with a startup CTO.
- Experience structuring partner economics for AI products: consumption or usage-based pricing, marketplace revenue share, or paid access to tools and APIs.
- Experience building a partner ecosystem or programme from an early stage, not only managing established relationships.
- An existing network in the AI startup and scale-up community outside the US, including founders, product leaders, venture capital firms and accelerators.
- Comfortable with data: you build and maintain your own pipeline and partner performance reporting.
- A hands-on, self-starting approach: you prospect, run and close deals yourself, with little structure around you, across several countries and cultures.
- Executive presence: you can lead a negotiation with a founder or CEO and present a business case to senior Salesforce leaders.
- Clear written communication, including deal memos and business cases for senior leaders.
Nice to have
- Experience with the Salesforce ecosystem: AppExchange, ISV partner programmes or AIforce.
- Background at a hyperscaler, AI platform company or AI-native startup.
- Technical background (engineering, product management or solutions engineering) or hands-on experience building with AI agents, MCP servers or developer tools.
- Experience co-selling with the field sales teams of a hyperscaler or SaaS platform.
- Experience in conversational or voice AI, workflow automation, data providers or developer tools.
- Familiarity with the regulation shaping enterprise AI adoption, such as GDPR and EU data residency, the EU AI Act, and requirements in regulated sectors like financial services.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what’s possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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