VP of Business Development and Strategy

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Responsibilities

You are responsible for strategic business development and our strategy from an outside perspective. This perspective is based on our customers, partners, and the market. You are responsible for:

• Strategic partnerships (integrations, container schedulers, hosting, channel, open source, OEM-deals)
• Business development
• Corporate positioning (conversational development, remote only)
• Assist with Investor relations (strategy conversations, industry perspective, participate in fund-raising with CFO and CEO, monthly updates, answering questions)

You and your team would communicate the strategic direction of the company at:

• Strategic customer visits (CIO of Fortune 500 company)
• Industry events (PromCon, AWS re:Invent, Microsoft Build)
• Investor relation events

Requirements

• Problem solver who can quickly master new concepts and subject matter.
• Understand the ALM market and all its players, from Docker to AWS, from Perforce to PTC.
• Understand the strategic interests of all the players in the ALM industry.
• History of making complex partnerships successful.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Relationship focused, a positive relation with our partners.
• Be able to represent the company in place of the CEO.
• Extensive network in the ALM industry.
• Ability to work well with colleagues both in and outside of the organization, with good judgment, discretion, and tact.
• Ability to lead a team and good management skills.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Successful completion of a background check.

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Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply. Our hiring process is described in more detail in our hiring handbook.

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