Sr. Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture
fivetran
Remote, United Kingdom, EMEA
Engineering
Job Score
80 pts
On-site model (+70)
Engineering (+10)
From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About Us
Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.
Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.
Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.
As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.
About the Role
We're hiring a Senior Manager to lead our Partner Solutions Architecture (Partner SA) team across EMEA and APJ.
The team owns the technical relationship with systems integrators, consultancies and technology partners across these regions, and works alongside our alliances team as the regional route to market for our global platform partners.
This is a people leadership role, but you'll need enough technical experience to coach the team and get hands-on when it's needed. You'll be working across two theatres and several time zones. When a partner relationship needs senior involvement, you'll step in alongside the Partner SA who owns it.
This role drives revenue via partners by championing partner technical capability and engagement with Fivetran and dbt. With the team, you will scale partner technical cosell and champion our partners' ability to communicate the value of Fivetran and the dbt platform, identify the right use cases, design best-practice architectures and deliver high-quality implementations.
You'll report to the Global Head of Partner Solutions Architecture and work closely with your counterpart who leads the AMER team. Outside the Partner SA team, you'll work most closely with the regional partner leaders for EMEA and APJ and their partner sales and partner development managers, as well as field engineering leadership in both theatres.
What You’ll Do
- Own regional success jointly with your partner leadership counterparts, and be able to explain what's driving performance.
- Own capability outcomes for the region, including certification and accreditation growth, local enablement program strategy and partner reach, and put a scalable, consistent operating rhythm in place.
- Turn global alliance strategy into regional execution, working with the platform partners' local field teams and the SIs delivering on those platforms.
- Lead, coach and develop the EMEA and APJ Partner SA team, including regular 1:1s, clear expectations, performance conversations and career development
- Own the coverage model for both geos, including who covers which partners and territories, where we need more support, and how we prioritise
- Build and retain a high-performing team, including hiring as the team grows.
- Share what you're seeing in the region with the global product Partner SAs and the product team, such as integration gaps, recurring delivery issues, competitive dynamics and roadmap requests, backed up with data where possible.
- Travel approximately 30% across both theatres for partner planning, enablement delivery, regional events and time with your team.
Skills We’re Looking For
- Experience managing a distributed customer- or partner-facing technical team (e.g. solutions architecture, sales engineering, partner engineering or consulting delivery), including hiring, performance management and developing people.
- A background in partner, alliance or channel motions, with a good understanding of how SIs and technology partners make money and set priorities.
- A solid understanding of the modern data stack (ingestion, transformation, orchestration, warehouses and lakehouses, open table formats, semantic layers, catalogs and BI) and how it all fits together.
- A track record of building capability in partner or customer organisations, for example through enablement programs, certification or accreditation paths, workshops and labs, or helping partners build a practice.
- Comfortable in commercial conversations, including regional pipeline reviews, partner business planning and being accountable for a number.
Bonus Skills
- Hands-on experience with dbt and with Fivetran.
- Experience leading a team through organisational change
- Experience running partner certification, accreditation or enablement programs.
- Established relationships in the EMEA or APJ partner ecosystem.
- Familiarity with cloud marketplace motions and co-sell programs.
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
- RSU stock grants*
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
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We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.
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