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Elastic

Senior Partner Manager, Korea

Elastic
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senior full-time South Korea

First indexed 18 Jun 2026

Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

We're looking for a highly motivated Senior Partner Manager in South Korea with a strong background developing new client segments in partnership with Value-Added Resellers, Regional System Integrators and modern Distribution partners.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Leadership: As a leader for the region, you will drive business growth through partnerships.
  • Executive Relationships: Grow trust and influence with senior leadership of focus partners, develop joint strategies, commitments, and execution plans.
  • Sales Management: Work with internal and external field sales teams to take joint sales plays, programs and industry solutions to specific market segments for execution.
  • Market Development: Craft and promote mutually-beneficial business models, solution offerings and messaging that drive new opportunities in the market.
  • Business Cadence: Execute, manage and deliver South Korean pipeline and revenue growth cadence tied to specified partners' strategies and initiatives.
  • Strategy: Help shape and evolve Elastic's partner strategy, while implementing plans and execution in the South Korean region.
  • Partner Ecosystem: Identify, recruit, enable and manage partners to support business goals and execute channel sales strategies.
  • Communication: Coordinate functions, manage activity execution, resolve conflict, share results, and be a spokesperson for joint value propositions.
  • Educate: Ensure partners' stakeholders understand Elastic's value proposition and how our technology fits into their overall GTM strategy and portfolio.

What You Bring

  • 8+ years in Partner Management roles.
  • Extensive external industry network with 8+ years of SaaS-based solutions and/or open-source technologies.
  • Executive presence; executive selling, communication and business development skills.
  • Proven performance, personally leading to measurable revenue results through strategic partnerships.
  • Operational Excellence - ability to use data, systems and processes effectively to plan, execute and measure performance and initiatives.
  • Strong skills in analysis, organization, and managing projects.
  • Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships while delivering results in a complex, matrixed global organization.
  • Tolerance for ambiguity; able to focus and execute in a changing environment.
  • Leadership - strong drive and character qualities that match our values.
  • Accountability and a bias for action.
  • High energy, great attitude, collaborative approach, and a learning mindset.
  • Willingness to travel (up to 20%).

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions.

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
  • Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
  • Generous number of vacation days each year.
  • Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
  • Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
  • Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
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