# Senior Partner Sales Executive

**Company**: Zendesk
**Location**: Remote, France
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Zendesk as a Senior Partner Sales Executive to drive partner-led growth across EMEA and APAC, focusing on Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS). You'll recruit and scale strategic partners, execute regional partner GTM motions, and enable partners to deliver AI-enabled Zendesk contact center solutions.

**What you'll be doing**

- Execute the partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue plan for CCaaS across EMEA and APAC

- Recruit, onboard, and scale a portfolio of CCaaS partners

- Build partner capabilities across contact center transformation, voice, AI, automation, and customer experience solutions

- Lead co-sell motions and mid-to-large commercial CCaaS opportunities with partners

- Enable partners to commercialize Zendesk CCaaS and AI solutions

- Communicate Zendesk's AI and CCaaS strategy to partners and customers

- Maintain partner pipeline health, forecast accuracy, and regular performance reviews

- Collaborate with regional Sales, Marketing, Product, Solutions Consulting, and Customer Success teams

- Share regional and partner feedback with Product and Engineering

**What you bring to the role**

- 8+ years in partner/channel sales, alliance management, or partner GTM roles in SaaS/software

- Demonstrated success recruiting and growing partners and driving partner-influenced revenue

- Experience managing commercial negotiations and leading partner-led CCaaS opportunities

- Strong understanding of the contact center ecosystem

- AI fluency and ability to explain Zendesk's AI value proposition

- Strong communication and presentation skills

- Comfortable working across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones

**Basic Qualifications**

- 8+ years in partner/channel sales, alliance management, or partner GTM roles within SaaS/software

- Demonstrable experience recruiting and scaling partners and driving partner-influenced revenue

- Experience closing or influencing partner-led CCaaS deals

- Experience influencing cross-functional internal teams

- Practical AI fluency

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience operating across EMEA and APAC markets

- Experience with CCaaS, contact center transformation, customer experience, CRM, voice, or workforce engagement solutions

- Prior experience packaging partner-ready offerings or service-led plays

- Experience with co-funded partner marketing programs and measuring partner ROI

- Exposure to commercializing AI/ML capabilities through partners

- Fluency in one or more additional EMEA or APAC languages

## Skills

### Required
- partner/channel sales
- alliance management
- partner GTM
- SaaS/software
- contact center ecosystem
- AI fluency
- communication
- presentation

### Nice to have
- CCaaS
- contact center transformation
- customer experience
- CRM
- voice
- workforce engagement solutions
- co-funded partner marketing programs
- AI/ML capabilities

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