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Director, Ecosystem Growth Business Development

Role overview

Summary

This role is for leading and scaling Acxiom's strategic ecosystem technology partnership with Salesforce. You will drive growth through the end-to-end partner strategy, collaborating across sales, marketing, and product teams to enhance Acxiom's identity and data capabilities within the Salesforce ecosystem.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in partnerships, alliances, or business development at an enterprise data, marTech, or cloud infrastructure company.
  • Direct experience co-selling with or through hyperscaler/platform ecosystems like Salesforce.
  • Track record building GTM playbooks and driving measurable partner-sourced pipeline.
  • Strong grasp of identity resolution, first-party data infrastructure, and customer data platform concepts.
  • Experience in selling into and with Salesforce.

Responsibilities

  • Own GTM strategy and execution across Acxiom's Salesforce ecosystem partnership.
  • Build and execute structured GTM plans with success metrics for Salesforce partner-sourced revenue.
  • Lead Salesforce enablement, training sellers and solution engineers on Acxiom's capabilities.
  • Develop and refine competitive positioning for Acxiom's identity and data backbone.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

About the company

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Acxiom

  • AdTech & MarTech
  • Large
  • 1,001–5,000
Acxiom is a customer intelligence company that provides data-driven solutions to enable the world’s best marketers to better understand their customers to create better experiences and business growth. A leader in customer data management, identity, and the ethical use of data for more than 50 years, Acxiom now helps thousands of clients and partners around the globe work together to create millions of better customer experiences, every day. Acxiom is a registered trademark of Acxiom LLC and is part of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (IPG).

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Job description

Acxiom is seeking a Leader of Ecosystem Partnership with Salesforce to lead and scale our strategic ecosystem technology partnership into durable, high-growth revenue channel with Salesforce. This leader will own the end-to-end partner strategy and go-to-market motions driving growth of Acxiom's identity, data foundational capabilities and professional services within Salesforce ecosystem. This is a highly cross-functional role sitting at the intersection of sales, marketing, product, and solution engineering.

What You'll Do

  • Own GTM strategy and execution across Acxiom's Salesforce ecosystem partnership, defining and deploying new revenue growth structures for Acxiom products and downstream Acxiom services.
  • Build and execute structured GTM plans, with 90-day stretch objectives, and success metrics for Salesforce partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue
  • Lead Salesforce enablement, training Salesforce sellers and solution engineers on Acxiom's identity resolution, cross-channel orchestration, and measurement capabilities
  • Develop and refine competitive positioning for Acxiom's identity and data backbone in the context of agentic marketing and enterprise data infrastructure
  • Build joint pipeline with Salesforce partner sales and alliance teams; track and report on co-sell revenue, pipeline health, and partner-sourced bookings
  • Represent Acxiom at Salesforce QBRs, planning cycles, and executive relationship-building
  • Identify white space for new Salesforce partnership that extend Acxiom's reach into adjacent Salesforce and partner platform capabilities
  • Designs governance frameworks, milestone structures, and accountability models for Salesforce partnership
  • Build and nurture strategic relationships within Omnicom and ecosystem partner stakeholders, influencing positioning and partnership success.
  • Identify Salesforce client needs and shape differentiated solutions leveraging Acxiom capabilities and ecosystem partner technologies.
  • Support pursuit strategies, opportunity qualification and deal progression, engaging with senior stakeholders across clients and Salesforce  
  • Promote joint value propositions through thought leadership, partner planning activities and participation in key industry initiatives undefined

What You'll Bring

  • 15+ years in partnerships, alliances, or business development at an enterprise data, marTech, or cloud infrastructure company
  • Direct experience co-selling with or through hyperscaler/platform ecosystems (Adobe, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce, or similar)
  • Track record building GTM playbooks and driving measurable partner-sourced pipeline along with both direct and indirect revenue
  • Strong grasp of identity resolution, first-party data infrastructure, and customer data platform (CDP) concepts
  • Executive presence — comfortable running joint business planning with partner VPs and building internal alignment across sales, marketing, and product
  • Experience in financial services or another regulated vertical is a plus, given heavy regulated industry focus strategy
  • Experience in selling into and with Salesforce is a requirement.

Primary Location City/State:

Homebased - New York, New York

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Acxiom is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status (EOE/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.


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