DDN

DDN

Director, Ecosystem Operations

Remote - New York · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
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About the role

  • This is not a relationship-management-only role.
  • The successful candidate must thrive in fast-moving environments where operational clarity, ecosystem scalability, and execution discipline directly impact growth.

Responsibilities

  • Help define and operationalize DDN's ecosystem strategy across VARs, OEMs, GSIs, cloud providers, and strategic technology partners
  • Develop scalable engagement models aligned to DDN's AI infrastructure and enterprise GTM strategy
  • Support the expansion of co-sell, fulfillment, marketplace, and joint solution motions globally
  • Build and improve partner programs, engagement frameworks, governance models, and operational workflows
  • Create scalable processes for partner onboarding, enablement, deal engagement, escalation management, and operational coordination
  • Improve ecosystem operational maturity across reporting, accountability, execution tracking, and partner lifecycle management
  • Support transaction and fulfillment processes across cloud ecosystem partners and marketplaces
  • Partner with Finance, Deal Desk, RevOps, Legal, GSS, and Sales teams to improve execution and scalability
  • Improve operational visibility into marketplace transactions, partner fulfillment, and ecosystem-influenced revenue
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, GSS, and ecosystem partners on joint offerings and NPI (New Product Introduction) initiatives

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in ecosystem, alliances, channel, strategic partnerships, business operations, or GTM leadership roles
  • Experience supporting cloud marketplace, private offer, transaction, and fulfillment workflows
  • Experience supporting joint offering development and NPI execution with cross-functional teams
  • Experience gathering business and technical requirements and driving execution across multiple functions
  • Experience with Salesforce, partner operations, and ecosystem reporting
  • Coordinate cross-functional execution required to launch and scale partner-integrated offerings

Nice to have

  • Experience in AI infrastructure, enterprise storage, cloud infrastructure, HPC, or enterprise technology environments
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA ecosystem motions and AI infrastructure partnerships
  • Experience working with marketplace ecosystems such as AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience operating in high-growth or transformation-stage organizations
  • Scalable and operationally mature ecosystem programs
  • Faster operationalization of joint offerings and ecosystem initiatives
  • Improved co-sell alignment and ecosystem-influenced pipeline generation
  • Better visibility into ecosystem performance, contribution, and ROI

This listing is sourced directly from DDN's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.