Global Alliance Director - Microsoft Partnership
Neo4j
Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.
At Neo4j, we’re proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers. These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year. Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart.
Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving it’s accuracy, transparency, and explainability. Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j’s cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.
As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.
Position Summary
Neo4j is seeking an experienced and strategic Global Alliance Director to own and grow our partnership with Microsoft. This role is critical to advancing our joint go-to-market strategy, aligning product roadmaps, coordinating global field sales collaboration, and driving joint revenue opportunities. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of cloud data platforms, experience in enterprise technology partnerships, and a passion for driving innovation and revenue with partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Partnership Leadership
- Serve as the primary global point of contact for the Microsoft partnerships.
- Develop and execute a joint strategic plan that aligns Neo4j’s and Microsoft’s goals, including co-selling, co-marketing, and joint solution development.
- Lead quarterly business reviews and executive alignment meetings with Microsoft counterparts.
- Go-to-Market Execution
- Drive pipeline and revenue through joint field engagement and enablement across sales, customer success, and solutions engineering teams.
- Launch and support joint offerings and reference architectures integrating Neo4j and Microsoft (e.g., Fabric).
- Track, measure, and report on joint sales activity, wins, and impact.
- Cross-functional Coordination
- Work closely with Neo4j’s sales, marketing, product, and partner engineering teams to ensure alignment and execution of the Microsoft partnership plan.
- Collaborate with Microsoft partner marketing to drive awareness, thought leadership, and demand generation campaigns.
- Product and Technical Alignment
- Coordinate with product and engineering teams on technical integration roadmaps and support co-development of solutions such as Graph + GenAI, Graph Data Science with Microsoft Fabric.
- Operational Excellence
- Own partner governance, documentation, and tracking in CRM and alliance management systems.
- Act as an internal advocate for Microsoft-related sales opportunities, escalations, and initiatives.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in strategic alliances, business development, or partner management within enterprise software, ideally with experience in the data, analytics, or AI ecosystem.
- Strong understanding of the Microsoft go-to-market and partner strategies globally.
- Proven track record of growing and managing Microsoft global technology alliances with measurable business impact.
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced, highly matrixed organization.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and executive relationship management skills.
- Experience working with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and ISV/channel partners is a plus.
The annual on target earnings range for this position based in the United States is listed below. This range is an estimate, and the actual on target earnings may vary based on Neo4j’s compensation practices, job related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and trainings, in addition to geographic location. Based on the factors above, Neo4j utilizes the full width of the range.
In addition to the range below, US employees are eligible for a stock option grant and certain roles are eligible for an annual bonus. Employees in this position are also eligible to participate in the Company’s standard benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k), paid time off, and certain leaves of absence.
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.
- Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
- Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
- 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
- Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
- Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
- A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
- Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.
Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.
One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:
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