Partnership Alliances Director

Leena AI
Leena AI

Sales & Business Development

United States

Posted on Sep 28, 2026
About Leena AI

Leena AI is a leading AI-powered enterprise automation platform that helps organizations transform

their employee and customer experiences. Our cutting-edge LLM-based solutions streamline HR, IT, and

Ops workflows—improving productivity, reducing operational load, and elevating service delivery at

scale. We recently launched AI Colleagues, a next-generation employee experience platform that moves

beyond simple chatbots to act as autonomous, specialized digital coworkers. We partner with global

enterprises to bring AI-driven automation to the center of their digital transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive Leena AI's engagement, credibility, and growth across IBM and its ecosystem
  • Own partner-sourced pipeline as your top metric — from IBM, IBM ecosystem partners, and other

partnerships.

  • Collaborate across the major IBM divisions. IBM Technology (most importantly watsonx

Orchestrate) and IBM Consulting.

  • Map key IBM teams and build the relationships that keep Leena AI top of mind
  • Organize and present enablement sessions for IBM sales, delivery, and other key teams
  • Engage IBM sales teams on account strategy, mapping, and joint execution
  • Drive Leena AI's participation in IBM user conferences and internal IBM events
  • Build joint value propositions and co-sell plays, and recruit and activate IBM ecosystem partners
  • Partner internally with Sales, Solution Engineering, Product, Marketing, and our Executive team

Requirements

Requirements

  • Extensive, recent experience working with IBM — either as an IBM partner or as an IBM employee
  • 8+ years in strategic alliances, channel, or partnerships at an enterprise SaaS or AI/tech company
  • Proven track record of driving partner-sourced pipeline and revenue
  • Deep understanding of co-sell and partner GTM motions in large, matrixed organizations
  • Skilled at partner mapping, enablement, and aligning field teams on joint execution
  • Executive presence, comfortable moving from field co-selling to leadership-level strategy
  • Self-directed and thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth environment

Valued, But Not Required

  • Experience working at IBM
  • Experience in the HR or IT technology domain
  • Experience with partnerships focused on agentic AI technology

Benefits

Why Join Leena AI?

  • Work at the forefront of enterprise AI and automation with a company that is defining the trends in

this space — not following.

  • Influence how the world's biggest companies transform their employee experience
  • Partner with a global team of innovators building industry-defining technology
  • Be part of a dynamic, innovative, and high-growth company
  • Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and opportunities for rapid career growth