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Why This Role Matters
As a Partner Sales Executive, you will take a leading role in this transformation, owning strategic, high-value partner accounts, navigating complex buying groups, and driving outcomes that matter in key verticals like Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Technology and Healthcare.

This role sits at the intersection of Vonage's go-to-market transformation, vertical expansion, and next-gen product adoption.

You will be responsible for engaging and closing new partners and to build a strong relationship and to nurture the partners on the value which Vonage will bring to them and their end customers, while helping Vonage capture market share from legacy platforms.

You'll lead cross-functional engagement from discovery to deployment, and help influence how Vonage scales its business across Japan.

Your Key Responsibilities
Strategic Partner Sales Leadership

• Own the sales cycle for opportunities generated through our partners, from qualification through negotiation and closing.
• Develop and execute strategic plans aligned to partner priorities and Vonage's value proposition.
• Lead multi-threaded engagement across business, technical, and executive stakeholders in complex accounts.

Vertical Expertise & Outcome Selling

• Build deep industry knowledge in one or more of Vonage's priority verticals.
• Deliver outcome-based value propositions, connecting Vonage's capabilities to tangible business transformation goals.
• Leverage solution selling and challenger methodologies to create urgency and differentiate value.

Pipeline Generation & Forecasting

• Drive pipeline creation through targeted outbound strategies, ABM (Account-Based Marketing), and close collaboration with Business Development, Marketing, Channel, and Alliances.
• Maintain 4x pipeline coverage and forecast with precision using Salesforce and other sales tools (e.g., Gong, Outreach).

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Sales Engineers, Product, Customer Success, and Professional Services to deliver tailored, scalable solutions.
• Ensure seamless handoffs post-sale to drive onboarding, adoption, and customer satisfaction.

Required
What you'll bring

• 5+ years of partner sales or enterprise sales experience in B2B SaaS, communications, or customer experience technology.
• Proven track record of consistently exceeding $1M+ annual quotas in high-value, multi-stakeholder sales.
• Strong pipeline generation capabilities with a history of self-sourcing and outbound success.
• Familiarity with Salesforce CRM, and comfort using sales enablement tools such as Gong, Outreach, and Highspot
• Deep consultative selling skills and the ability to translate technology into business outcomes.
• Industry vertical expertise or a strong desire to specialise.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Business level English skills

There's no perfect candidate.
You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.

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Who We Are
Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.