Director Technology Partnerships

Chainguard is hiring a Director, Technology Partnerships to establish and develop deep, long-term alliances with important technology companies across the security and developer ecosystem. This role involves owning a portfolio of strategic partners, driving growth through partner strategy, business economics, and joint go-to-market execution. The Director will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance to optimize partnerships that create measurable customer value and revenue impact, building a technology partner ecosystem with widely adopted integrations.

Must Have

• Build a technology partner ecosystem with widely adopted integrations.
• Identify and prioritize high impact partners.
• Develop deep relationships with partner decision makers.
• Build the partnership business case, including clear success metrics.
• Partner with internal stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance) to launch, scale, and measure joint offerings.
• Influence product and engineering priorities by bringing market data, partner insights, and customer needs.
• Create repeatable co-sell motions with partners.
• Develop enablement and playbooks for sales and partner teams.
• Track and report performance across adoption, pipeline influence, and partner sourced opportunities.
• 8+ years in strategic partnerships, technology partnerships, product partnerships, alliances, or ecosystem roles.
• Proven ability to source and close strategic partnerships and scale them.
• Strong business and financial judgment.
• Technical fluency to lead product and integration conversations.
• Strong cross functional leadership and executive presence.
• Creative operator mindset.
• Team player energy.

Good to Have

• Experience in software supply chain security, container security, vulnerability management, SBOM, or adjacent ecosystems.
• Experience partnering with major security platforms, DevOps tooling providers, or cloud marketplaces.
• Experience in a high growth startup environment.

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion, with 10 years to exercise options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: 100% of health, vision and dental insurance premiums covered for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Director Technology Partnerships

Chainguard is building the trusted foundation for software supply chain security. The Technology Partnerships team is responsible for establishing and developing deep, long term alliances with important technology companies across the security and developer ecosystem. We are hiring a Director, Technology Partnerships to own a portfolio of strategic partners and drive growth through partner strategy, business economics, and joint go to market execution. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance to develop and optimize partnerships that create measurable customer value and revenue impact.

What you will do

• Build a technology partner ecosystem with widely adopted integrations that increase product adoption and expands market reach
• Identify and prioritize high impact partners that complement platform direction and deliver meaningful value to shared customers
• Develop deep relationships with partner decision makers and build alignment on business objectives for win win outcomes
• Build the partnership business case, including clear success metrics, investment requirements, and commercial economics, and use data driven and qualitative insights to drive internal decisions
• Partner with internal stakeholders including Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance to launch, scale, and measure joint offerings
• Influence product and engineering priorities by bringing market data, partner insights, and customer needs that support partnership opportunities
• Create repeatable co sell motions with partners, including account mapping, field engagement, and joint pipeline plans
• Develop enablement and playbooks so sales teams and partner teams know how to position, package, and win together
• Track and report performance across adoption, pipeline influence, and partner sourced opportunities, then iterate based on what is working

What we are looking for

• 8 plus years in strategic partnerships, technology partnerships, product partnerships, alliances, or ecosystem roles in security, cloud, infrastructure, or developer tooling
• Proven ability to source and close strategic partnerships and scale them through repeatable programs
• Strong business and financial judgment, comfortable building a partnership business case and aligning stakeholders on economics and tradeoffs
• Technical fluency to lead product and integration conversations, ask the right questions, and translate technical constraints into clear partner plans, without needing to be the technical owner
• Strong cross functional leadership and executive presence, you can drive outcomes through influence and clarity
• Creative operator mindset, you run experiments, build new plays, and learn fast
• Team player energy, you build trust, share context early, and make the broader team better

Nice to have

• Experience in software supply chain security, container security, vulnerability management, SBOM, or adjacent ecosystems
• Experience partnering with major security platforms, DevOps tooling providers, or cloud marketplaces
• Experience in a high growth startup environment

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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