MSP Sales Acceleration Manager, US & Canada

About the role

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management, helping organizations secure, protect, manage, and derive value from data across the data center, edge, and cloud. The MSP Sales Acceleration Channel Development Manager (CDM) activates sales inside an assigned set of MSP and MSSP partners who have launched managed services built on Cohesity's technologies. You pick up the baton from the MSP Service Creation team just before new service launches, staying closely engaged through a partner's sales activation and their first QBR, where results against target are confirmed. Outside of service launches, you lead ongoing sales acceleration activities with those partners. At your core, you are a trainer — conveying Cohesity's value propositions, objection handling, and competitive positioning to partner sellers in a way that sticks. You're creative about building Cohesity mindshare with MSP/MSSP sellers, understand marketing well enough to work directly with partners' marketing teams, and are energized by sales role-play, coaching, and watching a partner seller close using what you taught them. You have a sales "bend" — a drive to see MSP/MSSP partners deplete capacity against their Cohesity commitments — intersected with partner obsession, knowing that Cohesity's financial success with MSP/MSSPs is only sustainable if they are successful.

Responsibilities

• Managing Sales Activation & Launch Handoffs
  • Receive the handoff from the MSP Service Creation team when a new or enhanced MSP service is nearing launch and drive the partner's sales activation in conjunction with their enablement and product management teams.
  • Stay directly engaged through the first QBR, where sales targets against the launch are confirmed, or beyond as needed for remediation.
  • Lead the enablement an MSP partner needs to sell the service repeatably without Cohesity's direct involvement, in support of the partner's sales and sales enablement teams.
• Driving Productivity & Demand Generation
  • Create demand against partner committed spend through both partner-led and joint Cohesity sales acceleration activities; track your own productivity ratios and partner committed spend depletion across assigned partners.
  • Train partner sellers on Cohesity's value propositions, objection handling, and competitive positioning, using role-play, coaching, and other creative methods.
  • Surface proactive indicators of partner health and likely future performance to your Director, the partner's MSP Account Executive, and the broader team.
• Partnering with MSP Account Executives
  • Operate in partnership with the MSP Account Executive, who owns the MSP executive relationship, annual spend commitment, annual recommit, and forecast management.
  • Lead the activities that create end-customer demand that consumes that commitment across assigned partners.
• Engaging with MSP Sales & Marketing Teams
  • Interface directly with MSP sales and marketing teams to share best practices on how partners promote and sell Cohesity-based services through one-to-one partner calls, one-to-many webinars, and in-person events.
  • Share responsibility with the Account Executive for ensuring MSPs run Cohesity-inclusive marketing and sales campaigns.
• Building Enablement Assets
  • Develop training and enablement assets — objection-handling guides, competitive battlecards, role-play scenarios — that support coaching engagements, in partnership with Product Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, and Partner Marketing, leveraging existing messaging and content for efficiency and consistency.
  • Leverage AI to work efficiently in developing effective, engaging enablement content for partner sellers.
  • Bring MSP seller feedback from training and coaching back to Cohesity's core MSP team to inform broader enablement and product roadmaps.

Requirements

• Experience carrying and consistently achieving a quota or productivity target in a channel sales or sales enablement role.
• A track record of building or executing sales acceleration, enablement, or activation motions for channel — preferably MSP or MSSPs — in a partner-led motion.
• Innovative ideas on partner-led sales and marketing activities that lead to demand and sales results.
• Experience working with channel partner marketing teams on content and campaigns.
• Strong analytical instincts, including comfort building productivity ratios and KPIs.
• Domain experience in data protection, cyber resilience, storage, or security markets.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve productivity, organization, and sales effectiveness.
• Willingness to travel as required, which is expected to be extensive for this role.
• Professional English language proficiency for customer and internal communication.

Pay

Starting pay range: $171,360.00 – $214,200.00 per year (annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment). This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Actual salary depends on skills, qualifications, experience, location, and salary expectations.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits
• Vacation, paid holidays, and refresh days
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life and disability insurance coverages
• Other benefits the Company may offer from time to time

Schedule

Employees within a reasonable commute (approximately 45 minutes average travel time) work from core offices 2–3 days per week of their choosing. Candidates are strongly preferred to be currently located in or near the designated job location; those outside the area should apply only if committed to relocating prior to start date and have the legal right to work in the job location.