Security Partner Manager, AI Threat Defense, Google Cloud

About the role

As a Security Partner Manager, you will play a critical role in scaling our AI Threat Defense ecosystem. This role is essential to our channel growth strategy. You will serve as the primary guide for our partners, leading intensive AI workshops and helping them design, build, and deploy bespoke security solutions utilizing our AI Threat Defense capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical onboarding and enablement of our AITD global partners, ensuring they are fully equipped to go to market with our AI Threat Defense solutions starting this summer.
• Design, facilitate, and lead technical AI workshops tailored for security practitioners, architects, and partner engineering teams.
• Guide partners in building bespoke, AI-driven security solutions, advising on best practices, integration points.
• Act as a critical driver in scaling the AI Threat Defense ecosystem, ensuring partners are capable of delivering high-value security operations, threat investigation, and response outcomes.
• Work closely with product management, engineering, and partner sales teams to relay feedback from the field, refine enablement materials, and optimize our partner Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in partner development, channel program management, or go-to-market (GTM) enablement within the cybersecurity or cloud security sector.
• Experience with cybersecurity concepts (e.g., managed security service providers (MSSPs), security operations (SecOps), threat detection) and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications in cybersecurity (e.g., Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI security risks, or AI-driven security automation).
• Experience in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications within cyber defense.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Pay

US: $121000 - $177000 (USD) + 66.67% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Not specified

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, sick time, maternity leave, baby bonding leave, and holidays.