Founding Partnerships & Channel Lead
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About the role
We're looking for our Founding Partnerships & Channel Lead to build Allô's reseller and channel program from scratch: identify the right partners, sign them, activate them, and get them closing. This is a founding motion, not a management job. You'll own the strategy and execute it yourself before we build a team around you. If you've built partner pipelines from zero in a competitive market and know how to make the first 10 partners actually produce revenue: keep reading.
Responsibilities
- Design and launch Allô's channel partner program (resellers, MSPs, VARs, referral partners)
- Identify, recruit, and onboard the first wave of high-potential partners
- Build the enablement infrastructure: playbooks, pricing, training, co-sell motions
- Work directly with sales and product to close partner-sourced deals
- Define the KPIs and own them: partner ARR, activated partners, time-to-first-deal
- Who we're looking for
- 5+ years building or scaling channel/partner programs in B2B SaaS: UCaaS, vertical SaaS, or SMB-focused tools
- Direct experience designing and launching a partner motion from zero, not just running an existing one
- Strong understanding of the MSP, reseller, and VAR ecosystems: how they buy, sell, and what makes them activate
- Track record of partner-sourced revenue you can point to with specific numbers
- Comfortable closing partner-sourced deals directly, without heavy sales support
- Fluent in the mechanics: onboarding, enablement, pricing, co-sell motions, and incentive design
- What actually matters
- You've built a channel motion before, not just managed an existing one
- You know the difference between a partner who signs and a partner who sells
- You can close without heavy support
- You think in systems: onboarding, enablement, incentives, feedback loops
- High autonomy. If you need a structured playbook handed to you, we're not the right fit.
- Why now
- The channel for AI-powered SMB tools is wide open. Incumbents are slow, overpriced, and under-invested in their partner ecosystems. You'd be coming in early enough to shape the category with a product that's already winning on the direct side.
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About The Mobile-First Company Most tools for small businesses weren't built for real operators. They were built for employees in offices, not people running a business from their phone. We're changing that. We build mobile-first business software that feels like a consumer app, runs on AI, and spreads like a creator brand. Our first product, Allo , gives you a second number on your phone, answers missed calls with AI, transcribes everything, and syncs it to your CRM. Over 20,000 businesses use it every day. Next up: expenses, invoicing, and more. We've raised +15 million dolars from Base10, Lightspeed, EMBLEM, and 30+ top operators. Our team is based in Paris, Buenos Aires , Miami .
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