What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, NVIDIA Alliances Partner Manager position at TrendAI?
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.
Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.
The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
Proactive security starts here. TrendMicro.com
About The Role
TrendAI is accelerating its growth within the NVIDIA ecosystem. As AI-native and cloud-native workloads expand, this platform has become a critical strategic channel for innovation, customer acquisition, and revenue acceleration.
The Director, Strategic Alliances & Market Development (NVIDIA) will lead TrendAI’s global strategic relationship with NVIDIA. This role serves as TrendAI’s primary ecosystem strategist—driving executive alignment, identifying emerging opportunities, and translating alliance strategy into measurable revenue impact.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Alliance Leadership
Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.
The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
Proactive security starts here. TrendMicro.com
About The Role
TrendAI is accelerating its growth within the NVIDIA ecosystem. As AI-native and cloud-native workloads expand, this platform has become a critical strategic channel for innovation, customer acquisition, and revenue acceleration.
The Director, Strategic Alliances & Market Development (NVIDIA) will lead TrendAI’s global strategic relationship with NVIDIA. This role serves as TrendAI’s primary ecosystem strategist—driving executive alignment, identifying emerging opportunities, and translating alliance strategy into measurable revenue impact.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Alliance Leadership
- Lead TrendAI’s global strategic relationship with NVIDIA
- Develop and execute a multi-year partnership roadmap aligned to company growth priorities
- Build and maintain senior-level executive relationships
- Position TrendAI as a preferred security and AI partner within the ecosystem
- Negotiate and operationalize joint initiatives and agreements
- Monitor ecosystem evolution, technology shifts, and competitive dynamics
- Identify emerging AI, platform-native, and security adjacencies
- Deliver strategic insights and growth recommendations to TrendAI executive leadership
- Drive measurable revenue via co-sell, marketplace, and joint solution motions
- Contribute to annual alliance revenue targets
- Advance platform marketplace strategy and field engagement
- Support sales enablement and joint customer-facing messaging
- Partner closely with TrendAI Product, Sales, Marketing, and Partner Operations teams
- Influence roadmap and packaging decisions based on ecosystem insights
- Represent TrendAI at ecosystem events and partner forums
- 8–12 years in enterprise technology or strategic partnerships
- Direct experience operating within the NVIDIA ecosystem
- Proven success driving revenue through co-sell or marketplace models
- Strong understanding of cloud, AI, and security architectures
- Executive communication and cross-functional influence expertise
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, high-growth environments
- Ecosystem Strategy & Commercial Thinking
- Revenue Orientation
- Executive Relationship Management
- Operational Excellence
- Cross-Functional Leadership