Build and run the East and Federal partner revenue motion, turning strategic relationships into qualified pipeline, customer access, accelerated deals, and bookings through joint planning and sales execution.
Channel Director - Asia
📜 Description
- Define and execute Asia channel go-to-market strategy, partnership frameworks, and partner enablement programs.
- Identify new channel segments, partnership models, and market opportunities; recommend investment priorities and partner structures.
- Build partner governance, onboarding, activation, and performance frameworks, including commercial terms and escalation processes.
- Develop executive sponsorship and negotiate strategic joint go-to-market agreements with partners.
- Manage channel revenue, partner performance, campaigns, and alignment with regional and global channel priorities.
- Represent the Asia channel at partner events and global leadership forums.
🛠️ Requirements
- 8+ years of senior sales leadership experience working with MSPs and SIs in telecommunications, networking, cloud, or IT services channel sales.
- Experience contributing to channel go-to-market strategy and building and leading a team to execute it.
- Demonstrated success recruiting, enabling, and scaling partner ecosystems; SI experience is an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of Asia channel markets and established relationships with key partner leaders.
- Track record of revenue expansion and outperforming commercial targets and strategic KPIs.
- Experience managing complex channel relationships, regional revenue, and risk forecasting independently.
- Professional working proficiency in English; Mandarin, Cantonese, or Japanese is strongly preferred.
- Able to travel frequently across Asia; up to 50% of working time may involve travel.
✨ Benefits
- Flexible working environment – a remote-first culture with co-working options available
- Generous leave plans – including
- Parental leave
- Birthday leave
- Purchased annual leave program
- Health and wellness support – through a wellness allowance and employee wellbeing initiatives
- Comprehensive learning support – generous study and training allowance plus paid study leave
- Creative, modern workspaces – designed to inspire when you're not working remotely, plus access to coworking spaces via our global WeWork membership if you work remotely, but like to get out of the house sometimes
- Motivated, inclusive team – work alongside industry experts and fresh talent
- Recognition programs – celebrate achievements with our Legend and Kudos award
Full job description
Your Role
Reporting to the Head of Sales, Asia. This role is pivotal in driving revenue through the recruitment, activation and engagement of new and existing MSP, SI and DCO partners.
As Channel Director, you will be responsible for driving sustainable revenue growth through strategic partnerships, market expansion and executive engagement across the Asia market. The Channel Director develops and executes initiatives by identifying high-potential partners, accelerating their onboarding, and guiding them through the partner lifecycle from initial engagement to activation and long-term revenue generation.
What You’ll Be Doing
Identify and assess new channel segments, partnership models and market entry opportunities within Asia, making recommendations to APAC sales leadership on channel investment prioritisation, partner tier structures, and the long-term shape of the Megaport partner ecosystem in the region.
Design the overarching Asia channel enablement framework and partner governance structures, including entry criteria, commercial terms, performance thresholds, and escalation or exit frameworks for underperforming partners.
Partner with Megaport’s local Hybrid Sales Pods to shape Go-to-Market strategies that will drive the recruitment of new partners in their region and accelerate their progression through the partner lifecycle from onboarding to enablement to activation and expansion.
Optimise and scale the solution sales process to improve efficiency, drive customer adoption, and support scalable growth through the channel.
Formulate and drive executive-level sponsorship within target partners, lead commercial negotiations with partners to establish strategic joint go-to-market agreements, and use these to cultivate strategic alliances with sellers in named channel accounts to drive partner-sourced opportunities and pipeline growth.
Oversee and manage Asia Channel performance including partner sales volume and revenue, shared program and agreement governance, and the selection and prioritisation of Megaport’s partner ecosystem to ensure long-term profitability and regional performance.
Ensure, where practical, Megaport solutions are productised and remuneration plans relating to Megaport products are clearly defined for channel sellers in your accounts.
Execute targeted channel campaigns in collaboration with channel partners to ensure alignment of long-term partner capabilities with Megaport’s strategic Channel roadmap, including the promotion of Megaport’s latest products, solution offerings, and use cases to educate, train, and equip partner sellers for success.
Represent Asia channel interests within Megaport’s global channel leadership forums, ensuring regional strategy is aligned with and contributes to global channel priorities.
Represent Megaport at key partner events, acting as an integral link to our Hybrid Sales Pods & Channel partners to strengthen presence, visibility and engagement.
What We Are Looking For
8+ years of experience in senior sales leadership experience working with MSP and SI’s, with a background in telecommunications, networking, cloud, or IT services sales within the Channel.
Experience in contributing to the development of a channel GTM strategy and building out and leading a team to execute that strategy.
Demonstrated success in recruiting, enabling, and scaling partner ecosystems. Experience with SI’s an advantage.
Deep understanding of the channel landscape in the Asia markets, with established relationships with leadership in key partner organisations.
Drive cross-functional alignment with multiple business units, partners and solution teams.
Demonstrated history of driving revenue expansion and consistently outperforming commercial targets and strategic KPIs.
High-level commercial autonomy with a proven record of managing complex, high-value channel relationships, regional revenue and risk forecasting, and operating independently within global reporting structures.
Entrepreneurial mindset; flexible and adaptable.
Comfortable operating independently within a globally distributed organisational structure.
Willingness and capability to travel across the Asia region for strategic partner meetings, enablement sessions, and key industry events (anticipate that up to 50% of your working time will be spent travelling).
What We Offer
Generous leave plans – including, parental leave, birthday leave, and a purchased annual leave program
Health and wellness support – through a wellness allowance and employee wellbeing initiatives
Comprehensive learning support – generous study and training allowance plus paid study leave
Creative, modern workspaces – designed to inspire when you're not working remotely, plus access to coworking spaces via our global WeWork membership if you work remotely, but like to get out of the house sometimes
Motivated, inclusive team – work alongside industry experts and fresh talent
Recognition programs – celebrate achievements with our Legend and Kudos award
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