Principal, Global Partner Process Architect

About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

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Position Summary

The Principal, Global Partner Process Architect owns every internal process that shapes the partner's experience transacting with Delinea. This role is the single accountable owner for the health, automation, and continuous improvement of partner portal configuration, teaming, deal registration, partner lead flow, and MDF administration — reporting directly through the Sales Processes organization while working in close daily partnership with the broader Partner Ecosystem team.

This role exists to deliver a world-class partner transacting experience. The Partner GPO owns process design, automation and AI roadmap, vendor requirements, and IT requirements for every partner-facing transactional process, and is the point of accountability when partner processes create friction, delay, or risk in the deal lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Partner Portal & Process Ownership

• Own end-to-end configuration and continuous improvement of the partner portal, ensuring it reflects current process, policy, and program requirements.

• Own the teaming process, ensuring clear, fast, and fair rules of engagement between partners and internal sales teams.

• Own the deal registration process, including submission workflows, approval SLAs, conflict resolution, and audit trail integrity.

• Own partner lead flow processes, ensuring leads are routed, tracked, and actioned promptly and transparently.

• Own MDF (Market Development Fund) administration processes, ensuring accurate tracking, approvals, and reconciliation.

Process Health, Automation & AI Roadmap

• Continuously identify friction points in the partner transactional experience through direct partner feedback, internal stakeholder input, and process data.