About the Role

Verkada prides itself on maintaining a high hiring bar while bringing in diverse and unconventional backgrounds of driven individuals obsessed with their craft. As a Business Value Manager, you will have a direct impact on Verkada’s Enterprise sales motion, bridging the gap between complex technologies and tangible financial and operational outcomes.

Reporting to the Chief of Staff to the CRO, you will partner with Enterprise Sales Leaders to architect a value selling framework to scale to the Enterprise Sales organization, building the infrastructure to reference key customer outcomes and win stories, as well as partnering with Product Marketing and Enablement to develop assets and enablement programs. In addition to pioneering the Business Value Selling program at Verkada, you will serve as the Strategic Deal Architect behind our most complex, multi-million-dollar deals, transforming technical capabilities into compelling financial and operational narratives. In this high-visibility role, you will move beyond feature-selling, working at the intersection of finance, product, and sales to quantify the operational and financial impact of our platform, directly influencing the investment decisions of C-suite executives at the world’s leading enterprises.

Please note: this role is remote - with 50% of travel required.

What You'll Do

• Program Development: Partner with Product Marketing to create and refine standardized value frameworks, templates, and "talk tracks" to scale business value services across the global enterprise sales organization.
• Value Realization Tracking and Database: Monitor and analyze data from current customers post-implementation to validate that the promised value was delivered, partnering with Product Marketing to maintain a database of relevant data, and creating "real-world" success stories for future sales.
• Sales Enablement: Coach sales teams on value-selling methodologies, including referencing of relevant customer data,  and provide the tooling/content for self-service business justifications.
• Value Discovery: Partner with account executives to lead discovery sessions with CxOs to identify pain points and desired outcomes.
• Financial Modeling: Develop ROI (Return on Investment) and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) value models to quantify the business impact of solutions.
• Business Case Development: Draft data-backed business cases for strategic opportunities, ensuring every claim is anchored in measurable customer impact.
• Executive Storytelling: Craft and deliver executive-level business cases that align technical solutions with broad corporate objectives.
• Commercial Objection Handling: partnering with Sales to dismantle financial objections in real-time.

What You Bring

• Strategic Consulting: 5–9+ years of experience in management consulting, business transformation, or enterprise software sales.
• Financial Intelligence: Proficiency in building complex financial models and the ability to navigate financial documents like 10-Ks and earnings transcripts.
• Analytical Power: Proficiency in data visualization and manipulation tools such as Looker and advanced Google Sheets.
• Executive Presence: Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence C-suite decision-makers.
• Technical & Market Acumen: Deep understanding of SaaS sales motions, industry trends (e.g., AI/ML acceleration), and how IT functions like operations and security drive value.

Analytical Rigor: Ability to derive meaningful insights from large, complex data sets to build compelling business cases.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

About the Role

Verkada is investing in channel as a core growth motion, and this role is ground zero for that bet. As Director, Partner Solutions Engineering, you will build Verkada's Channel Solutions Engineering (CSE) function from scratch. This is a rare opportunity to define the strategy, hire the team, establish the playbook, and own the outcomes for how Verkada's partner ecosystem wins technically.

You will report directly to the Worldwide VP of Solutions Engineering and serve as the senior-most technical voice for Verkada's channel organization. You'll work closely with internal stakeholders across Marketing, Product, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Strategy, and Operations. But make no mistake, this is a builder role. If you've stood up a channel SE motion before and are looking for the latitude to do it right, this is your seat.

What You'll Do

• Build the Function: Design and stand up the Channel Solutions Engineering organization from scratch, including headcount model, team structure, coverage strategy, and operating cadence. Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Channel SEs and managers built for scale.
• Establish the CSE Playbook: Define how Verkada engages partners technically, from partner tiering and engagement models to demo standards, technical validation frameworks, and enablement curricula.
• Drive Partner Technical Excellence: Support technical enablement program covering certifications, training, labs, and sandbox environments that turns partners into genuine Verkada experts. Own the partner technical lifecycle from recruitment through activation and ongoing development.
• Shape Go-to-Market Strategy: Build a channel SE motion that complements and extends the direct SE motion. Develop differentiated technical support models across partner types. Champion Verkada's technical positioning in partner-led sales cycles.
• Align Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Channel Sales, Direct SE, Product, and Marketing to align enablement initiatives to product roadmap and business priorities. Define and track KPIs for the CSE function, including partner-influenced pipeline, technical win rates, enablement completion, and certification attainment.
• Serve as the Executive Technical Sponsor: Act as the escalation point and senior technical presence for Verkada's most strategic partner relationships. Represent the partner voice internally, surfacing gaps and driving product feedback loops.

What You Bring

• Industry Experience: 10+ years in pre-sales or solutions engineering, with meaningful time owning complex technical solution design at scale.
• Leadership Experience: 5+ years leading technical pre-sales organizations at the Director level, including management of managers.
• Channel Expertise: Demonstrated experience building or substantially scaling a channel or partner SE motion, ideally from an early or undefined stage. Deep familiarity with reseller ecosystems.
• Technical Depth: Strong fluency across Cloud, Networking, Physical Security, Storage, and Software. Able to credibly engage with both C-suite stakeholders and hands-on architects. Industry certifications a plus.
• Program Rigor: Track record of defining and executing partner enablement programs at scale. Data-driven approach to measuring team performance and reporting to executive leadership.
• Travel: This role requires significant travel, estimated at 50%+, domestic and international, to support partner engagements, team collaboration, and executive meetings.
• Bonus: Physical security industry experience.
• Startup or high-growth company experience.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time