[Hiring] Head of International Partnerships @TurbineOne

Role Description

As Head of International Partnerships, you will lead TurbineOne's strategy for identifying, evaluating, building, onboarding, enabling, managing, and scaling strategic partnerships that accelerate growth across Europe and MENA. You'll be responsible for expanding our ecosystem across defense primes, technology companies, systems integrators, OEMs, and venture-backed DefenseTech innovators. This is a leadership role that directly supports revenue generation by improving market access, strengthening customer propositions, enabling joint pursuits, and helping TurbineOne's sales organization create, advance, and win opportunities.

To excel in this role, you should thrive on analyzing markets, decoding competitive dynamics, identifying mutually beneficial alliances, and turning those relationships into measurable commercial outcomes. You will work side-by-side with Sales and collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Government Relations, and Executive Leadership. Prior experience as a direct, quota-carrying salesperson is required so that you understand firsthand what sales teams need from a partner, how complex defense opportunities progress, and how partnerships should contribute to pipeline and revenue without competing with Sales for customer ownership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Alliance Management, Sales, or related commercial leadership roles, with meaningful responsibility for international markets.
• Significant experience within the defense, national security, aerospace, or DefenseTech ecosystem; direct DefenseTech experience is strongly preferred over general enterprise technology experience.
• Prior experience as a direct, quota-carrying salesperson with personal responsibility for pipeline development, opportunity management, forecasting, and revenue attainment.
• Demonstrated understanding of how complex defense technology sales progress from initial customer engagement through evaluation, capture, procurement, negotiation, and award.
• Demonstrated success identifying, activating, building, and managing strategic partnerships that contribute to measurable pipeline, revenue, customer access, or program wins.
• Meaningful experience working across European defense markets (MENA a plus), including familiarity with defense primes, systems integrators, OEMs, national procurement environments, and industry teaming structures.
• Strong understanding of international business development, distribution models, channel partnerships, joint go-to-market motions, and how partners should support—not replace—the direct sales organization.
• Experience structuring and reviewing U.S. and international commercial agreements such as NDAs, teaming agreements, reseller agreements, distribution agreements, and strategic alliance agreements.
• Working knowledge of ITAR, export controls, intellectual property considerations, government contracting compliance, and other requirements relevant to international defense business.

Requirements

• Own the end-to-end development and execution of TurbineOne's international partnership program, with primary responsibility for Europe and MENA.
• Identify and secure technology, channel, integration, distribution, manufacturing, and strategic partners that improve customer access, market reach, technical differentiation, or probability of win.
• Forge deep, long-term relationships with European defense primes, systems integrators, OEMs, emerging DefenseTech companies, and relevant government and NATO innovation organizations.
• Build partnerships around specific commercial objectives, target accounts, programs, and pursuits that help TurbineOne sales teams create qualified pipeline, gain customer access, and improve win probability.
• Establish scalable partnership processes, systems, governance, playbooks, and operating models that can support future regional or sector-focused partner managers.
• Lead and coordinate commercial and strategic diligence for prospective European and MENA partnerships.
• Evaluate partner capabilities, reputation, technical fit, financial stability, genuine customer access, competitive positioning, incentives, and execution risk.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical, operational, legal, contracts, security, compliance, financial, and business reviews prior to partnership approval.
• Develop Go/No-Go recommendations and executive decision briefings that clearly articulate the expected strategic and commercial value of each partnership.
• Structure and negotiate partnership frameworks including NDAs, Teaming Agreements, Memorandums of Understanding, Reseller Agreements, Distribution Agreements, and Strategic Alliance Agreements.
• Work with contracts, legal, and outside counsel (as appropriate) to document, review, and finalize agreements.
• Build repeatable partnership playbooks, onboarding processes, governance models, sales-facing rules of engagement, and success metrics tied to pipeline, customer access, and partner performance.
• Expand TurbineOne's reach across priority European and MENA defense markets through strategic partnerships that complement the direct sales motion.
• Identify priority countries, defense programs, customer segments, and opportunities where a partner can materially accelerate access, contracting, integration, or adoption.
• Develop partner enablement strategies that empower partners to accurately position, support, and grow TurbineOne while preserving clear customer and opportunity ownership with the sales organization.
• Establish and progress joint go-to-market planning, co-selling, demonstrations, capture efforts, proposals, and marketing initiatives tied to specific customers, programs, and measurable commercial outcomes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Health and wellness benefits.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.

Company Description

TurbineOne builds AI-powered software for frontline operators working in defense, national security, and tactical environments. Our Frontline Perception System (FPS) helps teams process and act on critical information in low-connectivity, real-world conditions. We’re a fast-moving DefenseTech startup building products that matter in mission-critical environments.