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# Director, Channel Sales at Posit

- **Company:** Posit
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $276k–$364k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://posit.co/job-detail/?gh_jid=8003538003

## Job description

Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corp on a mission to create open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. We're building a company designed to thrive for 100 years.

Our Partner Ecosystem team drives how Posit reaches new markets through commercial, delivery, and embedded technology partnerships. We're looking for a Director, Channel Partner Sales to own our worldwide channel partner program, from strategy and recruiting through partner enablement, working closely with our Alliances, Sales, and Customer Success teams.

## YOUR IMPACT

Why this role exists: to build and lead the Posit Partner Program, recruiting and enabling the right partners, building solutions they can sell repeatably, and giving them a clear, metrics-backed path to profitability with Posit. You are responsible for:

- Owning partner selection and prioritization for the channel segment, in alignment with corporate priorities and team capacity.
- Serving as the executive point of contact for strategic channel partners; sponsoring GTM initiatives and resolving cross-functional blockers.
- Defining the GTM motion for channel partners, including co-marketing, MDF, quarterly plans, and rules of engagement, and leading annual partner planning while owning a worldwide channel revenue target.
- Recruiting and activating new channel partners in key industry verticals including Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Public Sector, and in the ecosystems of key alliances including Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS, owning the channel-partner segment directly within those alliances while coordinating alliance-level strategy with existing alliance owners.
- Building repeatable industry solutions with partners, and defining partner-facing metrics and incentive structures that show them how to build a profitable, scalable business on Posit.

## HOW YOU'LL COLLABORATE

You'll be the go-to owner of channel strategy while working closely across the partner org to keep recruiting, activation, and delivery connected:

- Partner closely with the team on partner onboarding, technical certification, and sales enablement.
- Lead a growing team, starting with a Partner Sales Manager focused on revenue execution and deal registration.
- Drive consistency in deal registration and report on channel performance to leadership.
- Act as internal champion to customer facing teams on the benefits of working with channel partners with our customer base and in new opportunities.

## WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- Channel sales experience, including owning a worldwide channel partner revenue number and consistently exceeding sales targets.
- Track record of personally recruiting and building with channel partners. This is both a builder-recruiter role and a global program owner role.
- Demonstrated success designing joint solutions or offerings with partners, backed by clear, partner-facing success metrics.
- Experience developing partner economics and incentive models that partners can build a business around.
- Understanding of the data science ecosystem and possible life sciences industry experience
- Exceptional ability to engage and influence partner and internal C-level stakeholders.
- Experience managing or mentoring partner-facing team members.
- Prior experience in a fast-paced technology company.

## YOUR FIRST YEAR

Within 1 month, you'll...

- Get involved in active deals and build a clear view of the channel program, including the partner landscape and key relationships across Alliances, Sales and Customer Success, and your Partner Sales Manager.
- Learn Posit's open-source data science ecosystem and the industry solutions we bring to Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Public Sector.

Within 3 months, you'll...

- Deliver a clear partner recruitment strategy across target vertical industries (Life Sciences, Financial Services, Public Sector) and alliance ecosystems (Databricks, Snowflake, AWS).
- Define partner selection criteria and the initial GTM motion and rules of engagement for channel partners.

Within 6 months, you'll...

- Land and activate the first newly recruited partners.
- Ship the first repeatable industry solution package for life sciences, with an aligned set of target accounts
- Have an enablement motion in place so newly recruited partners can ramp and start selling quickly.

Within 12 months, you'll...

- Hit an established worldwide channel revenue and pipeline target for the segment.
- Own the annual partner planning cycle end to end, from strategy through execution.
- Have a clear point of view on how the partner organization should scale to support continued worldwide growth.

Posit offers competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset. The hiring range includes base salary and commission. In addition, we offer an annual cash bonus, targeted at 10% of base pay, that pays out based on company performance and a cash grant that vests over 4 years. This hiring range assumes that the job will be performed in the United States. This role has an expected 60/40 pay mix.

Hiring Range $275,833—$364,100 USD

Working at Posit:

- We welcome all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.
- We prioritize giving ourselves “focus time” to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.
- We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills, influence, and leadership as a result of working at Posit.
- We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software.  We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now.
- Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®, which means our open-source mission is codified into our charter. As a result, our corporate decisions balance the community's interests, customers, employees, and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters[here](https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/01/29/rstudio-pbc/).

Notable:

We offer competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being. These benefits apply to full-time positions only.

- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families! Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
- Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt in to our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
- Posit's gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
- All full-time employees are eligible for 401k enrollment starting on day one.
- After six months of employment, Posit provides a substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.
- An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
- We are a 100% distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Boston office.
- We offer a $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if you prefer to work away from home.
- Our Lifestyle Savings Account offers an initial deposit of $1800 and then an additional quarterly stipend of $375 to cover the costs of professional development, wellness, financial health, charitable giving, and remote work support.
- We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 15 paid company holidays.

Are you excited about this role but not sure if your experience aligns with every qualification in the job description? That’s okay. We know multiple perspectives are essential for a thriving organization and we'd still love to hear from you!

Posit is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

Posit Software, PBC participates in the federal E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of newly hired U.S. based employees. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates and is only initiated upon hire.

[E-Verify Participation Notice](https://posit.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_Eng_Es.pdf) (English/Spanish)

[Right to Work Notice](https://posit.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IER_RightToWorkPoster_Eng_Es.pdf) (English/Spanish)

## #LI-REMOTE

## About Posit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Posit (formerly RStudio) creates open-source and enterprise software for data science, enabling individuals and teams to understand data and make better decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Public Benefit Corporation, Certified B Corp)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: J. J. Allaire (creator of ColdFusion)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data Science Software / Developer Tools
- **Target customers**: Enterprise teams, data scientists, analysts, scientific researchers (B2B, B2C for open-source users)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We help the world make sense of data.” The company is run for the benefit of customers, employees, and the community, with a fiduciary responsibility to address social, economic, and environmental needs. [posit.co](https://posit.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **RStudio IDE**: The flagship integrated development environment for R, now part of a broader ecosystem.
- **Positron**: A free, purpose-built code editor for data science with Python and R, featuring AI integration. [posit.co](https://posit.co/)
- **Posit Workbench**: A centrally managed environment allowing data scientists to use their preferred IDE (Positron, RStudio, VS Code, Jupyter) with scalable compute and AI assistance.
- **Posit Connect**: A publishing platform for deploying apps, dashboards, APIs, and reports directly from the IDE, with governance and security controls.
- **Posit Package Manager**: Curated repositories for R and Python packages with vulnerability reporting, blocking rules, and compliance snapshots.
- **Posit AI**: An AI coding assistant embedded in Positron and RStudio, designed to act as a collaborative partner for data analysis. [posit.co](https://posit.co/)
- **Open-source libraries**: The tidyverse, tidymodels, Quarto, Shiny, and various Python libraries for data presentation and interactivity. [opensource.posit.co](https://opensource.posit.co/)
- **Quarto**: Open-source technical publishing system for reproducible documents, presentations, and websites (R, Python, Julia, Observable).
- **Shiny**: Framework for building reactive web applications using R or Python.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated at **$25M–$50M** (LinkedIn data). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/posit-software)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors mentioned; company is independently owned. Key technology partners include Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS. [posit.co](https://posit.co/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Trusted by 52 of the Fortune 100 and 10,000+ customers. [posit.co](https://posit.co/)
  - Headcount: ~448 employees (as of mid-2026), with yearly growth of +5.7%. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/posit-software)
  - Recent product launches: Positron, Posit Connect Cloud, Ellmer, Chatlas (AI tools), and expanded Python & Jupyter support.
  - Active job postings increased 350% month-over-month (9 open roles). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/posit-software)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source heritage**: Core tools (RStudio, tidyverse, Quarto, Shiny) are free and community-driven, creating a massive user base and ecosystem lock-in.
- **Public Benefit Corporation / B Corp**: Legally committed to social and environmental goals, not just shareholder value. Builds trust and attracts mission-driven talent.
- **Language agnosticism**: Supports R, Python, Julia, and Observable, avoiding vendor lock-in and appealing to diverse data science teams.
- **Enterprise governance**: Offers IT-controlled package management, security, and compliance that large organizations require.
- **Long-term independence**: No exit strategy; company is run for the long haul, giving customers and employees stability. [posit.co](https://posit.co/about)

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Embedding AI agents (Posit AI) directly into the IDE to accelerate data analysis while maintaining reproducibility and transparency.
- **Platform unification**: Moving from fragmented tools to a single platform (Workbench, Connect, Package Manager) that serves both data scientists and IT.
- **Cloud expansion**: Launching Posit Connect Cloud and deeper integrations with major cloud/data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, AWS). [posit.co](https://posit.co/)
- **Open-source leadership**: Continuing to invest in and maintain core open-source projects (Quarto, tidyverse, Shiny) while expanding Python support.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: 100% remote from the start; employees manage their own calendars and energy. Home office stipends and co-working reimbursements provided. [posit.co](https://posit.co/about/careers)
- **Inclusive benefits**: 100% medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and families; coverage includes fertility, mental health, and gender-affirming care. [posit.co](https://posit.co/about/careers)
- **Financial well-being**: Competitive compensation, annual bonus, and robust 401(k) matching after six months. [posit.co](https://posit.co/about/careers)
- **Work-life balance**: Flexible time off policy that encourages unplugging and recharging.
- **Strong culture ratings**: Employer rating 4.7/5.0 on LinkedIn (29 reviews), with 4.9 for work-life balance and culture. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/posit-software)
- **Mission-driven**: Work on open-source software that helps people solve important problems with data, in a generous and transparent company.
- **Diversity focus**: Explicitly encourages people from all backgrounds to apply; values multiple perspectives.

## Sources
1. [posit.co/about](https://posit.co/about) – Company overview, history, and B Corp status
2. [posit.co](https://posit.co/) – Product descriptions, enterprise platform, customer metrics
3. [posit.co/about/careers](https://posit.co/about/careers) – Careers page with benefits and culture
4. [linkedin.com/company/posit-software](https://www.linkedin.com/company/posit-software) – Employee count, revenue range, ratings, job postings
5. [opensource.posit.co](https://opensource.posit.co/) – Open-source projects and mission

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