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# Partner Manager (Texas) at MinIO

- **Company:** MinIO
- **Location:** US, TX
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio/jobs/5394586008

## Job description

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects across core, edge, and cloud. Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, MinIO is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications, and autonomous agents secure, persist, and unlock the full value of their data.

We're looking for a Partner Manager to join our growing team and help build out our channel partner ecosystem in the United States. This is a great opportunity for a partner management professional with a few years of hands-on experience who's ready to take on more ownership, work closely with senior leadership, and grow their career in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.

What You Will Do:

Channel Development:

- Identify, recruit, and onboard new channel partners to expand MinIO's market presence.
- Nurture and develop existing channel relationships for mutual growth and success.
- Grow Partner-led opportunity Pipeline & achieve Partner Attached ARR targets.

Strategic Planning:

- Collaborate with internal teams to align channel strategies with overall business objectives.
- Develop and implement strategic plans to drive joint marketing, sales, and product initiatives with channel partners.

Partner Enablement:

- Provide training and resources to channel partners to enhance their understanding of MinIO's solutions and optimize their sales capabilities.
- Collaborate with partners on go-to-market strategies and co-selling opportunities.

Performance Analysis:

- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of channel partnerships.
- Analyze data and feedback to identify areas for improvement and optimize partner performance.
- Maintain an accurate pipeline and forecast of your partner’s MinIO business opportunities.

Collaboration and Communication:

- Foster open lines of communication between MinIO and channel partners to ensure a seamless and productive relationship.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to address partner needs and resolve any issues promptly
- Close collaboration with the Sales & customer-facing team to drive Partner-attached opportunities to closure.

Your Skills and Experience:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field.
- 5+ years of proven experience in channel partner management, within the technology and storage industry with deep experience in software defined services
- Deep understanding of the US market and channel dynamics.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

What We Offer:

- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- 401K with 3% Contribution
- Pre-IPO Stock Options
- At least 12 Public Holidays
- Flexible Time Off

## Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

## About MinIO

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MinIO provides high-performance, S3-compatible object storage purpose-built for AI, analytics, and cloud-native workloads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding $126.3M, last round $103M raised ~4 years ago)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Garima Kapoor, Anand Babu “AB” Periasamy, Harshavardhana

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data Infrastructure / Object Storage
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO), AI/ML teams, analytics platforms
- **Mission**: Remove every barrier between organizations and their data, enabling secure, sovereign, AI-ready infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[MinIO AIStor](https://www.min.io/)**: High-performance object store with native S3 compatibility, consistent sub-10ms latency, exabyte-scale scalability, and 99.999999999% durability. Designed for AI training, inference, and analytics. Includes zero-touch operations, self-healing architecture, and 40% lower TCO.
- **Context Memory for AI Inference**: Purpose-built memory layer that delivers 95%+ GPU utilization, 50% lower cost per token, and average savings of $2M per 100 GPUs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $126.3M total funding raised (Series B, last round $103M)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors listed on company site but not named in public summaries; strategic partner Databricks (named 2026 ISV Storage Partner of the Year)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO
  - 32.9K+ GitHub stars, 53.3K+ community members, 1.4K+ contributors
  - Peak throughput of 19.2 TiB/s
  - Awarded 2026 Databricks ISV Storage Partner of the Year
  - Expanding globally with open roles in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, France, and across the US

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched performance**: Sub-10ms latency and ability to saturate any hardware (drive IOPS to network throughput)
- **Limitless scalability**: Single flat namespace scales across clusters, data centers, and clouds to exabyte level
- **Enterprise-grade reliability**: 11 nines durability, self-healing, zero-touch operations
- **Ecosystem integration**: Native support for PyTorch, Iceberg, and all major AI frameworks; richest S3 API support
- **Cost efficiency**: 40% lower total cost of ownership compared to legacy storage

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating AI transformation with a data foundation that unifies edge, core, and cloud environments
- Enabling zero-copy hybrid data architectures for analytics and agentic computing
- Deepening partnerships with AI/ML platforms (e.g., Databricks, NVIDIA) and expanding into new geographies

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “hackers” who are problem solvers, kind, and minimalist. Emphasis on empathy, open discourse, rapid prototyping, data-driven change, and going above and beyond for customers.
- **Work environment**: Remote-first, globally distributed. Offices in Redwood City, CA (hybrid for some roles).
- **Benefits**: Medical, vision, dental insurance; paid maternity and paternity leave; $25,000 basic life insurance; long-term disability; unlimited vacation plus 12 paid holidays; 401(k) with match.
- **Diversity**: Hiring focused solely on talent and qualifications, regardless of background or demographics.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong open-source community (32.9K GitHub stars), rapid prototyping, and minimal overhead in product and process.

## Sources
1. [MinIO Careers Page](https://www.min.io/careers)
2. [MinIO Official Site](https://www.min.io/)
3. [MinIO Job Board (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio)
4. [MinIO About Page](https://www.minio.io/about)
5. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/minio)

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