Commercial and partnerships
Commercial director
Leads sales, customer success, partners and marketing.
- Level
- L6 Director
- Accountable for outcomes at scale.
- Industry equivalent
- Director, VP
- Typically 15+ years, has led leaders
- Role family
- Commercial and partnerships
- Hiring window
- Build-out
- Q4 2027 to Q3 2029 · Register interest
What we expect at L6: Accountable for outcomes at scale.
Leads teams and leaders, aligns strategy, and ensures delivery, security, and culture across domains.
Impact and scope
What you own and how far your decisions reach.
- Sets priorities and owns outcomes for a major business area.
- Ensures teams deliver measurable mission and customer value.
- Balances strategy, execution, and organizational health.
Execution and delivery
How you plan, execute, and ship.
- Builds operating cadence: planning, reviews, incidents, and retrospectives.
- Allocates resources effectively and manages cross-team dependencies.
- Ensures predictable delivery and operational excellence.
Craft and quality
Correctness, maintainability, and professionalism.
- Holds the bar for quality, safety, and professional standards.
- Funds technical debt reduction and reliability work.
- Creates environments where teams can do great work.
Collaboration
How you communicate, align, and work with others.
- Communicates strategy clearly and repeatedly across the organization.
- Builds partnerships and resolves conflict with empathy and firmness.
- Represents Knogin with integrity to customers and stakeholders.
Security and trust
How you protect data, users, and the organization.
- Owns security and compliance outcomes for the organization.
- Ensures governance, risk management, and audit readiness.
- Makes trust measurable and operational.
Growth and leadership
How you learn, mentor, and raise the bar.
- Develops leaders and builds succession plans.
- Shapes culture through hiring, coaching, and clear expectations.
- Creates systems that make excellence repeatable.
Commercial and partnerships
Customer success, partnerships, and go-to-market for sensitive mission environments.
Typical titles at L6
Commercial director | Director of partnerships
Examples of the work
- Mission-fit discovery and requirements translation
- Customer success and long-term adoption
- Partnerships, procurement, and vendor governance
- Training, enablement, and stakeholder comms
Service lens
- Never oversell: trust is built by accuracy, not hype.
- Security and governance are part of customer value, not a blocker.
- Clear expectations prevent risk in procurement, rollout, and operations.
Register interest
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