Director, Global Alliances – Accenture

Headquarters: USA - Remote About Ping Identity: At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it. Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear. While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work. We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management. Ping Identity is seeking a strategic, commercially minded, and highly influential Director, Global Alliances – Accenture to own and accelerate our relationship with Accenture worldwide. This is a high-impact global leadership role—not a regional partner-management position. You will serve as Ping’s single accountable alliance leader for Accenture, shaping the global strategy, executive relationship, operating model, and joint go-to-market plan across Accenture’s Identity, Security, Technology, Song, industry, cloud, delivery, and managed-services organizations. The successful candidate will turn a complex global relationship into a focused, repeatable growth engine—aligning executives, mobilizing Ping’s teams, and helping Accenture make Ping the identity platform of choice in strategic transformation programs. This is a hands-on builder role. You will craft the strategy, create the operating model, and drive execution from executive alignment through customer outcomes. You will build top-down and bottoms-up engagement and convert shared priorities into strategic collaboration agreements, joint investment plans, and measurable results. What you will own Global alliance strategy and executive leadership • Define and execute a multi-year global Accenture alliance strategy aligned to Ping’s corporate priorities, growth objectives, product strategy, and regional plans. • Establish trusted relationships with Accenture’s global and regional executives across Identity, Cybersecurity, Technology, Song, cloud, industry, delivery, and managed services. • Act as Ping’s primary global Accenture leadership point and orchestrate executive alignment when priorities, resources, commercial interests, or customer pursuits require senior intervention. • Build and maintain a joint annual business plan with clear priorities, investments, owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes. • Create a global-to-local operating model that gives AMER, EMEA, and APJ teams a common strategy while allowing appropriate regional and country-level activation. • Drive GTM Acceleration, ensuring Ping is front-and-center with Accenture SAL’s and CAL’s across industry verticals. Strategic engagement and collaboration agreements • Build a deliberate, multi-threaded engagement model with Accenture’s global leadership, practice executives, industry leaders, regional sponsors, account executives, and delivery leaders. • Create executive alignment around a small number of strategic priorities, including the business case, mutual value, investment requirements, customer outcomes, and path to