• Chief Revenue Officer

B2B SaaS Chief Revenue Officer Compensation Leadership Partnerships

Alex Buckles

The CRO’s Comp Model for Partner-Sourced Pipeline

Partner-sourced pipeline should pay AEs the same commission as direct deals with full credit, no haircut. Partner managers get separate quota credit from a different comp pool. This eliminates the zero-sum fight and prevents AE sandbagging of partner intros.

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• Partnerships & Roles

Head of Partnerships Hiring Leadership Partner Roles

Alex Buckles

Head of Partnerships: The 2026 Role, Scope, and Hiring Guide

Head of Partnerships in 2026: what the role does, when to hire one, how to structure the role, and how to run a hiring process that doesn’t miss.

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• B2B Partnerships Strategy

B2B SaaS Chief Revenue Officer Leadership Partner Pipeline Partnerships

Alex Buckles

Why Partner Programs Fail: The Five Structural Causes (and How to Fix Them)

Partner programs in B2B SaaS fail for predictable structural reasons, not for lack of effort. The five most common failure causes: missing executive sponsor, unclear partner ICP, no partner-influenced revenue accountability, weak partner activation (especially the motion and reinforcement layers), and absent operational rigor (attribution, forecast cadence, executive reporting). Get one of these wrong and […]

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• Chief Revenue Officer

B2B SaaS Chief Revenue Officer Co-Sell Leadership Partnerships

Alex Buckles

Building the CRO-CPO Relationship That Drives Revenue

The CRO-CPO relationship works when the CRO treats partnerships as a revenue motion and the CPO treats partner pipeline as a forecast. Both sides need a shared operating cadence: weekly partnership pipeline review aligned to the weekly direct forecast call, joint accountability for partner-sourced ARR targets, and a Co-Sell Alignment Specialist running the operational layer between them.

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