The role works directly with senior alliance, ecosystem, partnering, and business development executives across the world''s largest technology vendors, cloud providers, systems integrators, and consulting organizations, helping them navigate topics such as alliance optimization, ecosystem development, co-sell and co-growth models, ecosystem investment, partner profitability, funding programs, ecosystem influence, and the role of strategic partnerships in an AI-driven market. IDC is currently able to employ remote workers in the following states: Arizona (AZ), California (CA), Colorado (CO), Connecticut (CT), Washington D.C. (DC), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Kansas (KS), Massachusetts (MA), Maryland (MD), Maine (ME), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Ohio (OH), Oregon (OR), Pennsylvania (PA), Rhode Island (RI), South Carolina (SC), Tennessee (TN), Texas (TX), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA), Vermont (VT), Washington (WA), and Wisconsin (WI).