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Are you passionate about AI and eager to transform the IT landscape? Join our dynamic Cloud & AI Platforms team as we lead the charge in AI transformation. As trusted advisors, we help customers modernize their infrastructure, optimize operations, and drive innovation with Cloud & AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities. Whether it's migrating and modernizing estates to be AI-ready, accelerating innovation with AI agents and platforms, empowering development teams with AI, or unifying and modernizing data estates, we help customers build technology solutions to achieve their business needs.
In this role, you'll be at the forefront of AI growth and disruption, guiding customers through their AI journey and helping them achieve their strategic goals. You'll ensure customers can fully harness the transformative potential of AI to stay ahead of the competition. If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive AI transformation, we invite you to join us and be part of this exciting journey!
We are leading a high-growth, AI-powered sales team — one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. We are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how our largest customers adopt technology to drive growth and innovation.
In the Cloud & AI platforms organization, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do.
If you thrive in a fast-paced, environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how the Cloud & AI platforms team can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.
As a Cloud & AI Solution Area Specialist you will be a solution sales leader within our Cloud & AI Platforms organization working with our most important and largest enterprise customers across a V-team of account executives, technical, partner and consulting resources.
Responsibilities
- Lead Customer Engagements: Act as the Cloud & AI sales lead, guiding customers through cloud transformation across infrastructure, data, and AI platforms. Address business and technical needs with demos, whiteboarding, and solution storytelling.
- Own and Convert Pipeline: Manage forecast and pipeline rigorously from early-stage to close. Use tools like Industry Account Plans (IAP), Landing Experience Plans (LXP), and checklists to execute territory planning and strategies and drive revenue.
- Orchestrate Across Teams: Partner with Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Cloud Solution Architects, and partners to co-sell, validate solutions, and ensure successful deployment through the Cloud & AI Marketplace.
- Accelerate Decisions: Engage decision-makers with clear business cases using Cloud & AI Pricing Calculator, ROI, and TCO tools. Scope proofs of concept and lead customers from commitment to consumption.
- Inspire and Influence: Bring technical fluency and inclusive leadership to virtual teams. Solve challenges with expertise in virtualization, cloud-native tech, data modernization, and AI.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
- OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (i.e., MBA), Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technology-related sales or account management experience.
- 4+ years solution or services sales experience.
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