Strategic Account Manager II

Company: IBM Computing
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

IntroductionA career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.Your role and responsibilitiesThe Strategic Account Manager is an outside sales position responsible for developing, managing, and closing business within accounts in our Strategic Accounts segment. The role is responsible for driving the sales cycle from prospect to close, selling the complete HashiCorp software suite to named key accounts and ensuring adoption and consumption of our solutions.HashiCorp's Go to Market strategy is described as ALEER, which stands for Adopt, Land, Expand, Extend, and Renew. The strategic accounts sales team is responsible for Landing new logos, Expanding the initial use case, Extending into new solutions, and Renewing existing contracts.Candidates for this role MUST be located in the San Francisco Bay Area.What you'll do

• Engage new and existing strategic enterprise accounts to demonstrate how they can be more successful with our technology portfolio
• Proactively and efficiently lead resources with dedicated teams, virtual teams, partners, and executive staff around sales opportunities to ensure successful outcomes
• Lead sophisticated enterprise sales campaigns with multiple prospect engagement points in Development, IT Operations, and Security Operations
• Align the overall HashiCorp solution to the customer's business needs, challenges, and technical requirements
• Execute solution and value selling to existing customer base and new prospects
• Articulate and evangelize the vision and positioning of both the company and products
• Build a healthy pipeline of revenue and new logos for your target accounts
• Accurately forecast business on a weekly cadence
• Qualify opportunities based on MEDDPICC
• Connect effectively with management, legal, and deal desk to ensure proper execution of documents and follow company proceduresRequired technical and professional expertise

• Experience in Security, Open Source software business models, proficiency in Cloud and Infrastructure software is a minimum requirement
• Extensive strategic sales and customer development experience with a track record of closing enterprise deals
• Excellent operational discipline, with experience in crafting and completing quarterly and annual business plans and forecasting
• Strong executive presence, interpersonal skills, and credibility
• Experience working in a high-growth company requiring critical thinking and problem solving for business decisions
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales goals
• Proficiency with Salesforce, Clari, Gong, Outreach, Slack, and TableauPreferred technical and professional experience
  • Familiarity with IBM and HashiCorp ProductsIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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