Account Director II- Regional Enterprise- Forward Deployed

Lumen Technologies; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen Technologies is hiring an Account Director II- Regional Enterprise to own expansion and modernization across a portfolio of high-profile accounts. You will connect customer priorities to outcomes across network, cloud, security, and managed services, leading cross-functional teams to drive revenue and measurable value.

You will independently plan account strategies, shape commercial outcomes, and coordinate resources with Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Delivery,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of complex B2B sales experience with sustained success building relationships and achieving goals.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience; practical experience with AI-enabled sales tools is preferred.
• Experience owning complex or high-profile accounts and moving opportunities from discovery through close.
• Deep expertise in customer business/financial drivers, networking, cloud, security, managed services, or enterprise tech sales.
• Demonstrated judgment in negotiating product, service, pricing, or terms with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to plan account strategy independently, influence colleagues, and lead cross-functional teams without authority.
• Strong executive communication, business-case development, forecasting, pipeline management, and CRM discipline.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute account strategies for complex Regional Enterprise customers and lead cross-functional pursuit teams.
• Analyze customer business models, priorities, challenges, environment, and funding paths to identify opportunities.
• Build qualified expansion pipeline through executive relationships and proactive discovery.
• Prioritize opportunities based on value, fit, risk, and revenue potential; provide actionable input.
• Lead discovery with executives and stakeholders to define outcomes, value at stake, criteria, and urgency.
• Translate needs into quantified business cases addressing value, investment, and implementation considerations.
• Coordinate resources across teams to align around customer and commercial objectives.
• Maintain rigorous account plans, stakeholder maps, and CRM records.

Skills

Complex B2B sales

Executive communication

Forecasting

CRM discipline

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AI-enabled sales tools

Job description

Account Director II- Regional Enterprise- Forward Deployed

Location: WORKS FROM HOME, CA, US WORKS FROM HOME, WA, US WORKS FROM HOME, UT, US WORKS FROM HOME, NV, US WORKS FROM HOME, TX, US WORKS FROM HOME, AZ, US WORKS FROM HOME, CO, US WORKS FROM HOME, OR, US

Company: Lumen Technologies

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI-ready connectivity, join us today.

The Role

Own expansion and modernization across a portfolio of complex, high-profile Regional Enterprise accounts by connecting customer priorities to measurable outcomes enabled by network, cloud, security, managed services, and related technology solutions.

You independently plan the account approach, create demand, shape commercial outcomes, and lead cross-functional pursuit teams without formal authority. Your deep understanding of customer business and financial priorities, market context, and relevant solutions makes you a trusted specialist who develops customers’ and colleagues’ understanding.

The Main Responsibilities

• Own and execute account strategies for complex or high-profile Regional Enterprise customers, including accounts with significant revenue, broad geographic reach, and diverse needs.
• Analyze each customer’s business model, financial priorities, operating challenges, technology environment, and buying signals to identify whitespace, stakeholders, use cases, and funding paths.
• Build qualified expansion pipeline through executive relationships, proactive discovery, account intelligence, partners, marketing, and focused prospecting.
• Prioritize opportunities and resources based on customer value, solution fit, competitive dynamics, risk, and revenue potential; provide input that improves colleagues’ account approaches.
• Lead consultative discovery with executive, business, technical, operational, and financial stakeholders to define desired outcomes, value at stake, decision criteria, and urgency.
• Translate customer needs into outcome-based solution narratives and quantified business cases addressing value, investment, implementation considerations, risk, and cost of inaction.
• Serve as a recognized expert in one or more business, sales, product, or service areas; develop customer and colleague understanding through informed points of view and best practices.
• Direct and coordinate Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Delivery, Marketing, channel, and partner resources around clear customer and commercial objectives.
• Own expansion opportunities through qualification, solution validation, proposal, negotiation, close, and transition to activation.
• Exercise broad authority and moderate-to-considerable discretion, within company governance, to shape and negotiate product, service, pricing, and commercial terms with senior customer stakeholders.
• Establish mutual action plans, stakeholder commitments, milestones, and next steps; identify customer risk, competitive threats, and dependencies early.
• Lead small-to-medium cross-functional pursuit teams without supervisory authority and hold contributors accountable for agreed actions and customer outcomes.
• Maintain rigorous account plans, stakeholder maps, pipeline coverage, qualification, forecasts, next steps, and CRM records.
• Use AI, agents, and automated workflows to improve research, prioritization, meeting preparation, follow-through, and opportunity management; validate outputs and apply sound judgment.
• Share customer and market insight, coach peers on proven practices, and help improve sales execution and solution fit.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• 6+ years of complex B2B sales experience, or equivalent evidence of capability, with sustained success growing existing customer relationships and achieving sales goals.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience; practical experience with AI-enabled sales tools is preferred.
• Experience owning complex or high-profile accounts and advancing multi-stakeholder technology opportunities from discovery through negotiation and close.
• Deep expertise in one or more relevant domains, such as customer business and financial drivers, networking, cloud, security, managed services, or enterprise technology sales.
• Demonstrated judgment and discretion in structuring and negotiating product, service, pricing, or commercial terms with senior customer stakeholders.
• Ability to plan account strategy independently, influence colleagues’ approaches, and lead cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Strong executive communication, business-case development, forecasting, pipeline management, and CRM discipline.

Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges

• $109,649 - $146,192 in these states: AZ UT
• $115,133 - $153,507 in these states: CO NV OR
• $120,617 - $160,812 in these states: CA TX WA

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

Life at Lumen is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI-focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win.

If you are selected for a position, there will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements. For more information on these checks, please refer to the Post Offer section of our FAQ page . Job-related concerns identified during the background screening may disqualify you from the new position or your current role. Background results will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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