Sales Account Technology Leader - Washington, DC Professional Multiple Cities

Avature; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking an Account Technology Leader in Washington, DC. This role involves guiding clients through innovative solutions and fostering collaboration within teams. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and technical skills, with a focus on the Federal Civilian market. Join a dynamic environment that encourages growth and innovation while working with cutting-edge technology.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Generous paid time off

Training and educational resources

Diverse employee resource groups

Qualifications

• Proven leader with experience in technical sales.
• Deep technical expertise across various technologies.
• Experience with consultative sales techniques.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate a collaborative culture and drive product adoption.
• Engage customers in workshops and lead technology experience.
• Maintain industry expertise to solve technology problems.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Technical Expertise

Sales Techniques

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Cloud

Business Automation

Infrastructure

Job description

With a consultative approach, you'll uncover clients' most pressing technology pain points and guide them to solutions mapped to IBM's people, products, and services. Being a natural leader, strategic systems thinker, and business influencer, you'll orchestrate resources within IBM and /or our Partners to bring those solutions to life.

Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. As the virtual leader of a team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that compels our clients to invest in IBM's products and services. ATLs drive the client’s innovation agenda by leveraging IBM Research and engaging in PoCs and first-of-a-kind projects. They will have an entrepreneurial mindset to lead IBM Client Engineering teams to co-create with their client. Collaboration with and leadership of IBM brands is an integral role of the ATL.

Your role and responsibilities

The Account Technical Leader (ATL) is a Pre-Sales / Solution Architect Technical Leadership role dedicated to IBM’s most strategic clients. Account Technical Leaders create and maintain proven, trusted technical advisor relationships at all levels within the client’s organization to assist customers in understanding, designing, and deploying innovative solutions that address complex business problems. This ATL role will focus on the Federal Civilian market.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Cultivating Collaborative Culture: Cultivate a growth mindset to foster a collaborative and resilient results-oriented culture with a passion for winning.
• Product Adoption: Help land and expand adoption of products across IBM's portfolio by demonstrating value in the context of clients' business, industry, and competitor landscape.
• Client Technology Experience: Own and lead a client's experience of IBM technology and define use-cases from their technical strategies.
• Customer Engagement: Engage customers in experiential workshops and collaborate with Client Engineering and Customer Success teams to shape sessions that produce transformation-inspiring prototypes, compelling long-term investment.
• Industry Expertise: Maintain deep expertise in industry trends and their contemporary application to solving enterprise-scale technology problems.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Technical Expertise:Deep technical and architectural expertise across a variety of technologies, including cloud (with general container skills), business automation, and infrastructure.
• Proven Leadership:A proven leader with a history of coordinating an array of technical sales talent through demand generation, deal progression, post-close deployment, and ongoing, increasing adoption of deployed solutions.
• Communication and Collaboration Skills:Palpable people, communication, and collaboration skills, with a proven record of networking, co-creating, and influencing as the technical expert throughout the successful closure, and post-closure expansion of complex technology sales cycles (c. $100k - $1 mil+ deals).
• Sales Techniques:Experience of successfully applying Consultative/Challenger sales techniques that 'lead to solutions' vs. 'lead with solutions.
• Agile and Best Practices:Solid experience of using agile and other contemporary best practices (e.g., DevOps and design thinking) to successfully deliver in a way that's both nimble and fast.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• IBM Technology Proficiency:Proficiency in a wide range of IBM's technology solutions, including Cloud, Data & AI, and more (training in IBM's products will be provided).

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Job Title

Account Technology Leader - Washington, DC

Date posted

12-May-2025

Job ID

33351

City / Township / Village

No City, ALEXANDRIA, ANNAPOLIS, Chantilly, WASHINGTON, Reston, Arlington, McLean, HERNDON, Bethesda, MANASSAS, Vienna, No City, Tysons Corner

State / Province

Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

128,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

220,000.00

Position type

Professional

Up to 40% or 2 days a week (home on weekends- based on project requirements)

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?