Sales Strategic Account Manager I Professional Columbus, US

Avature; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 135,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Strategic Account Manager to engage with enterprise accounts, driving sales for HashiCorp's cloud solutions. This position demands strong sales expertise, a Bachelor's Degree, and a proactive approach to managing client relationships and delivering tangible business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in Security and Open Source software business models.
• Extensive strategic sales experience with a track record of closing enterprise deals.
• Strong executive presence and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage and close business within strategic accounts.
• Drive sales cycles from prospect to close for HashiCorp's suite of software.
• Engage new and existing enterprise accounts to demonstrate the value of solutions.

Skills

Sales Cycle Management

Security Expertise

Cloud Solutions Knowledge

Strategic Customer Development

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Clari

Gong

Outreach

Slack

Tableau

Job description

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges intoindustry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking newpossibilities,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 responsibilities

About the role

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 will NEED to be located in Pittsburgh, PA.

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

Accurately qualify opportunities based on MEDDPICC

Effectively connect with management, legal and deal desk to ensure proper execution of documents and correct process and follow instructions or recommendations set by these teams and company management

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required 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 strategic customer development experience with a track record of closing enterprise deals

Excellent operational discipline, crafting and completing quarterly and annual business plans and forecasting.

Strong executive presence, interpersonal skills, and credibility

Experience working for a high growth company where critical thinking and problem solving were required on daily basis to help contribute to significant business decisions

Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding assigned annual/quarterly goals and targets

Outstanding Salesforce and Clari hygiene along with proficiency using Gong, Outreach, Slack, and Tableau

Preferred technical and professional experience

Hiring manager and Recruiter should collaborate to create the relevant verbiage.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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.

Job Title

Strategic Account Manager I

Date posted

18-Jun-2025

Job ID

42327

City / Township / Village

Columbus

State / Province

Ohio

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Remote

Area of work

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

135,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

232,000.00

Position type

Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?