Sales Strategic Account Manager II Professional San Jose, US

Avature; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 243,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company as a Strategic Account Manager, where you'll lead enterprise sales efforts and drive growth within key accounts. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology solutions, empowering organizations to optimize their cloud environments. You'll engage with clients, articulate the value of our offerings, and build lasting relationships. With a focus on strategic sales, you'll be instrumental in shaping the future of cloud solutions. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Training resources

Diverse employee resource groups

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic sales with a track record of closing enterprise deals.
• Proficiency in Cloud and Infrastructure software is required.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales cycle from prospect to close, selling HashiCorp software suite.
• Engage strategic enterprise accounts to demonstrate technology benefits.

Skills

Sales Strategy

Cloud Computing

Security Solutions

Customer Development

Salesforce

Negotiation Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Salesforce

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 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 responsibilities

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!

This role needs to 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

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

None

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

Familiarity with HashiCorp and IBM products and services

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

Strategic Account Manager II

Date posted

08-May-2025

Job ID

33030

City / Township / Village

San Jose

State / Province

California

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Remote

Area of work

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

243,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

307,800.00

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?