Hybrid Strategic Account Manager

Posted 5 days ago

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About the role

  • Strategic Account Manager role focused on managing key telco accounts for Wind River. Requires strong experience in the Telco & Networking sector and account management with a presence in the Greater Seattle area.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, build and grow an effective presence as a trusted advisor within target accounts and become a trusted advisor to all customer touch points
  • Develop strategic account plans and opportunity plans focused on growth and sustainable, recurring revenue streams
  • Utilize a team approach to execute account level and opportunity level strategies
  • Align internal resources (Engineering, Professional Services, Product Management, Customer Success) to execute against vision and strategy
  • Evangelize Wind River’s solution portfolio throughout the entire territory to uncover new growth opportunities
  • Position Wind River in all direct sales engagements, negotiations and RFPs
  • Understand client business models and technology challenges
  • Leverage Wind River’s strategic partner ecosystem and collaborate on mutually successful sales strategies
  • Participate in industry events for relationship building and new opportunity discovery
  • Collaborate with global sales colleagues to establish and share best practices for continuous improvement
  • Accurately report opportunity status and forecast revenue on a quarterly and annual basis

Requirements

  • Comprehensive understanding of the Telco & Networking sector gained through a minimum of 10 years of experience within account management, ideally in the Cloud and Open-Source software industry
  • Major account planning experience involving the negotiation of multi-$M committed deals
  • Experience as an individual contributor, consistently exceeding assigned quota
  • Ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders and senior management
  • Ability to operate in a matrix environment
  • Deployment of solution selling sales approach to technical and executive-level decision makers, using creative business thinking and thought leadership
  • Proven experience dealing with complex business and software development processes
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
  • Bachelor’s Degree (EE/CS preferred), MBA preferred
  • Must reside in Greater Seattle area with ability to be present on site
  • United States Citizenship or Permanent Resident of the U.S. required

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • RRSP matching for financial security
  • Flexible time-off policies for work-life balance
  • Employee assistance program for mental well-being
  • Learning benefits, including a LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars

Job title

Strategic Account Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$275,000 - $350,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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