Our client, located in San Jose, CA is looking for a Vice President of Sales. Reporting to the CEO, this executive will lead sales strategy across neocloud and strategic accounts for client’s portfolio of open networking switch platforms.
Job Title: Vice President of Sales
Location: San Jose, CA
Salary Range: $290K - $300K
Shift: 1st shift
What’s the Job?
- Building executive relationships at the largest cloud and AI infrastructure customers, closing complex deals, and instilling the team, process, and forecasting discipline of a scaling sales organization.
- Personally lead engagements with C-level and VP-level decision-makers at strategic cloud, AI infrastructure, and large enterprise accounts.
- Negotiate and close large, complex supply agreements, including pricing, terms, and long-term capacity commitments.
- Represent client in the open networking ecosystem and with key technology partners
- Establish rigorous pipeline management, forecasting, and CRM discipline; deliver accurate forecasts and revenue visibility to the executive team and board.
What’s Needed?
- 10+ years of sales experience in the data center infrastructure industry (networking hardware experience a must), including 8+ years in sales leadership roles.
- Proven track record of building and scaling sales organizations at a networking, data center hardware, or semiconductor-adjacent company, preferably in a startup or high-growth environment.
- Hyperscaler knowledge and experience selling into that vertical
- Established relationships with decision-makers at cloud, hyperscale, AI infrastructure, and large enterprise accounts.
- Deep understanding of the data center networking market, including open networking, white-box/ODM switching, SONiC, and the competitive landscape.
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