Strategic Account Manager II

Strategic Account Manager

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 include:

• Developing, managing, and closing business within accounts in our Strategic Accounts segment.
• Driving the sales cycle from prospect to close, selling the complete HashiCorp software suite to named key accounts.
• Ensuring adoption and consumption of our solutions.
• Landing new logos, expanding the initial use case, extending into new solutions, and renewing existing contracts.
• Engaging new and existing strategic enterprise accounts to demonstrate how they can be more successful with our technology portfolio.
• Leading resources with dedicated teams, virtual teams, partners, and executive staff around sales opportunities to ensure successful outcomes.
• Leading sophisticated enterprise sales campaigns with multiple prospect engagement points in Development, IT Operations, and Security Operations.
• Aligning the overall HashiCorp solution to the customer's business needs, challenges, and technical requirements.
• Executing solution and value selling to existing customer base and new prospects.
• Articulating and evangelizing the vision and positioning of both the company and products.
• Building a healthy pipeline of revenue and new logos for your target accounts.
• Accurately forecasting business on a weekly cadence.
• Qualifying opportunities based on MEDDPICC.
• Connecting 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 technical and professional expertise includes:

• Experience in Security, Open Source software business models, proficiency in Cloud and Infrastructure software.
• 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 a 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 includes:

• IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
• IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.