The role Nebius is seeking a Strategic Sales Leader to build and lead our highest-impact go-to-market motion: Frontier AI Labs, hyperscalers, and the Top 25 global enterprise accounts.
This role owns the most critical revenue outcomes in the Americas - including a small number of
multi-hundred-million to billion-dollar infrastructure opportunities that will define Nebius's trajectory.
This leader will:
- Act as the executive deal captain on the company's largest and most complex pursuits
- Build and lead a team of Strategic AEs
- Orchestrate NVIDIA, ISV, and channel partners as a core part of the selling motion
- Establish Nebius as the default AI infrastructure partner for the most demanding AI workloads
This is not a traditional sales leadership role - it is a
company-building role at the center of our most strategic deals and partnerships.
Success will be measured not only by direct revenue, but by partner-influenced pipeline, multi-year capacity commitments, and lighthouse customer acquisition.
Partner & NVIDIA Motion Own and operationalize a
partner-led growth model across strategic accounts:
- Build and execute joint account plans with NVIDIA (field, enterprise, and executive levels)
- Co-develop and close deals alongside NVIDIA, OEMs, and strategic SIs (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte, WWT)
- Activate ISV and platform partners to embed Nebius into customer architectures
- Lead co-sell motions that combine GPU infrastructure, software ecosystem, and services
- Drive partner-influenced pipeline as a measurable revenue source, not an overlay
Your responsibilities will include: - Define and execute the strategic sales motion for Frontier AI Labs and Top 25 global enterprise accounts.
- Hire, develop, and lead a team of Strategic Account Executives - setting performance standards, coaching on complex deal cycles, and building a culture of ownership and accountability.
- Own revenue targets across the strategic account portfolio, with full accountability for multi-year ARR growth.
- Personally engage (ie hands-on) in executive-level, multi-million-dollar infrastructure negotiations - leading with business value and connecting P&L impact to architectural trade-offs.
- Build and execute multi-threaded account strategies across technical, procurement, and C-suite stakeholders.
- Establish forecasting rigor, pipeline discipline, and enterprise sales standards that scale with the organization.
- Develop long-term land-and-expand strategies within key accounts - positioning Nebius as a strategic infrastructure partner, not a vendor.
- Partner cross-functionally with CSA, Capacity Planning, Product, Marketing, and Partnerships to align resources against the highest-value opportunities.
- Evangelize Nebius's NVIDIA-based GPU platform (H100, H200, B200, GB200 NVL72, and beyond) for training, inference, and production AI workloads.
- Represent Nebius in high-level customer engagements, executive briefings, and industry forums.
- Lead a small number of "must-win" lighthouse deals with full executive visibility
- Align capacity planning and supply strategy with deal execution (critical in your world)
- Drive joint NVIDIA + Nebius executive engagement cadence across top accounts
- Build repeatable strategic pursuit playbooks (POC → scale → multi-year commit)
We expect you to have: - 10+ years of enterprise cloud or infrastructure sales experience, with a proven track record in AI, GPU, or HPC environments.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing Strategic or Enterprise sales teams in high-growth or enterprise technology companies.
- Demonstrated success closing large, multi-million-dollar infrastructure or platform agreements with Fortune 500 organizations, AI labs, or hyperscale technology companies.
- Strong executive presence - you reframe C-level priorities, shape strategic direction, and build trusted relationships across technical and business leadership.
- Deep commercial rigor - data-driven forecasting, cost model translation, opex vs. capex framing, and competitive displacement logic.
- Builder mindset - you've built sales teams, defined segment strategies, and created scalable GTM motions where none existed.
- Experience multi-threading complex strategic accounts across engineering, procurement, and executive stakeholders.
- High energy, ownership mentality, and consistent overachievement against targets.
- Proven experience co-selling with NVIDIA or equivalent ecosystem partners on large infrastructure deals
- Track record of closing $25M-$100M+ ARR or $100M+ TCV strategic agreements
- Experience navigating capacity-constrained environments and supply-driven sales cycles
It will be an added bonus if you have: - Direct experience selling to Frontier AI Labs or AI-native enterprises.
- Background in GPU infrastructure, high-performance compute, or AI model training environments.
- Experience building enterprise GTM strategy from early-stage or high-growth companies.
- Established executive network within top AI and enterprise software organizations.
- Experience partnering with storage, networking, and ecosystem providers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Prior leadership at a hyperscaler or neo-cloud (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, CoreWeave, Lambda).
Key Employee Benefits - Health Insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- 401(k) Plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
- Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Remote Work Reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
- Disability & Life Insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage.
Compensation We offer competitive salaries, ranging from $300,000 - $440,000 OTE (50/50 split) - Accelerators for overachievement and equity participation available.
What we offer - Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth within Nebius.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- A dynamic and collaborative work environment that values initiative and innovation.
