Senior Sales Manager, Cloud Service Providers

SambaNova Systems

$157K — $192K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of quota-carrying infrastructure sales experience in cloud, data centers, semiconductors, or AI platforms.
  • Proven ability to self-source pipeline and grow new-business opportunities.
  • Experience managing long-cycle, capital-scale deals (6-18 months) across various stakeholders.
  • Fluent in AI capacity economics and the challenges faced by cloud service providers.
  • Deep understanding of the neocloud and CSP landscape and procurement processes.
  • Strong executive presence to sell effectively to CTOs and founders.

Responsibilities

  • Own the CSP sales number for the Americas and determine resource allocation.
  • Aggressively expand existing accounts and directly prospect new ones at the executive level.
  • Run the sales pursuit process from initial qualification to closing the deal.
  • Focus sales efforts on how solutions impact the customer's P&L rather than just product specifications.
  • Structure complex deals based on customer purchasing behaviors and requirements.
  • Lead the pursuit team, collaborating with Technical Architects and executives effectively.
  • Refine and sharpen the sales playbook targeting cloud service providers.
  • Ensure accurate pipeline forecasting and provide market intelligence to leadership.

Benefits

  • 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance; 77% for dependents.
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions.
  • Comprehensive dental and vision insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options available for healthcare and dependent care.
  • Wide range of well-being benefits, including Headspace subscription and Gympass+ membership.
  • Access to counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program.
Full Job Description
Cloud service providers are our most strategic segment, and we are hiring an Account Director to lead it in the Americas. Reporting directly to the VP of Americas, you will own the number and the account strategy for this market - expanding an active book of business while opening the next generation of accounts. This is a seat for a seller who knocks down doors, builds pipeline, and runs complex infrastructure pursuits from first outreach to a founder or CTO through negotiated multi-rack, multi-year capacity commitments. Deal cycles run in quarters, contract values run large, and the wins go to whoever best understands the customer's business.
What you'll be doing
  • Own a CSP number for the Americas. Carry the quota, drive account tiering across neoclouds, GPU clouds, and service providers, and decide where we invest pursuit resources.
  • Expand the territory aggressively. Grow existing accounts and prospect directly into founders, CTOs, and heads of infrastructure at capacity providers. Meetings in this segment are created, not inherited.
  • Run pursuits end to end. Qualify with discipline, map the economic buyer and technical champion, build the win plan, and drive deals through technical validation to commercial close.
  • Sell the customer's P&L, not our spec sheet. Neoclouds buy margin, not racks. Position SambaNova capacity in terms of utilization, cost-per-token, and inference-as-revenue - how our systems expand the economics of their business.
  • Structure deals that fit how capacity providers buy. Committed-capacity constructs, phased deployments, expansion paths - shaped with Finance and defended in front of the customer's CFO as credibly as their CTO.
  • Lead the pursuit team. Partner with a dedicated Senior Solutions Architect on technical strategy and validation, and deploy SambaNova executives into deals deliberately, not reactively.
  • Sharpen the playbook. Refine the CSP go-to-market - positioning, deal constructs, competitive posture - as the senior seller in the segment.
  • Forecast like an operator. Own pipeline integrity and forecast accuracy, and deliver structured market and competitive intelligence back to the VP and product leadership.
What we need to see
  • 8+ years of quota-carrying infrastructure sales - cloud, data center systems, semiconductors, or AI platforms - with a verifiable record of exceeding number on large, complex deals.
  • Proven new-business DNA: self-sourced pipeline, marquee logos you personally opened, and territories you grew materially.
  • Command of long-cycle, capital-scale deals (6-18 months), navigating technical leaders, procurement, finance, and executive sponsors in parallel.
  • Fluency in the economics of AI capacity: GPU cluster costs, utilization math, inference workloads, and the pressures CSPs face turning compute into margin.
  • Established understanding of the neocloud/CSP landscape - who is building, who is buying, and how their procurement actually moves.
  • Executive presence: you sell to founders and CTOs as a peer and represent SambaNova with leadership in the room.
Ways to stand out from the crowd
  • Existing relationships with neocloud, GPU cloud, or CSP leadership across the Americas.
  • Experience selling accelerated compute, rack-scale systems, or committed-capacity structures.
  • Experience selling within or against the NVIDIA ecosystem and its partner motions.
  • Track record of taking over a strategic territory and materially accelerating it.


Base Salary Range:

Base Pay Range

$157,500-$192,500 USD

Submission GuidelinesPlease note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.

Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.

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