Client Services Director jobs in Richmond, CA

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 

Client Director

The Client Director role requires experience consulting Enterprise customers in their data center environment with a focus on Cloud/Hybrid cloud technologies, including: Public Cloud offerings, Compute, Storage, Virtualization, Network, and Automation/Orchestration.  This role will need to have experience selling to the Enterprise customer segment. The Client Director will maintain a high level of knowledge about specific AHEAD solutions and will be tasked with individual and group sales objectives.

• 10 years of Enterprise technology sales experience with focus on the Data Center
• C Level & VP level relationships at key customer contacts (high end midmarket & enterprise)
• Experience using a consultative sales approach vs. product fulfillment
• Financial based selling expertise
• Proven track record of exceeding sales objectives
• A large network within the IT leadership community
• Strong manufacturing relationships, ie. Amazon (AWS), Cisco, EMC, Net App, VMware, Service Now, AppDynamics
• Ability to establish credibility with executive decision makers and IT leadership
• Ability to work independently and leverage resources when needed
• Salesforce.com experience desired
• 20% Travel

• The target OTE for this role is 250k

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

We understand that you have a life outside of work. That’s why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more!