JOB SUMMARY: As the Commercial Regional Account Manager, you will have direct responsibility to identify, target and close sales in the Commercial and Industrial sectors of the High-Performance Computer (HPC) marketplace. The position will report to the Director of Commercial Sales with high visibility and frequent interaction with the executive management, product marketing, and throughout the organization. The person in this role is responsible for managing the sales process from beginning to end to achieve the company’s growth objectives. This individual will be responsible for cultivating leads and a direct participant in customer acquisition process. Must have extensive experience and success in interacting with customers, channel partners, and distributors across Sales, Technical and Management functions. The candidate will play a pivotal role in developing and executing targeted sales strategies. They should also have extensive and recent business knowledge in high-performance edge computing markets plus extensive and proven success in closing and managing large OEM accounts and facilitating internal program execution with the Product Marketing team. A successful candidate will have experience writing and presenting technical information, proposals, quotes and speak professionally and persuasively.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Play a key role in the direction of the rugged HPC business inside of OSS through day-to-day execution of the business' sales strategy.
• Achieve territory sales goals and quotas on a yearly basis. Responsible for cradle to grave management of reginal/account target opportunities to achieve the sales, margin and growth objectives. Generates and develops new targeted business to meet specified sales goals.
• Be actively involved in the design and articulation of proposed technical solutions by writing client proposals and communicating business opportunities and challenges with cross-functional project teams.
• In synergy with Director of Commercial Sales, identify opportunities to grow and shape the organization to best address the target markets. Help identify future needs to accomplish the company goals. Participate with executive-level management regarding target customer business pursuits, strategies and decision making.
• Participate as the primary client interface and account manager focused on developing relationships with the client and acting as a source of trusted technology information. Provide information feedback in this role to the OSS executive-level management for future product and technology development.
• Work closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Operations, and Engineering teams to win strategic programs and facilitate consistent program execution. Develop and encourage target customer and industry information sharing within and across multiple business units and departments.
• Communicate required company metrics, sales and product forecast and provide metrics analysis to drive continuous improvement and more informed decision making.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of recent sales or business development experience serving commercial and industrial clients with technically complex products.
• Client hunting and time management acumen to drive sales growth.
• Significant customer centric focus and a history of strong client relationships.
• Experience selling to customer and potential customer engineers, senior executives, and program managers.
• Demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities and operate successfully in high pace environment.
• Understanding of the financial and business side of the sales process.
• The necessary skills, experience, and knowledge to identify, create strategies to engage, propose and close large customer opportunities.
• Ability to engage and drive programs effectively with company HQ staff members while either on-site or remote.
• US citizenship required.
• BS (or higher) in technical discipline or Business-related degree

Preferred Experience:

Skills & Qualifications:

• Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Ability to work well in fast paced, high dynamic environment with highly energized and knowledgeable teams.
• Ability to build and deliver sales objectives by quarter/year.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives concurrently.
• Ability to work well a cross-functional environment, can drive distributed and sometimes remote teams without direct reporting relationship.
• Strong collaboration skills. Ability to form collaborative relationships with lead engineers, engineering managers, program managers and senior managers at all customer sites. A team builder.
• Equally comfortable and skilled at selling to executives, engineers and purchasing agents.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Occasionally required to stand.
• Occasionally required to walk.
• Occasionally required to sit.
• Continually required to utilize hand and finger dexterity.
• Occasionally required to climb, balance, bend, stoop, kneel or crawl.
• Continually required to talk or hear.
• Continually utilize visual acuity to operate equipment, read technical information, and/or use a keyboard.
• Occasionally required to lift/push/carry items up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.

Compensation and Benefits:

Location: Escondido, CA or Remote

• Total Estimated Compensation $110,000 - $120,000 / year (base salary plus variable compensation)
• Remote Position
• Stock Equity
• Three weeks of PTO
• Competitive Benefits Package including Medical, Dental, and Vision
• 401K Matching
• 11 Paid Holidays

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.