Senior Sales Manager, AI Datacenter, Cloud & HPC

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This role is core to Western Digitals AI Datacenter growth strategy sitting at the intersection of AI infrastructure buildouts cloud platforms High Performance Computing (HPC) and dataintensive enterprise environments.

The Senior Sales Manager AI Datacenter Cloud & HPC is a quotacarrying individual contributor responsible for translating strategic platform wins and AI datacenter pursuits into scalable repeatable revenue across the U.S. channel ecosystem.

This role is designed for a seller who already operates at the level of:

• Architecturedriven solution selling
• Cloud and AI infrastructure GTM
• Multiparty ecosystemled deals

It requires comfort selling alongside Business Development technical leaders SIs OEMs and cloud partners while maintaining rigorous ownership of forecasting pipeline and close execution.

Organizational Alignment

• Reports to: Director of Channel Sales Datacenter & Enterprise
• Works in close partnership with: Director of Business Development Storage Platforms & AI Datacenter

This pairing intentionally mirrors the market:

• Business Development: new customer acquisition AI platform attach ecosystem strategy and topoffunnel creation
• Senior Sales Manager (this role): commercial execution partnerled GTM deal progression and revenue realization

Together these roles pursue the same AI cloud and HPC segments but with a clear separation of strategic creation vs. sales execution.

What You Will Own

Revenue Quota & Execution Leadership

• Own and deliver quotabased revenue for WD Datacenter Hard Drives and Storage Platforms across AI cloud HPC and enterprise workloads.
• Drive complex multistakeholder deals from qualification through negotiation and close.
• Convert designwins reference architectures and platform attachments into predictable revenue streams.
• Build territory and account plans aligned to:
  • AI datacenter buildouts
  • NeoCloud expansion
  • Cloud service providers (CSPs) and GPU cloud ecosystems
  • HPC modernization initiatives

ChannelLed GTM & Ecosystem Selling

• Execute through systems integrators OEMs distributors and cloudadjacent service providers.
• Lead cosell and joint pursuit motions with partners aligned to AI infrastructure and cloud consumption models.
• Work closely with Channel Marketing and BD to:
  • Drive enablement on AIrelevant architectures
  • Support GTM campaigns and partner readiness
  • Influence partner prioritization of WD platforms
• Position WD as a strategic component of AI and cloud infrastructure not a commodity supplier.

Datacenter HDD Platform & CapacityLed Solutions

• Lead sales for WDs Datacenter HDD portfolio including highcapacity SMR and AIdatalifecyclealigned solutions.
• Position HDDs as foundational infrastructure supporting:
  • Tiered storage
  • Object and data lake architectures
  • Checkpointing training data inference data and archival
• Sell Storage Platforms as part of validated architectures not standalone products.
• Support designin POCs and customer evaluations with BD and technical teams.

SoftwareDefined Storage & ArchitectureLed Selling

• Confidently position WD hardware within softwaredefined storage and cloudadjacent ecosystems including:
  • Object storage
  • Distributed file systems
  • Data lake and AI data platforms
• Translate AI ML and HPC workload requirements into clear hardware SDS alignment.
• Support adoption of reference architectures blueprints and validated designs.
• Help partners convert architectural value into repeatable sales motions.

CrossFunctional & Executive Engagement

• Operate comfortably alongside:
  • Business Development leaders
  • Partner executives
  • Customer infrastructure and cloud teams
• Serve as a trusted commercial counterpart in advanced AI datacenter and cloud pursuits.
• Represent WD at industry events partner forums and customer briefings tied to active deals.

Forecasting Pipeline & Operating Discipline

• Maintain highconfidence pipeline forecast accuracy and deal hygiene.
• Track designwin stages platform adoption and revenue milestones.
• Use datadriven insights to prioritize partners opportunities and investment.

Qualifications :

REQUIRED

• 10 years in datacenter cloud AI infrastructure or enterprise technology sales.
• Proven success in quotacarrying roles managing complex consultative sales cycles.
• Experience working closely with:
  • Business Development
  • Strategic partnerships
  • GTM and ecosystem teams
• Strong channel orientation with SIs OEMs distributors and cloudaligned partners.

PREFERRED

• Direct exposure to AI infrastructure HPC or cloud data platforms.
• Experience selling solution stacks (hardware software services) not point products.
• Comfort engaging with customers and partners on:
  • Cloud infrastructure models (IaaS hybrid GPU cloud)
  • AI data lifecycle requirements
  • Storage economics and TCO at scale
• Background working with:
  • Large Sis OEMs ODMs VARs VADs
  • Storage cloud or AI ecosystems
• Ability to articulate GTM strategy not just the deal.

SKILLS

• Architectureled solution selling
• Cloud and storage fluency
• Strong partnership and cosell instincts
• Strategic account planning
• Executivelevel communication
• Forecast rigor and operating discipline
• Ability to operate at the intersection of Sales and Business Development

What Makes This Role Compelling

• You are selling into the fastestgrowing segment in infrastructure.
• You influence both strategy and execution not just bookings.
• You work alongside bestinclass BD talent targeting AI datacenters cloud providers and hyperscaleadjacent customers.
• Strong performers naturally progress into broader GTM strategic sales or BD leadership roles.

Additional Information :

WD is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race color ancestry religion (including religious dress and grooming standards) sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions breastfeeding or related medical conditions) gender (including a persons gender identity gender expression and gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

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Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 07/21/2026 (3 months from posting) although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employees pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills ability knowledge of the job; (3) performance contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California Colorado New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws.  You may also be eligible for shift differential pay depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WDs Short Term Incentive Plan (STI Plan) or the Sales Incentive Plan (SIP) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires subject to WDs Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D legal plan pet insurance critical illness accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time