Global Account Director NVIDIA

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F5 is seeking a highly driven entrepreneurial Global Account Director NVIDIA to own and execute F5s global commercial relationship with NVIDIA. This high-visibility individual contributor (IC) role is directly responsible for driving revenue and pipeline growth through F5s sell-to and sell-with strategies across the NVIDIA ecosystem.

In this role you will focus strictly on commercial execution: driving F5 adoption within NVIDIAs internal infrastructure (sell-to) and co-selling joint F5-NVIDIA AI solutions to mutual customers (sell-with). Rather than managing high-level corporate alliance programs this role is a hands-on commercially focused sales position. You will act as the primary account owner identifying growth opportunities aligning technical resources and converting joint technology priorities into measurable pipeline qualified deals and closed revenue.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of enterprise software sales direct experience selling to or co-selling with NVIDIA and deep familiarity with AI infrastructure markets. You must excel at navigating complex technical environments driving large-scale enterprise transactions and influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• Serve as the dedicated global account owner and commercial leader for F5s business relationship with NVIDIA.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global account plan focused on F5 product adoption inside NVIDIA (sell-to) and co-selling plays in the field (sell-with).

• Act as F5s primary point of contact for all commercial engagements account reviews and deal negotiations with NVIDIA.

• Align closely with the F5 Global Alliances team to ensure commercial sales activities align with broader corporate partnership frameworks keeping this role focused strictly on transactional execution and pipeline generation.

• Sell-To: Identify qualify and close opportunities where F5 application delivery security and traffic management solutions can support NVIDIAs internal AI platforms cloud operations and corporate infrastructure.

• Sell-With: Build and scale tactical co-selling motions targeting mutual customers across AI clouds GPU-specialized NeoClouds hyperscalers service providers and large enterprises.

• Formulate and execute joint sales plays account-mapping sessions and targeted outbound campaigns to generate net-new F5 pipeline with NVIDIA field sales.

• Support F5s regional field sales channel partners and sales engineering teams to close active NVIDIA-aligned deals globally.
  

• Partner with F5 Product Management and Engineering to represent NVIDIAs technology requirements and feed market insights back into the product roadmap.

• Collaborate with Product Marketing to localized co-selling collateral customer-facing value propositions joint reference architectures and sales plays.

• Facilitate collaboration between F5 systems engineers and NVIDIA technical teams to support product validation proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and joint technical integrations.

• Operate hands-on across the entire sales cyclefrom initial account planning and discovery to complex negotiations contract closure and post-sales coordination.

• Navigate ambiguity and move rapidly to capitalize on white space opportunities within the fast-evolving AI accelerated computing and networking sectors.

• Balance long-term strategic account development with a relentless focus on meeting quarterly pipeline and revenue targets.
  

• 10 years of experience in enterprise software sales strategic account management or high-touch co-sell execution.

• Proven track record as an Individual Contributor (IC) consistently meeting or exceeding multi-million-dollar sales quotas in complex technology environments.

• Established commercial experience with NVIDIA (either directly selling to NVIDIA co-selling with NVIDIA or working closely within the NVIDIA Partner Network/GPU ecosystem).

• Deep understanding of AI infrastructure accelerated computing GPU-based workloads cloud networking security application delivery and modern data center technologies.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate map and sell into massive matrixed organizations building trust with both procurement teams and senior technical decision-makers.

• Strong collaborative skills with a proven ability to influence and mobilize cross-functional teams (Product Engineering Marketing Regional Sales) without direct organizational authority.

• Outstanding negotiation communication presentation and contract-structuring skills.

• Bachelors degree in Business Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

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