Lightmatter
Senior Account Manager
Mountain View, CA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress.
- The company invented the world's first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.
- Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute comprehensive sales strategies that meet target revenue numbers and expands Lightmatter's footprint within key accounts.
- Build and maintain trusted-advisor relationships with influencers and decision-makers from C-suite executives to individual engineers.
- Apply a deep understanding of customer pain points and business objectives to clearly communicate the value of Lightmatter's solutions and work with the Lightmatter product team to deliver them.
- Identify, manage, and close net new business opportunities as well as collaboration across the team to help everyone win.
Requirements
- Be a hunter with 8+ years of experience in the semiconductor or datacenter industry, including at least 5 years in direct sales or strategic account management.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
- Strong working knowledge of datacenter infrastructure (CPU, GPU, networking).
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Ability to travel up to 15% of the time, as needed, for customer meetings, team collaboration, conferences, and company events.
- The role requires the development of a deep understanding of customer needs and the ability to position Lightmatter's solutions to meet them.
- Be skilled in explaining complex solutions to both engineering and executive audiences.
- Proven ability to drive complex sales processes, with a track record of revenue growth and closing greenfield opportunities as well as expanding within accounts.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives spanning three to five stakeholder groups (e.g., engineering, product, operations, sales, finance), helping ensure Lightmatter is delighting the customer at every level.
Nice to have
- HPC Networking experience.
- Experience with product definition and/or product management role.
- Experience selling advanced semiconductors (processors, FPGAs, etc.) into major enterprises.
- Experience or understanding of current optics products landscape and sales process.
- Sales Compensation
Compensation
- We offer competitive compensation.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Savings Matching Program
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Paid Family Leave
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Commuter Benefits
- Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees)
- Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
- Flexible, hybrid workplace model
- Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location.
Company info
- Lead negotiations and close complex deals with large enterprise customers.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Export Control
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