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Account Director II - Forward Deployed

Alkira · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Alkira

Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.

About the role

You independently plan the account approach, create demand, shape commercial outcomes, and lead cross-functional pursuit teams without formal authority. Your deep understanding of customer business and financial priorities, market context, and relevant solutions makes you a trusted specialist who develops customers’ and colleagues’ understanding . Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Own and execute account strategies for complex or high-profile Regional Enterprise customers, including accounts with significant revenue, broad geographic reach, and diverse needs
  • Analyze each customer’s business model, financial priorities, operating challenges, technology environment, and buying signals to identify whitespace, stakeholders, use cases, and funding paths
  • Build qualified expansion pipeline through executive relationships, proactive discovery, account intelligence, partners, marketing, and focused prospecting
  • Prioritize opportunities and resources based on customer value, solution fit, competitive dynamics, risk, and revenue potential, provide input that improves colleagues’ account approaches
  • Lead consultative discovery with executive, business, technical, operational, and financial stakeholders to define desired outcomes, value at stake, decision criteria, and urgency
  • Translate customer needs into outcome-based solution narratives and quantified business cases addressing value, investment, implementation considerations, risk, and cost of inaction
More about this role

The Role

Own expansion and modernization across a portfolio of complex, high-profile Regional Enterprise accounts by connecting customer priorities to measurable outcomes enabled by network, cloud, security, managed services, and related technology solutions .

You independently plan the account approach, create demand, shape commercial outcomes, and lead cross-functional pursuit teams without formal authority. Your deep understanding of customer business and financial priorities, market context, and relevant solutions makes you a trusted specialist who develops customers’ and colleagues’ understanding .

Main Responsibilities

Own account strategy and create demand

  • Own and execute account strategies for complex or high-profile Regional Enterprise customers, including accounts with significant revenue, broad geographic reach, and diverse needs .
  • Analyze each customer’s business model, financial priorities, operating challenges, technology environment, and buying signals to identify whitespace, stakeholders, use cases, and funding paths .
  • Build qualified expansion pipeline through executive relationships, proactive discovery, account intelligence, partners, marketing, and...

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