Client Director – Strategic AI Infrastructure

Job Description

DDN is seeking a Client Director – Strategic AI Infrastructure to drive revenue growth in the U.S. West Coast region within our Artificial Intelligence business unit. This is a quota-carrying role responsible for developing strategic enterprise opportunities and expanding DDN’s presence within organizations building large-scale AI and high-performance computing environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a Strategic AI Client Director within the assigned West Coast territory, driving adoption of DDN’s AI infrastructure solutions across enterprise and research organizations.
• Drive revenue growth and achieve or exceed assigned sales quota across the West Coast region.
• Develop and execute strategic territory and account plans targeting organizations building large-scale AI and high-performance computing environments.
• Identify and qualify new opportunities across industries including financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, technology, research institutions, and large enterprise organizations.
• Build trusted relationships with senior technical leaders, AI infrastructure teams, and executive decision-makers within target accounts.
• Partner with solutions architects and engineering teams to design and present AI infrastructure and high-performance data storage solutions.
• Deliver compelling presentations, product demonstrations, and proposals showcasing the value of DDN’s AI-optimized storage platforms.
• Manage the full enterprise sales cycle including pipeline development, forecasting, contract negotiation, and deal closure.
• Develop strong relationships with channel partners, system integrators, OEM partners, and distributors to expand market reach.
• Stay current on market trends related to AI infrastructure, GPU computing, large-scale model training, and high-performance data environments.
• Represent DDN at industry events, conferences, and customer engagements to generate new opportunities and strengthen market presence.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise technology sales, preferably within storage, compute, networking, or infrastructure platforms.
• Demonstrated experience selling AI infrastructure, HPC solutions, cloud platforms, or enterprise data center technologies.
• Experience managing complex enterprise sales cycles involving technical buyers and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience selling AI infrastructure, GPU clusters, or high-performance computing platforms.
• Familiarity with the AI ecosystem including technologies from NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Cerebras, Graphcore, or Google TPU.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, object storage, and parallel file systems.
• Experience working with channel partners, system integrators, and distributor ecosystems.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, and large-scale AI data center environments.