Director, Host Networking Segment Sales for Agentic

About the role

We are seeking a dynamic business leader to manage NVIDIA's growth in host networking products for agentic workloads. This role involves increasing demand for NVIDIA DPUs, NICs, and SuperNICs by integrating valuable DOCA libraries with leading customer and ISV workloads.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and day-to-day segment sales operating cadence for DPU, NIC and SuperNIC demand generation.
• Identify, develop, and close workload-led builds that attach NVIDIA NIC and SuperNIC products to leading AI, cloud, and enterprise customers deploying agentic workloads.
• Build deep relationships with end customers, ISVs, platform providers, and ecosystem partners to secure integration, validation, launch, and deployment commitments.
• Lead a matrixed group including product management, sales, developer relations, solution architects, engineering, and marketing to prioritize integrations, enablement, field plays, and roadmap feedback.
• Translate deep technical capabilities into executive narratives, customer value propositions, sales plays, proof points, and actionable go-to-market plans.
• Track and drive quarterly business reporting, forecast accuracy, design-win progress, integration status, revenue influence, supply-demand alignment, customer blockers, and competitive insights.

Requirements

• A technical and commercial university degree (or equivalent experience).
• Over 15 overall years of experience advancing sales, business growth, product launches, or platform adoption for data center networking, cloud infrastructure, semiconductor, infrastructure software, or enterprise software products, including more than 10 years focused on leading high-performing teams.
• Experience crafting demand through software platforms, SDKs, libraries, APIs, ISV partnerships, developer ecosystems, or workload integrations.
• Solid understanding of NICs, SuperNICs, DPUs, data center networking, Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, security and storage acceleration, and AI data center architectures.
• Ability to translate deep technical capabilities into executive narratives, customer value propositions, sales plays, proof points, and actionable go-to-market plans.
• Experience leading segment sales operating rhythm, demand forecasting, supply-demand coordination, business reviews, and collaborative efforts with operations, finance, product, and account teams.
• Diligent and comfortable multitasking in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities, evolving workloads, and changing customer requirements.
• Ability to present complex marketing and technical content to executives at NVIDIA, our partners, ISVs, and customers.

Qualifications

• Hands-on familiarity with NVIDIA DOCA, BlueField DPUs, SuperNICs, NIC software ecosystems, programmable host networking.
• Deep knowledge of AI factory architectures for agentic workloads, GPU cluster networking, host networking requirements, application performance bottlenecks, and operational tradeoffs at scale.
• Experience balancing new design-win creation with run-the-business rigor for high-volume networking, silicon, systems, or infrastructure products, including supply constraints, allocation, customer ramps, and lifecycle transitions.
• Experience building ISV partner motions for cloud-native infrastructure, storage, security, observability, virtualization, databases, data processing, AI training, AI inference, or enterprise platforms.
• Technical knowledge of NVIDIA products and services, plus enterprise, hyperscaler, and ISV qualification, deployment, and lifecycle models.

Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement savings plans, and paid time off. Additionally, NVIDIA provides a competitive salary structure with a mix of base salary and variable compensation, ranging from 296,000 USD - 448,500 USD based on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Pay

The base salary for this role ranges from 296,000 USD - 448,500 USD, with 15% of the total compensation paid in variable compensation. The exact amount will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

Schedule

This is a full-time position with standard working hours.