Senior Strategic Sales Manager – Semiconductor Solutions (CPU & SoC) - New York City, Tri-State area

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver the sales and engagement plan for a specific portfolio of named strategic accounts. These accounts include major banking and financial institutions as well as certain cloud and infrastructure providers on the East Coast.
• Greenfield Business Development - Nurture new relationships and assemble a pipeline in early-stage, whitespace, or underpenetrated accounts. Construct account maps, pinpoint executive and technical collaborators, develop access to senior decision-makers, and promote multi-threaded engagement across business, infrastructure, architecture, and operations teams.
• Executive Relationship Management - Build trusted senior-level relationships across technology, infrastructure, security, platform engineering, procurement, and quantitative organizations. Act as a strategic advisor to CIOs, CTOs, Heads of Infrastructure, AI leaders, platform leaders, and other executive collaborators.
• Cloud AI & Infrastructure Transformation - Identify and develop opportunities tied to cloud migration, private and hybrid datacenters, AI training and inference, performance-sensitive workloads, next-generation infrastructure, and secure computing platforms. Position Arm as a foundational technology for scalable, efficient, and resilient compute.
• Value-Based Solution Selling - Articulate Arm’s differentiated value proposition in performance-per-watt, total cost of ownership, scalability, security, software ecosystem readiness, and deployment flexibility. Translate architectural advantages into business outcomes relevant to financial and cloud infrastructure environments.
• Cross-Functional Leadership - Collaborate with Arm Field Applications Engineers, product management, engineering, ecosystem, marketing, and business unit teams to ensure customer requirements align with Arm roadmaps and solutions. Coordinate internal resources efficiently to advance opportunities through discovery, validation, design-in, and commercial close.
• Forecasting & Business Field - Maintain meticulous pipeline management, forecast accuracy, opportunity hygiene, and executive reporting. Provide clear insight into deal progress, risks, blockers, competitive dynamics, and required leadership actions.
• Market & Competitive Intelligence - Stay current on market trends across financial infrastructure, cloud platforms, AI adoption, data sovereignty, cybersecurity, infrastructure modernization, and driven architectures. Use market insight to sharpen customer positioning and inform Arm’s broader strategy.

Requirements

• Senior Sales Experience: Over 10 years in enterprise or strategic account sales, demonstrating a successful record of selling infrastructure, datacenter, cloud, silicon, semiconductors, or sophisticated compute solutions to leading Financial Services companies, cloud providers, or similarly sophisticated enterprise environments.
• Financial Services Account Experience: Proven history working with Tier-1 banks, capital markets firms, exchanges, insurers, financial infrastructure providers, or other highly regulated enterprises. Extensive understanding of the procurement environment, decision-making processes, and operational needs of Financial Services organizations.
• Cloud AI and Datacenter Expertise: Extensive understanding of cloud AI and datacenter architectures, AI workloads, data-intensive applications, hybrid infrastructure models, and modern compute environments.
• Sophisticated Compute / Semiconductor Exposure: Experience selling or supporting solutions related to CPUs, AI accelerators, DPUs, SoCs, platforms, or associated compute technologies. Ability to participate knowledgeably in conversations about architecture, performance, scalability, power efficiency, and deployment considerations.
• Strategic Selling Capability: Proven skill in handling sophisticated, multi-party, multi-year sales cycles that include technical, operational, business, and executive decision-makers.
• Executive Presence: Remarkable communication, impact, negotiation, and presentation expertise, with the capacity to connect credibly at senior executive levels both externally and internally.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Shown ability to collaborate across departments and lead joint efforts with sales, engineering, applications, product, business development, and executive teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science, business, or a related field.

Skills and Experience

• Global account experience or coordination with teams
• MBA or sophisticated degree