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Technology Sales Specialist - Infrastructure

IBM

IBM

Other Engineering, IT, Sales & Business Development
California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA
Posted on Apr 6, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact. Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM is seeking an Infrastructure Brand Sales Specialist to drive growth across our Power, Cloud, and Storage portfolio. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor and subject‑matter expert, responsible for creating demand, shaping opportunities, and closing business that delivers meaningful technology and business outcomes for our clients.

You will work closely with Technology Sales Leaders and Account Technical Leaders to translate IBM’s infrastructure strategy into account‑level execution, accelerating pipeline, advancing deal progression, and achieving strategic brand objectives.

Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Drive Strategy, Pipeline, and Sales Execution: Own the end‑to‑end sales cycle for select Power, Cloud, and Storage offerings and priority use cases. Translate brand and go‑to‑market strategy into actionable territory and account plans. Create demand, shape opportunities, and progress deals from identification through close. Articulate clear value propositions aligned to client business challenges and IBM differentiation.
  • Deliver Strategic Brand & Client Outcomes: Achieve revenue, ACV, and pipeline objectives for the infrastructure brand. Drive customer technology outcomes including modernization, resiliency, performance, and hybrid cloud adoption. Partner with Technology Sales Leaders, Account Technical Leaders and IBM Ecosystem to align technical strategy and execution.
  • Identify and Develop New Opportunities: Proactively identify net‑new and whitespace opportunities within existing and prospective clients. Maintain contemporary technical knowledge across Power, Cloud, and Storage offerings. Stay current on industry trends, competitive landscape, and evolving client needs to shape demand early.
  • Leverage Marketing and Ecosystems: Leverage marketing programs, campaigns, and assets to accelerate pipeline creation and deal velocity. Focus on increasing customer lifetime value (LTV) through expansion, modernization, and cross‑portfolio plays. Collaborate with ecosystem partners to deliver integrated, outcome‑driven solutions.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise or technology sales, preferably within infrastructure, hybrid cloud, or platform solutions.
  • Proven track record of building pipeline, progressing complex opportunities, and closing revenue in a B2B environment
  • Strong understanding of enterprise IT environments, including compute, storage, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
  • Demonstrated ability to engage senior client stakeholders and position technology solutions against business outcomes.
  • Experience working in matrixed sales environments, collaborating across sales, technical, marketing, and partner teams.
  • Strong forecasting, opportunity management, and execution discipline.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to travel as required to support client engagements.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience selling IBM Power, Storage, Cloud, or adjacent enterprise infrastructure platforms.
  • Background in hybrid cloud, modernization, data, resiliency, or mission‑critical workloads.
  • Familiarity with enterprise buying motions, including procurement, legal, and executive sponsorship.
  • Experience leveraging marketing‑led demand generation and ecosystem partners to scale impact.
  • Strong understanding of financial metrics such as ACV, pipeline coverage, and revenue mix.
  • Bachelor’s degree in business, technology or a related field

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.