Client Director - Strategic AI
Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaAll locationsOttawa, Ontario, CanadaRemote - Canada Remote
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About the role
DDN is seeking a Client Director – Strategic AI Infrastructure to drive revenue growth in North Central US and Canada 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. In this role, the Account Executive will operate as a Strategic AI Client Director, partnering with enterprise customers, research institutions, and cloud organizations to deliver high-performance data infrastructure solutions that support advanced AI workloads. The successful candidate will work closely with internal engineering teams, solutions architects, and channel partners to design and deliver complex AI infrastructure solutions supporting GPU computing, large-scale model training, and data-intensive workloads.
What you'll bring
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise technology sales
- 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.
- 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.
- preferably within storage, compute, networking, or infrastructure platforms.