Strategic Account Manager- Telco & Networking Sector (LATAM)
Posted 2025-06-16Job title: Strategic Account Manager- Telco & Networking Sector (LATAM) in Miami, FL - Dallas, TX at Wind River
Company: Wind River
Job description: DescriptionPosition at Wind RiverSTRATEGIC ACCOUNT MANAGER - Telco & Networking Sector (LATAM)Preferred Location: Dallas or Miami (USA) | Home OfficeABOUT WIND RIVERWind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company's software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We've achieved recent including with Verizon and building in the world with Vodafone.for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITYThe Wind River sales team is a power-house in our organization, ensuring customers engage in collaborative and strategic, long-term partnerships, allowing them to unlock the full potential of Wind River solutions.We are looking for a Strategic Account Manager with a successful entrepreneurial background and proven track record of achieving targets and building client trust. The successful candidate will be required to engage clients at the most senior levels and must therefore have an executive presence, exceptional communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to forge long lasting customer relationships.This role will have responsibility for developing, fostering and maintaining long-term, strategic business relationships in key target Communication Service Provider (CSP) accounts. The ultimate goal is for Wind River to be the premier provider of Distributed Edge Cloud solutions and services within the LATAM Telco market.Responsibilities
- Develop, build and grow an effective presence within target accounts and become a trusted advisor to all customer touch points
- Establish long-terms sales and account management strategy and implement tactical approaches to realize that strategy
- Inspire the field teams (Engineering, Pre- Sales, Customer Success) to execute passionately against vision and strategy
- Position Wind River in all direct sales engagements, negotiations and RFPs
- Understand client business models and technology challenges
- Create and drive strategic revenue growth plans through solution selling sales plans
- Leverage Wind River's strategic partner ecosystem and collaborate on mutually successful sales strategies
- Collaborate with global sales colleagues to establish and share best practices for continuous improvement
- Comprehensive understanding of the Telco & Networking sector gained through a minimum of 10 years of experience within account management, ideally in the Cloud and Open-Source software industry
- Major account planning experience involving the negotiation of multi-$M deals
- Experience as an individual contributor, consistently exceeding assigned quota
- Ability to work effectively with senior management
- Ability to operate in a matrix environment
- Deployment of solution selling sales approach to technical and executive-level decision makers, using creative business thinking and thought leadership
- Proven experience dealing with complex business and software development processes
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Fluency in Spanish and Portuguese
- Bachelor's Degree (EE/CS preferred), MBA preferred but not required
- Drive, Passion, Curiosity
- High Integrity
- Team Player
- Strong Leadership
- Focused and Committed
- Planning & Organizing
- Communication
- Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
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- 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
- Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
- 401K with company match
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Wellness Benefits through
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Location: Miami, FL - Dallas, TX
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