What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Technology Leader - Washington, DC position at IBM?
Introduction
With a consultative approach, you'll uncover clients' most pressing technology pain points and guide them to solutions mapped to IBM's people, products, and services. Being a natural leader, strategic systems thinker, and business influencer, you'll orchestrate resources within IBM and /or our Partners to bring those solutions to life.
Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. As the virtual leader of a team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that compels our clients to invest in IBM's products and services. ATLs drive the client’s innovation agenda by leveraging IBM Research and engaging in PoCs and first-of-a-kind projects. They will have an entrepreneurial mindset to lead IBM Client Engineering teams to co-create with their client. Collaboration with and leadership of IBM brands is an integral role of the ATL.
Your Role And Responsibilities
The Account Technical Leader (ATL) is a Pre-Sales / Solution Architect Technical Leadership role dedicated to IBM’s most strategic clients. Account Technical Leaders create and maintain proven, trusted technical advisor relationships at all levels within the client’s organization to assist customers in understanding, designing, and deploying innovative solutions that address complex business problems. This ATL role will focus on the Federal Civilian market.
Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
With a consultative approach, you'll uncover clients' most pressing technology pain points and guide them to solutions mapped to IBM's people, products, and services. Being a natural leader, strategic systems thinker, and business influencer, you'll orchestrate resources within IBM and /or our Partners to bring those solutions to life.
Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. As the virtual leader of a team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that compels our clients to invest in IBM's products and services. ATLs drive the client’s innovation agenda by leveraging IBM Research and engaging in PoCs and first-of-a-kind projects. They will have an entrepreneurial mindset to lead IBM Client Engineering teams to co-create with their client. Collaboration with and leadership of IBM brands is an integral role of the ATL.
Your Role And Responsibilities
The Account Technical Leader (ATL) is a Pre-Sales / Solution Architect Technical Leadership role dedicated to IBM’s most strategic clients. Account Technical Leaders create and maintain proven, trusted technical advisor relationships at all levels within the client’s organization to assist customers in understanding, designing, and deploying innovative solutions that address complex business problems. This ATL role will focus on the Federal Civilian market.
Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include
- Cultivating Collaborative Culture: Cultivate a growth mindset to foster a collaborative and resilient results-oriented culture with a passion for winning.
- Product Adoption: Help land and expand adoption of products across IBM's portfolio by demonstrating value in the context of clients' business, industry, and competitor landscape.
- Client Technology Experience: Own and lead a client's experience of IBM technology and define use-cases from their technical strategies.
- Customer Engagement: Engage customers in experiential workshops and collaborate with Client Engineering and Customer Success teams to shape sessions that produce transformation-inspiring prototypes, compelling long-term investment.
- Industry Expertise: Maintain deep expertise in industry trends and their contemporary application to solving enterprise-scale technology problems.
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Technical Expertise: Deep technical and architectural expertise across a variety of technologies, including cloud (with general container skills), business automation, and infrastructure.
- Proven Leadership: A proven leader with a history of coordinating an array of technical sales talent through demand generation, deal progression, post-close deployment, and ongoing, increasing adoption of deployed solutions.
- Communication and Collaboration Skills: Palpable people, communication, and collaboration skills, with a proven record of networking, co-creating, and influencing as the technical expert throughout the successful closure, and post-closure expansion of complex technology sales cycles (c. $100k - $1 mil deals).
- Sales Techniques: Experience of successfully applying Consultative/Challenger sales techniques that 'lead to solutions' vs. 'lead with solutions.
- Agile and Best Practices: Solid experience of using agile and other contemporary best practices (e.g., DevOps and design thinking) to successfully deliver in a way that's both nimble and fast.
- IBM Technology Proficiency: Proficiency in a wide range of IBM's technology solutions, including Cloud, Data & AI, and more (training in IBM's products will be provided).
