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Global Pursuit Strategic Deal Architect

Santa Clara, CA - USA (Office)Full-time$311k–$346k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Architect complex strategic sales deals by building executive narratives, financial cases (TCO/ROI), and commercial offers to win enterprise and federal business.

Role type

Senior IC strategic deal architect (sales)

Builds

Strategic deal pipelines and closed enterprise/federal contracts

Domain

Data security, storage, and data management

Required skills

complex sales cycle management, value engineering, executive narrative building, financial case construction (TCO/ROI), strategic account planning, cross-functional deal governance, solution architecture, infrastructure technology knowledge, digital/data management/storage networking expertise, information security and compliance knowledge, advanced presentation skills

Preferred skills

AI tool leverage, relocation commitment

Technologies

Data security, storage networking, hyper-converged systems, information security, compliance technologies

Responsibilities

Drive deal process from inception to close for complex strategic deals, act as customer advocate for value-based selling, lead discussions defining customer business outcomes, build financial cases connecting outcomes to TCO/ROI/risk, structure innovative commercial offers, align and co-create with customer executives, support strategic account planning, partner with Finance/DMT/Revenue on deal governance, collaborate cross-functionally on RFI/RFP/EOI responses, become subject matter expert on Cohesity solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC