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As part of the AI Platforms Sales team, this person partners with account executives, sales leaders, solution architects, services teams, and strategic technology partners to identify, qualify, develop, and close AI opportunities that create measurable value for customers and scalable growth for Pellera. \nThis is a hands-on, customer-facing role for an entrepreneurial seller who can create demand, shape complex pursuits, and translate evolving AI capabilities into practical business outcomes. The specialist meets customers wherever they are in their AI maturity journey and brings together infrastructure, data, software, governance, security, implementation, professional and managed services into coherent solutions that drive AI adoption in Enterprise accounts. Success requires strong enterprise software and solution-selling discipline, comfort operating in first-of-a-kind sales situations, and the ability to orchestrate cross-functional teams without losing accountability for advancement and close. \n\nEssential Functions:\nWork alongside sales leadership and account executives to sell AI-Platforms capabilities to named lighthouse accounts in an assigned geography, from account planning and early discovery through qualification, solution shaping, proposal, negotiation, and close. \nLeverage Pellera’s capabilities in governance, security, data readiness, deployment optionality, and production operations as differentiators that de-risk AI adoption without slowing innovation. \nAct as a trusted advisor through the customers’ journey to operationalize AI as part of their business model. \nSell professional and managed services that drive AI readiness and support the successful operations and scaling challenges specific to AI including data, governance and security and infrastructure. \nLead consultative solution discovery with customer executives and practitioners to connect AI initiatives to measurable outcomes such as revenue growth, productivity, cost reduction, customer experience, and risk reduction. \nPosition services that support accelerated time to value including staging, integration, and deployment as well as day 2 operational managed services. \nWork with customers to optimize the deployment of current AI workloads as they scale adoption. \nAssemble and coordinate pursuit teams spanning AI architecture, AI engineering, applications, data, cybersecurity, identity, infrastructure, integration, and managed services. \nSupport joint planning and co-selling with strategic partners across Pellera’s AI ecosystem, aligning field resources, technical expertise, and executive sponsorship. \nCreate compelling executive presentations that simplify complex technical and business concepts, demonstrate value, and build a clear case for investment. \nDevelop trusted relationships across the buying group, including CIO, CTO, CDAO, CISO, CFO, line-of-business leaders, AI strategy teams, and governance stakeholders. \nRepresent Pellera in executive briefings, industry events, workshops and partner forums. \nMaintain disciplined pipeline, next-step, and forecast hygiene in Salesforce using a structured sales methodology. \nBring field insight back to the AI Platforms team to improve sales plays, vertical blueprints, partner motions, and repeatable offerings. \nPerformance will be evaluated against a defined Management by Objectives scorecard. 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