{"id":1202886,"url":"https://alion.io/job/rackspace-technology-gpu-as-a-service-gpuaas-acquisition-new-pursuits-sales-executive","title":"GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) Acquisition / New Pursuits Sales Executive","company":{"id":46166,"name":"Rackspace Technology","domain":"rackspace.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/rackspace","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Home, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":165109,"max":290614,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":290614},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"HPC","optional":false},{"name":"Salesforce","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T22:01:46Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T02:27:34Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Job Profile Summary\nThe GPUaaS Acquisition / New Pursuits Sales Executive is a senior individual contributor responsible for creating and closing net-new GPU as a Service business. The role owns the full pursuit lifecycle - target-account identification, outbound prospecting, opportunity qualification, discovery, solution orchestration, commercial strategy, proposal, negotiation, contracting, and booking - with a primary focus on new logos and material new GPU workloads. The executive acts as the single-threaded sales owner for assigned pursuits and mobilizes Rackspace GPUaaS specialists, solution architecture, Product, Capacity/Operations, Finance, Legal, Delivery, and strategic ecosystem partners to win complex accelerated-compute opportunities.\nRole Mission\nCreate net-new demand and convert qualified enterprise AI, training, inference, HPC, and accelerated-compute opportunities into profitable GPUaaS bookings. Build a focused pursuit engine that prioritizes high-value accounts and workloads, maintains sufficient qualified pipeline coverage, advances opportunities with urgency and discipline, and wins based on customer outcomes, technical fit, capacity availability, commercial competitiveness, and execution credibility.\nCareer Level Summary\nOperates as a senior P5 individual contributor and expert seller for complex GPUaaS pursuits; no people-management responsibility is required.\nOwns the customer relationship and sales outcome for assigned new-logo and new-pursuit opportunities from first engagement through contract execution and handoff.\nLeads cross-functional pursuit teams through influence and establishes clear owners, actions, dates, decision criteria, and close plans.\nUses customer, workload, competitive, capacity, financial, and pipeline data to determine where to invest pursuit resources and when to qualify out.\nContributes field intelligence to GPUaaS GTM strategy, including ideal customer profile, use cases, competitive positioning, pricing signals, buying patterns, and product/capacity requirements.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn an assigned GPUaaS bookings quota and deliver profitable net-new bookings consistent with approved pricing, capacity, contractual, and gross-margin guardrails.\nBuild and maintain a prioritized target-account and workload list focused on organizations with credible accelerated-compute demand, funding, timing, technical fit, and buying authority.\nGenerate new opportunities through direct outbound pursuit, executive networks, marketing-generated demand, strategic technology partners such as AMD and NVIDIA, channel/referral partners, ecosystem relationships, and customer introductions.\nQualify opportunities rigorously across workload/use case, GPU platform requirements, cluster size, geography, capacity timing, term, commercial value, decision process, competition, funding, and customer urgency before committing material pursuit resources.\nLead customer discovery and translate business and technical requirements into a clear pursuit strategy and differentiated GPUaaS value proposition.\nOrchestrate Solution Architecture, Product, Engineering, Capacity/Operations, Delivery, Finance, Legal, Security, and executive sponsors to develop executable customer solutions and proposals.\nDevelop and maintain a written close plan for material pursuits, including customer decision criteria, buying process, technical validation, commercial milestones, competition, risks, executive relationships, next actions, owners, and dates.\nOwn proposal, bid/RFP, pricing, negotiation, and contracting strategy in partnership with Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, and GPUaaS leadership; protect approved economics while maximizing probability of close.\nCreate multithreaded customer relationships across economic buyer, technical buyer, procurement, finance, legal, infrastructure/AI leadership, and executive sponsors.\nUse AMD, NVIDIA, OEM, ISV, channel, and other ecosystem relationships strategically when they improve access, technical credibility, solution differentiation, or probability of winning the pursuit.\nMaintain accurate CRM data and forecast discipline, including source, stage, amount, term, probability, close date, capacity requirement, next step, blockers, and forecast category.\nInspect pipeline weekly for stage movement, aging, qualification quality, capacity alignment, competitive risk, and gap-to-goal; proactively create new pipeline when coverage or conversion is insufficient.\nEnsure clean transition of booked business to implementation/delivery and the designated post-sale owner while remaining engaged through critical launch milestones when necessary to protect customer confidence and expansion potential.\nCapture win/loss insights and feed recurring customer, competitive, pricing, product, capacity, and contracting themes back into the GPUaaS operating model.\nKnowledge\nExpert-level enterprise acquisition selling and complex pursuit management, including prospecting, qualification, discovery, executive selling, negotiation, contracting, and closing.\nStrong working knowledge of GPUaaS, accelerated computing, AI/ML training and inference, HPC, cloud/data-center infrastructure, and the commercial drivers of enterprise AI infrastructure purchases.\nWorking knowledge of GPU platforms and ecosystem participants such as AMD, NVIDIA, OEM/server vendors, ISVs, integrators, channel partners, cloud providers, and GPU/neocloud providers; sufficient depth to position value and orchestrate technical experts without acting as the primary solution architect.\nStrong commercial and financial acumen, including bookings, ACV/TCV, contract term, consumption/commit constructs, pricing, sold gross margin, capacity economics, deal risk, and approval guardrails.\nExpert knowledge of opportunity qualification, pipeline management, CRM discipline, forecasting, account/pursuit planning, and competitive strategy.\nUnderstanding of data-center capacity, deployment timing, power/cooling constraints, networking, storage, software stack, and service-readiness considerations that can materially affect GPUaaS pursuits.\nSkills\nNew-logo acquisition and outbound prospecting\nComplex enterprise / strategic pursuit selling\nConsultative and value-based selling\nGPUaaS / AI infrastructure market fluency\nExecutive selling and multithreading\nOpportunity qualification and qualification-out discipline\nPipeline creation, management, and forecasting\nCommercial strategy, pricing, and negotiation\nRFP/proposal and competitive pursuit leadership\nCross-functional pursuit orchestration\nCRM/Salesforce discipline and analytics\nExecutive presentations and customer workshops\nClose planning, action ownership, and deal velocity\nExperience\n12-14 years of relevant enterprise technology sales experience, consistent with the P5 Professional Master level.\nDemonstrated record of personally originating and closing complex, material new-logo enterprise technology transactions as an individual contributor.\nExperience selling cloud infrastructure, data-center services, AI infrastructure, GPU/accelerated compute, HPC, managed infrastructure, or similarly complex consumption/capacity-based technology strongly preferred.\nDemonstrated ability to build pipeline rather than relying solely on inherited accounts or inbound opportunities.\nExperience leading complex cross-functional pursuits involving technical validation, capacity/operations, finance, legal, procurement, security, and executive stakeholders.\nExperience competing against hyperscalers, GPU/neocloud providers, infrastructure providers, or other enterprise technology alternatives is preferred.\nNo people-management responsibility is required; success is measured through individual bookings, pipeline creation, pursuit execution, and commercial outcomes.\nEducation / Certifications\nBachelor's degree preferred in business, technology, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may substitute. Relevant cloud, AI, infrastructure, or sales certifications are a plus but not required.\nTravel\nDomestic and international travel as required for customer pursuits, executive meetings, workshops, partner engagements, industry events, and negotiations; travel intensity will vary by territory and active pursuit portfolio and may exceed 50% during major pursuits.\n\nOur compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets. The compensation range for this position ranges from $165,109.00/year in our lowest geographic market up to 290,614.50 USD/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Learn more about benefits at Rackspace.\n\nAbout Rackspace Technology\nWe are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies - across applications, data and security - to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.\nMore on Rackspace Technology\nThough we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. 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