Senior Sales Director

. Own revenue growth, strategic positioning, and long-term customer success across Nokia's data center networking and optical transport portfolio .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • United StatesSenior💰 $137,270 - $254,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

Cloud

Key responsibilities & impact

Own revenue growth, strategic positioning, and long-term customer success across Nokia's data center networking and optical transport portfolio
Develop and execute account strategies that strengthen Nokia's position with strategic hyperscale and large-scale infrastructure customers
Build trusted relationships with engineering, operations, planning, procurement, and executive stakeholders
Lead cross-functional teams through qualification, proof-of-concept, validation, procurement, and deployment activities
Apply expertise in data center networking, IP routing, optical transport, and data center interconnect technologies to influence customer roadmaps and business outcomes

What you’ll need

Authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
Ability to be based in the San Francisco Bay Area
10+ years of experience in networking, cloud, telecommunications, hyperscale, or related technology markets
Experience owning strategic customer relationships with accountability for business growth, executive engagement, and commercial outcomes
Demonstrated success leading complex technology sales cycles from qualification through production deployment
Strong understanding of data center networking, IP routing, optical transport, and large-scale infrastructure architectures
Experience leading cross-functional teams across sales, engineering, product management, services, operations, and commercial organizations
Ability to operate effectively in highly matrixed environments and align diverse stakeholders around common objectives
Proven success building executive-level relationships with both technical and business decision makers

Comp & perks