About the Role
Responsible for the development of complex integrated solutions for Kyndryl public and private cloud, applications, data & AI, infrastructure, projects, and consulting services. Develops and manages customer relationships with solution decision makers in the Infrastructure and Customer Line of Business organizations. Owns the end-to-end solution to the customer, including risk identification/mitigation, cost, profit, and deliverability for complex engagements. This is a customer-facing role, spending 50-70% of the time in face-to-face discussions with customers, typically working on one to three engagements at a time and developing relationships with customer decision makers by leading technology discussions up to the CTO/CIO level.
Responsibilities
- Prepare, develop, and evaluate organizational responses to requests for proposals to ensure a match to buyer's needs.
- Research and understand sales markets, including information about industries, customers, and competitors.
- Identify customers’ business challenges and leverage technical knowledge to create unique solutions focused on value and customer benefit.
- Lay the groundwork to acquire and support customers for products and services prior to closing the sale.
- Create an overall design for a solution, including project setting, direction, expectations, and implementation.
- Use sound business practices and knowledge of business models to quickly understand and resolve business situations.
- Monitor customers’ interactions with the organization and ensure that products and services address customer requirements and concerns.
- Lead the development of different costing methodologies, developing globally consistent cost models and creating or updating supporting documentation.
- Interlock with service offering management teams and offering owners on service definitions, cost drivers, labor rations and other cost model factors.
- Support contract negotiations up to signature and complete engagement hand-over.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10+ years of demonstrated technology skills coupled with business-commercial acumen, including concept evangelizing ability.
- Strong market connections including up to CxO level.
- Ability to lead and create large complex deals through proactive leadership.
- Deep understanding of technology and business trends, including infrastructure, public and private cloud offerings, applications, automation, and agentic AI and the ability to align them with Kyndryl offerings.
- Ability to work internally with stakeholders and externally with the client ecosystem to create and close large, complex deals, > $10 Mn TCV.
- Exceptional communication abilities to articulate solutions and differentiation.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
Skills
- Requests for proposal
- Sales and product proposals
- Proposal writing
- Proposal development
- Business relationship management
- Market intelligence
- Competitive analysis
- Sales
- Target markets and accounts
- Value propositions
- Product roadmaps
- Solution design
- Design thinking
- Technology solutions
- Sales engineering
- New product development
- Information technology consulting
- Technical sales
- Client needs assessment
- Technical acumen
- Lead generation
- Cold calls
- Demand generation
- Customer acquisition management
- New business development
- Upselling
- Account planning
- Scalability
- Go-to-market strategy
- Functional and software design
- Proof of concept development
- Engineering design process
- Solution architecture
- Technical solution design
- Customer engagement
- User research
- Feedback
- User experience
- Surveys
- Market opportunities
- Costing methodologies
- Cost models
- Service offering management
- Hybrid and cloud architecture design
Location
- California (San Francisco Bay Area)
- California (All Other)
- Colorado
- Massachusetts
- New York City
- Washington
- Washington DC
Work Type
- Full-time
- Sales commission eligible
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
Salary/Compensations
- $161,520 to $290,760 (U.S.)
- $193,920 to $348,840 (California - San Francisco Bay Area)
- $177,720 to $319,800 (California - All Other)
- $161,520 to $290,760 (Colorado)
- $161,520 to $319,800 (Massachusetts)
- $193,920 to $348,840 (New York City)
- $177,720 to $319,800 (Washington)
- $177,720 to $319,800 (Washington DC)
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Disability
- Retirement benefits
- Paid leave
- Paid time off
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Employee learning programs
- Company-wide volunteering and giving platform
About the Company
- At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day.
- We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.
- Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career.
- We have opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms.
- Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.
- With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value.
- Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey.
- Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more.
- Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations.
- At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.
- At Kyndryl, we achieve progress the world depends on, with purpose.
- Beginning with the purpose that matters to you.
- Because here, you will be part of a culture designed with purpose.
- One that is restless, empathetic and devoted.
- Where we are committed to sustainable progress for our customers and supporting the communities where we work and live.
- All of you is what we want.
- And what we need.
- Join us, and together, we can advance the vital systems that power human progress.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
- Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are.
- We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
- Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice.
- This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture.
- That’s the Kyndryl Way.
