About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Sales Department

The Sales team is the lifeblood of the overall organization. As a team, the sales organization is the primary group that touches all of our customers throughout the sales process and throughout their entire time with Vantage. Sales interacts with various facets of the customer’s staff, from executives to field-level engineers. Internally, the Sales team acts as the glue between the construction, operations, and finance teams to ensure that the customer’s vision and goals are recognized. Lastly, the Sales team builds industry-level relationships. Our team is responsible for engaging with utility providers, network providers, brokers, industry analysts, and more, ensuring that Vantage is well-positioned to meet our sales goals and well-positioned in the industry.

Position Overview

This role is remote in the US.

The VP Hyperscale Sales, NA will be responsible for serving as the lead account owner for one of Vantage’s largest Hyperscale accounts. As the North American leader of this premier account, the VP of Hyperscale Sales will lead all stages of business acquisition beginning with relationship management and tracking all the way through lease execution. This leader will be responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships across the spectrum at this leading Hyperscale account; ranging from key engineering leaders up to and through the business leader in North America. As a strong sales leader, the VP of Hyperscale Sales, will need to develop and maintain strong internal relationships with VDC partners, including Engineering, New Site Development, Construction, and Operations. The ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communications skills and will have a proven track record of leading hyperscale sales in the data center community or similar fields.

Essential Job Functions

Strategy Development:

• Drive the overall strategy for the target hyperscale account.
• Drive all leasing results by actively engaging across all levels of both the customer and VDC organizations.
• Lead all sales pursuits associated with the target hyperscale account.

Relationship Management:

• Develop and maintain all customer contact plans.
• Build and maintain business relationships with customer organizations, including North American leadership, Site selection, Legal, Finance, and Tax departments.
• Build and maintain technical relationships with customer organizations: Site Selection, Engineering, Construction, Security, Network Engineering
• Gain customer acceptance by gaining and demonstrating a firm understanding of their business/operations.

Sales and Revenue:

• Accurately forecast annual, quarterly, and monthly revenue streams.
• Provide quarterly results assessments of productivity.
• Meet or exceed all defined sales goals and ensure consistent quota attainment.

Internal Collaboration:

• Build and maintain relationships with internal Vantage teams, including Engineering, Construction, Legal, and Finance.
• Directly engage with Solutions Architecture and Engineering to play a lead role in all RFP activities.
• Actively work with Vantage New Site Development to ensure inventory meets the account’s needs.
• Communicates with team members to keep up to date with daily issues and activities.

Management and Mentorship:

• Actively manage and mentor Account Managers assigned to the target Hyperscale Account.
• Lead Salesforce management for all active pursuits.

Lease and Contract Management:

• Act as a point of contact for lease reviews and negotiations.
• Manage all aspects of the sales pursuit, including signal creation, RFP management, lease creation/negotiation, and executive reporting.

Lease and Contract Management:

• Articulate and conduct in-depth product feature benefit discussions related to Vantage data center offerings.
• Participate in initial design reviews for new data center builds and customer-specific builds.

Additional Duties:

• Handle additional duties as assigned by Management.

Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or Engineering from an accredited university or college, required.
• Master’s degree in an Business Administration, Computer Science, or Engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, preferred.

Experience:

• 10-15 years of experience in management role required, 15 to 20 years preferred.
• Data Center experience is desired.
• Experience in leading and directing work with direct reports is required.

Skills:

• Strong ability to drive output of department staff.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively present information to executive management, operations, sales engineering and finance and drive output of department staff
• Travel required is expected to be up to 50% but may increase over time as the business evolves.

Physical Demands and Special Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Additional Details

• Salary Range: $220,000-$250,000 Base + Bonus (this range is based on Colorado market data and may vary in other locations)
• This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
• Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including your qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown.

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.

Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Vantage Data Centers does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Vantage Data Centers.