Senior Cloud Sales Specialist - North America
AMD
- Location
- California, United States
- Employment
- Full Time
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
Skills
About this role
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them. AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.
THE ROLE
AMD is seeking a highly experienced and customer-focused Senior Cloud Sales Specialist to accelerate cloud revenue growth across North America by driving customer adoption of AMD-powered cloud and AI solutions across leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). This is a senior, quota-carrying sales overlay role that works alongside AMD’s enterprise sales teams to identify, develop, and close strategic cloud opportunities. You will engage directly with customers to understand their cloud, infrastructure, application, and AI strategies; identify where AMD technology can deliver differentiated value; and help account teams translate those opportunities into pipeline, workload adoption, and revenue. Working across the North America Cloud Sales organization, you will collaborate with AMD Account Executives, Cloud Account teams, Solution Architects, Business Units, and field organizations across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and the broader cloud ecosystem. You will help connect customer needs to the right AMD-powered solutions and orchestrate the technical, partner, and sales resources needed to move complex opportunities from discovery through evaluation and close. The ideal candidate combines strong enterprise selling skills with cloud and AI expertise, technical credibility, and the ability to operate as a trusted advisor to both customers and internal sales teams. THE PERSON: Does this sound like you? We’d love to talk! You are a strategic, technically credible cloud sales professional who thrives at the intersection of customers, technology, and partnerships. You understand how enterprises are modernizing infrastructure, adopting AI, and optimizing workloads across public and hybrid cloud environments—and how to turn those priorities into meaningful sales opportunities. You bring: Proven success in quota-carrying enterprise cloud sales, cloud business development, or technically oriented solution selling Demonstrated ability to develop account strategies, grow pipeline and revenue, and achieve strategic sales objectives Strong experience in Cloud Sales, preferably with major CSP’s, enterprise cloud adoption, and cloud consumption models Experience identifying, developing, and closing complex cloud opportunities within large enterprise customers Knowledge of modern cloud and AI workloads, including AI/ML, data and analytics, HPC, databases, cloud-native applications, and compute-intensive workloads Ability to translate technical capabilities into compelling customer business outcomes across performance, efficiency, scalability, and total cost of ownership Experience collaborating with CSPs, enterprise sales teams, Solution Architects, ISVs, GSIs, and broader partner ecosystems Strong executive communication, presentation, and consultative selling skills Ability to influence and drive alignment across complex, highly matrixed organizations without direct authority Strategic mindset balanced with strong execution discipline, curiosity, and bias for action KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Cloud Sales, Pipeline & Revenue Growth Meet or exceed assigned pipeline, revenue, and sales objectives across AMD’s North America cloud business Partner with AMD Account Executives as a cloud sales