Role Description
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 AMDβs enterprise sales teams to identify, develop, and close strategic cloud opportunities.
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Engage directly with customers to understand their cloud, infrastructure, application, and AI strategies.
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Identify where AMD technology can deliver differentiated value.
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Help account teams translate opportunities into pipeline, workload adoption, and revenue.
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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.
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Connect customer needs to the right AMD-powered solutions.
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Orchestrate the technical, partner, and sales resources needed to move complex opportunities from discovery through evaluation and close.
Qualifications
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Proven success in quota-carrying enterprise cloud sales, cloud business development, or technically oriented solution selling.
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Demonstrated ability to develop account strategies, grow pipeline and revenue, and achieve strategic sales objectives.
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Strong experience in Cloud Sales, preferably with major CSPs, enterprise cloud adoption, and cloud consumption models.
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Experience identifying, developing, and closing complex cloud opportunities within large enterprise customers.
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Knowledge of modern cloud and AI workloads, including AI/ML, data and analytics, HPC, databases, cloud-native applications, and compute-intensive workloads.
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Ability to translate technical capabilities into compelling customer business outcomes across performance, efficiency, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
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Experience collaborating with CSPs, enterprise sales teams, Solution Architects, ISVs, GSIs, and broader partner ecosystems.
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Strong executive communication, presentation, and consultative selling skills.
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Ability to influence and drive alignment across complex, highly matrixed organizations without direct authority.
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Strategic mindset balanced with strong execution discipline, curiosity, and bias for action.
Requirements
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Meet or exceed assigned pipeline, revenue, and sales objectives across AMDβs North America cloud business.
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Partner with AMD Account Executives as a cloud sales specialist to identify whitespace, develop opportunities, shape winning strategies, and help close complex customer engagements.
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Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand their cloud and AI strategies, business priorities, workloads, and technical requirements.
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Position AMD-powered solutions across public cloud, AI infrastructure, compute, data center, and emerging workload opportunities.
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Develop and progress opportunities from initial discovery through technical evaluation, workload adoption, and revenue realization.
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Maintain disciplined pipeline management, forecasting, and opportunity tracking.
Benefits
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AMD benefits at a glance.
Academic Credentials
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Bachelorβs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field preferred.
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Equivalent experience will also be considered.
Location
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San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle preferred.
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Open to remote locations within the United States.
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Ability to travel as needed to support customers, partners, and internal business priorities.
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This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.