Client Director – Strategic AI Infrastructure

About the role

DDN is looking for a Client Director to lead strategic AI infrastructure sales across the Middle East. You will partner with enterprise customers, research institutions and cloud providers to deliver high‑performance data solutions for advanced AI workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Drive revenue growth and meet sales quotas in the Middle East territory.
• Develop and execute account plans targeting organizations building large‑scale AI and HPC environments.
• Build trusted relationships with senior technical and executive decision‑makers.
• Collaborate with solutions architects and engineering teams to design AI‑optimized storage and compute solutions.
• Manage the full sales cycle from pipeline development to contract negotiation and deal closure.
• Work with channel partners, system integrators and OEMs to expand market reach.

Required profile

• 8+ years of enterprise technology sales experience, preferably in storage, compute, networking or infrastructure.
• Proven track record selling AI infrastructure, HPC or cloud platform solutions.
• Experience handling complex sales cycles with technical buyers and executive stakeholders.

Required skills

• AI infrastructure and GPU cluster technologies (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Cerebras, Graphcore, Google TPU).
• Enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, object storage, parallel file systems).
• Kubernetes, OpenStack and large‑scale AI data‑center environments.