EMEA Strategic AI Ecosystem & NVIDIA Business Development Lead

Core Responsibilities

• Build and maintain executive, sales, partner, and technical relationships across NVIDIA and the broader AI ecosystem throughout EMEA.
• Identify and influence AI infrastructure opportunities being driven by NVIDIA, OEMs, VARs, cloud providers, and ecosystem partners.
• Develop and maintain a qualified opportunity pipeline and work with DDN regional sales teams to accelerate strategic opportunities.
• Provide market intelligence on competitive activity, emerging technologies, and ecosystem trends.
• Represent DDN at industry events, executive forums, and partner engagements.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, alliances, or enterprise technology sales.
• Proven track record influencing large, complex technology opportunities and building executive relationships across partner ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of AI infrastructure, GPUs, cloud platforms, and data infrastructure markets.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across matrixed organizations without direct account ownership responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with NVIDIA, hyperscalers, AI-native companies, NeoCloud providers, or government AI initiatives.
• Experience developing joint go-to-market strategies and ecosystem partnerships.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

What Success Looks Like