VAST Data
District Manager - Financials
Chicago · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of enterprise technology sales experience; 5+ years leading enterprise sales teams.
About the job
Leads and grows VAST Data’s financial services sales business, with a focus on hedge funds, by managing a team, developing regional strategy, and building customer and channel relationships.
What you'll do
- Lead, develop, recruit, and hire enterprise sales representatives; review activities and pipeline.
- Build regional and hedge-fund go-to-market strategies and generate revenue through direct and channel sales.
- Manage complex customer sales cycles, from prospecting and proposals through optional proof of concept and post-sale expansion.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of enterprise technology sales experience, with significant experience selling infrastructure, AI, cloud, or data platforms.
- 5+ years leading enterprise sales teams with a track record of exceeding revenue targets.
- Deep experience selling into hedge funds, quantitative trading firms, or large financial institutions.
- Experience building new markets or vertical practices from the ground up and leading complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.
Nice to have
- Experience partnering with channels, strategic alliances, and ecosystem partners is highly desirable.
Tools
infrastructure, AI, cloud, data platforms, enterprise data architecture, storage, high-performance computing
AI focus
Leads sales of AI and high-performance data infrastructure to financial services organizations.
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