Lead named-account strategic sales across Financial Services and select cloud/infrastructure clients in the NYC metro area. Build executive relationships develop whitespace pipeline drive Arm-based platform adoption for cloud AI and datacenter workloads coordinate cross-functional teams for validation and commercial close maintain accurate forecasting and competitive intelligence and advance long-term design wins and revenue growth.

Senior Strategic Regional Sales Manager - Financial Services & Cloud Infrastructure
Location: New York City Metro Area
Arm seeks a Senior Strategic Sales Manager to lead sales initiatives and develop enduring relationships with key Financial Services firms and select cloud and infrastructure clients on the U.S. East Coast. The main emphasis is on the New York metropolitan area.
This is a named-account strategic sales role passionate about building executive relationships. It involves crafting new opportunities in underpenetrated accounts and driving adoption of Arm-based technologies across Cloud AI datacenter and infrastructure environments supporting critically important workloads.
The role is positioned where financial services cloud infrastructure and advanced computing converge. You will collaborate with global banks capital markets firms exchanges insurers fintech leaders and selected cloud and infrastructure providers as they modernize platforms for analytics driven by artificial intelligence risk modeling fraud detection trading payments cybersecurity and extensive infrastructure transformation.
As a senior commercial leader you will own executive-level customer relationships. You will influence multi-year technology strategies and translate Arm's architectural leadership into durable high-value partnerships in some of the world's most fast-paced and highly regulated environments.
This role works in close partnership with technical solutions engineers Arm business units product and engineering teams and executive partners to drive opportunities from account development through platform validation commercial alignment and long-term expansion.
Responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver the sales and engagement plan for a specific portfolio of named strategic accounts. These accounts include major banking and financial institutions as well as certain cloud and infrastructure providers on the East Coast. rive long-term revenue growth identify strategic design wins and advance platform adoption.
• Greenfield Business Development - Nurture new relationships and assemble a pipeline in early-stage whitespace or underpenetrated accounts. Construct account maps pinpoint executive and technical collaborators develop access to senior decision-makers and promote multi-threaded engagement across business infrastructure architecture and operations teams.
• Executive Relationship Management - Build trusted senior-level relationships across technology infrastructure security platform engineering procurement and quantitative organizations. Act as a strategic advisor to CIOs CTOs Heads of Infrastructure AI leaders platform leaders and other executive collaborators.
• Cloud AI & Infrastructure Transformation - Identify and develop opportunities tied to cloud migration private and hybrid datacenters AI training and inference performance-sensitive workloads next-generation infrastructure and secure computing platforms. Position Arm as a foundational technology for scalable efficient and resilient compute.
• Value-Based Solution Selling - Articulate Arm's differentiated value proposition in performance-per-watt total cost of ownership scalability security software ecosystem readiness and deployment flexibility. Translate architectural advantages into business outcomes relevant to financial and cloud infrastructure environments.
• Cross-Functional Leadership - Collaborate with Arm Field Applications Engineers product management engineering ecosystem marketing and business unit teams to ensure customer requirements align with Arm roadmaps and solutions. Coordinate internal resources efficiently to advance opportunities through discovery validation design-in and commercial close.
• Forecasting & Business Field - Maintain meticulous pipeline management forecast accuracy opportunity hygiene and executive reporting. Provide clear insight into deal progress risks blockers competitive dynamics and required leadership actions.
• Market & Competitive Intelligence - Stay current on market trends across financial infrastructure cloud platforms AI adoption data sovereignty cybersecurity infrastructure modernization and driven architectures. Use market insight to sharpen customer positioning and inform Arm's broader strategy.

What Success Looks Like
Success in this role will include:

• Developing and achieving comprehensive account plans within assigned strategic accounts.
• Crafting qualified pipeline in priority Financial Services and cloud/infrastructure accounts.
• Developing relationships with senior executives and technical authorities in top accounts.
• Advancing opportunities through coordinated commercial and technical engagement.
• Driving build-ins platform adoption and durable long-term customer relationships.
• Performing well in an interdisciplinary context with solid forecast consistency.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Senior Sales Experience: Over 10 years in enterprise or strategic account sales demonstrating a successful record of selling infrastructure datacenter cloud silicon semiconductors or sophisticated compute solutions to leading Financial Services companies cloud providers or similarly sophisticated enterprise environments.
• Financial Services Account Experience: Proven history working with Tier-1 banks capital markets firms exchanges insurers financial infrastructure providers or other highly regulated enterprises. Extensive understanding of the procurement environment decision-making processes and operational needs of Financial Services organizations.
• Cloud AI and Datacenter Expertise: Extensive understanding of cloud AI and datacenter architectures AI workloads data-intensive applications hybrid infrastructure models and modern compute environments.
• Sophisticated Compute / Semiconductor Exposure: Experience selling or supporting solutions related to CPUs AI accelerators DPUs SoCs platforms or associated compute technologies. Ability to participate knowledgeably in conversations about architecture performance scalability power efficiency and deployment considerations.
• Strategic Selling Capability: Proven skill in handling sophisticated multi-party multi-year sales cycles that include technical operational business and executive decision-makers.
• Executive Presence: Remarkable communication impact negotiation and presentation expertise with the capacity to connect credibly at senior executive levels both externally and internally.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Shown ability to collaborate across departments and lead joint efforts with sales engineering applications product business development and executive teams.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in engineering computer science business or a related field.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Global account experience or coordination with teams
• MBA or sophisticated degree.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
In Return:
Joining Arm means stepping into a career‑defining opportunity. You'll occupy a central role in the company's most critical initiatives. These initiatives build how Arm innovates scales and partners globally.
Additional Information
Please note this role does not meet the eligibility requirements for sponsorship and therefore the successful candidate must have the right to work in the US without relying on sponsorship by Arm.
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Salary Range:
$170000-$230000 per year
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Accommodations at Arm
At Arm we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process please email [email protected] . To note by sending us the requested information you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list examples of support include breaks between interviews having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal regulatory tax or other considerations and where this is the case we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals and don't discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.