Full-Time

Account Director Senior-Cloud and Technology Group

Posted on 9/24/2025

CenturyLink

CenturyLink

10,001+ employees

Global telecommunications and IT services provider

Compensation Overview

$136.4k - $181.9k/yr

+ Bonus Structure

Oakland, CA, USA

Remote

Candidates must be based in California.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Requirements
  • 10 years of sales experience
  • Knowledge and understanding of the telecom industry's competitive landscape
  • Demonstrated strong communication, written, and formal presentation skills as well as proficiency in selling to the close
  • Self-motivated, pro-active, results-oriented professional with an ability to work with minimum direction
Responsibilities
  • Identifies, bids on, negotiates, and closes new sales opportunities in order to meet and exceed established sales and revenue quotas
  • Broadens and deepens existing customer relationships in order to gain strategic positioning as well as retain existing revenue and attain additional business
  • Provides input to sales management about trends and changes taking place within the customer’s organization, and makes recommendations about future courses of action necessary of the company towards improving its position with the customer
  • Provides accurate and detailed weekly forecast funnel of identified and proposed opportunities in order to meet or exceed sales quota requirements
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the company's entire product suite. May have more in-depth knowledge on a subset of products and/or services
  • Drives account management responsibilities including solution creation, solution offering, configuration management, order issuance, service delivery, service management, and revenue recognition. Demonstrates a balance of strategic and tactical thought leadership.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Salesforce.com

CenturyLink, now known as Lumen Technologies, provides telecommunications and IT services for businesses and government. It offers voice communications and network services such as VoIP, SIP Trunking, hosted VoIP, SD-WAN, MPLS, and IPVPN, along with cloud and IT solutions like Big Data as a Service, IoT, and cloud management across hybrid, private, and public clouds. It differentiates itself by offering a broad, integrated portfolio that combines traditional communications with modern network and cloud services at scale, backed by global data centers and infrastructure. Its goal is to help customers communicate, connect, and digitally transform through secure, scalable, and manageable network and cloud solutions.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Monroe, Louisiana

Founded

1930

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Sold ILEC business in 20 states to Brightspeed for $7.5B in October 2023, focusing on enterprises.
  • Divested EMEA operations to Colt for $1.8B in November 2023, streamlining core clients.
  • Higher-margin security, cloud, IP, UC services generated $4.5B revenue in 2023.

What critics are saying

  • Tycko & Zavareei lawsuit over Quantum Fiber 'Price for Life' false ads erodes trust now.
  • 940 Mbps fiber speeds lag Verizon Fios 2.3 Gbps and AT&T 5 Gbps, losing SMB share.
  • Legacy copper reliance forces FCC-mandated fiber migrations without rival scale by 2028.

What makes CenturyLink unique

  • Lumen Platform integrates global fiber, edge cloud, and security for 4th Industrial Revolution apps.
  • Quantum Fiber delivers high-speed fiber services to residents and SMBs via CenturyLink brand.
  • 450,000 route miles fiber network supports enterprise high-performance networking worldwide.

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