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Leads the U.S. channel strategy and execution for Rackspace GPU as a Service (GPUaaS), building a focused ecosystem of high-value channel, solution-provider, integrator, and technology partners - including firms such as World Wide Technology (WWT) and other strategic partners - that can originate, influence, and accelerate qualified GPUaaS opportunities. The role owns partner recruitment, activation, enablement, deal registration, pipeline creation, opportunity progression, and partner-sourced bookings for GPUaaS. Works closely with GPUaaS Sales, Business Development, Alliances, Product, Finance, Legal, Operations, and Delivery to create a predictable, economically disciplined indirect revenue engine.
Role Mission
Build a small, high-performing GPUaaS channel ecosystem that expands market reach, creates net-new qualified demand, and converts partner-led opportunities into profitable bookings while maintaining clear deal ownership, disciplined registration, and measurable partner productivity.
Career Level Summary
- Manages professional employees and/or channel resources and is accountable for team performance and results within the GPUaaS channel motion.
- Owns functional plans, priorities, partner coverage, and resource allocation for the U.S. GPUaaS channel business.
- Uses data, partner economics, pipeline inspection, and business judgment to resolve channel conflicts and accelerate opportunities.
- Provides commercial and GPUaaS go-to-market guidance to internal teams, channel partners, and customers. Operates with senior-management guidance while independently driving execution against agreed bookings, pipeline, and partner activation goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the U.S. GPUaaS channel plan, prioritizing partners with demonstrated access to enterprise AI, HPC, cloud, infrastructure, data-center, and accelerated-compute buyers.
- Recruit, onboard, and activate a focused set of strategic partners, including solution providers such as WWT and other regional/global channel partners, based on defined coverage gaps and revenue potential.
- Create joint business plans with priority partners covering target accounts, use cases, campaigns, executive sponsorship, enablement, pipeline goals, and quarterly booking objectives.
- Own partner-sourced and partner-influenced GPUaaS pipeline creation and progression from registration through close; maintain clear opportunity ownership and avoid duplicate referral economics.
- Administer the GPUaaS deal-registration process, including validation, expiration/revalidation, attribution, referral eligibility, and CRM hygiene in accordance with approved GPUaaS channel rules.
- Build repeatable partner enablement for GPUaaS positioning, target workloads, infrastructure options, commercial constructs, qualification criteria, objection handling, and sales plays.
- Coordinate with GPUaaS Sales and Business Development to convert qualified partner opportunities into proposals, bids, commercial negotiations, and bookings.
- Partner with Product, Capacity/Operations, Finance, Legal, and Delivery to ensure channel commitments align to available capacity, pricing guardrails, margin requirements, contracting terms, and implementation readiness.
- Inspect channel pipeline weekly, identify stalled opportunities and next actions, and maintain accurate CRM stage, value, close date, partner attribution, and next-step data.
- Create executive-level partner reviews and QBRs that measure pipeline creation, conversion, bookings, productivity, enablement, and corrective actions.
- Protect channel economics by ensuring incentives are tied to incremental, qualified business and comply with approved GPUaaS referral/commission structures.
- Provide market intelligence on partner demand, competitive offers, pricing signals, workload trends, and customer requirements to improve GPUaaS GTM strategy.
Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of channel sales models, partner economics, deal registration, referral structures, and co-selling motions.
- Working knowledge of GPUaaS, accelerated computing, AI/ML and HPC workloads, cloud infrastructure, colocation/data-center environments, and enterprise technology buying motions.
- Understanding of GPU ecosystem participants and routes to market, including OEMs, silicon providers, distributors, solution providers, integrators, ISVs, and cloud/AI partners.
- Strong business and financial acumen, including bookings, ACV/TCV, gross margin, pricing, capacity constraints, and partner incentive economics. Knowledge of CRM-based pipeline management, forecasting, attribution, and sales inspection.
Skills
- Channel strategy and partner development
- GPUaaS / accelerated-compute value proposition
- Executive relationship management
- Pipeline creation, qualification, and forecasting
- Deal registration and channel conflict management
- Commercial negotiation and financial acumen
- CRM/Salesforce opportunity hygiene and reporting
- Data analysis and KPI management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Partner enablement and joint business planning
- Presentation and executive communication
- Program and project management
Experience
7-9+ years of relevant technology sales, channel, alliances, or business-development experience required. Demonstrated success building and scaling partner-led revenue motions in cloud, infrastructure, data center, AI, HPC, managed services, or adjacent technology markets strongly preferred. Experience managing complex enterprise opportunities through channel partners and coordinating internal sales, product, finance, legal, operations, and delivery stakeholders. People-management experience preferred; demonstrated ability to lead through influence across partner and matrixed internal teams required.
Education / Certifications
Bachelor's degree preferred in business, technology, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may substitute. Relevant cloud, AI, infrastructure, or channel certifications are a plus but not required.
Travel
Travel as required for strategic partner meetings, customer pursuits, industry events, executive business reviews, and partner enablement; expected approximately 25-40% depending on business needs.
Compensation
- The compensation range for this position ranges from $165,109.00/year in our lowest geographic market up to 290,614.50 USD/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Learn more about benefits at Rackspace.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Job Profile Summary
Leads the U.S. channel strategy and execution for Rackspace GPU as a Service (GPUaaS), building a focused ecosystem of high-value channel, solution-provider, integrator, and technology partners - including firms such as World Wide Technology (WWT) and other strategic partners - that can originate, influence, and accelerate qualified GPUaaS opportunities. The role owns partner recruitment, activation, enablement, deal registration, pipeline creation, opportunity progression, and partner-sourced bookings for GPUaaS. Works closely with GPUaaS Sales, Business Development, Alliances, Product, Finance, Legal, Operations, and Delivery to create a predictable, economically disciplined indirect revenue engine.
Role Mission
Build a small, high-performing GPUaaS channel ecosystem that expands market reach, creates net-new qualified demand, and converts partner-led opportunities into profitable bookings while maintaining clear deal ownership, disciplined registration, and measurable partner productivity.
Career Level Summary
- Manages professional employees and/or channel resources and is accountable for team performance and results within the GPUaaS channel motion.
- Owns functional plans, priorities, partner coverage, and resource allocation for the U.S. GPUaaS channel business.
- Uses data, partner economics, pipeline inspection, and business judgment to resolve channel conflicts and accelerate opportunities.
- Provides commercial and GPUaaS go-to-market guidance to internal teams, channel partners, and customers. Operates with senior-management guidance while independently driving execution against agreed bookings, pipeline, and partner activation goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the U.S. GPUaaS channel plan, prioritizing partners with demonstrated access to enterprise AI, HPC, cloud, infrastructure, data-center, and accelerated-compute buyers.
- Recruit, onboard, and activate a focused set of strategic partners, including solution providers such as WWT and other regional/global channel partners, based on defined coverage gaps and revenue potential.
- Create joint business plans with priority partners covering target accounts, use cases, campaigns, executive sponsorship, enablement, pipeline goals, and quarterly booking objectives.
- Own partner-sourced and partner-influenced GPUaaS pipeline creation and progression from registration through close; maintain clear opportunity ownership and avoid duplicate referral economics.
- Administer the GPUaaS deal-registration process, including validation, expiration/revalidation, attribution, referral eligibility, and CRM hygiene in accordance with approved GPUaaS channel rules.
- Build repeatable partner enablement for GPUaaS positioning, target workloads, infrastructure options, commercial constructs, qualification criteria, objection handling, and sales plays.
- Coordinate with GPUaaS Sales and Business Development to convert qualified partner opportunities into proposals, bids, commercial negotiations, and bookings.
- Partner with Product, Capacity/Operations, Finance, Legal, and Delivery to ensure channel commitments align to available capacity, pricing guardrails, margin requirements, contracting terms, and implementation readiness.
- Inspect channel pipeline weekly, identify stalled opportunities and next actions, and maintain accurate CRM stage, value, close date, partner attribution, and next-step data.
- Create executive-level partner reviews and QBRs that measure pipeline creation, conversion, bookings, productivity, enablement, and corrective actions.
- Protect channel economics by ensuring incentives are tied to incremental, qualified business and comply with approved GPUaaS referral/commission structures.
- Provide market intelligence on partner demand, competitive offers, pricing signals, workload trends, and customer requirements to improve GPUaaS GTM strategy.
Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of channel sales models, partner economics, deal registration, referral structures, and co-selling motions.
- Working knowledge of GPUaaS, accelerated computing, AI/ML and HPC workloads, cloud infrastructure, colocation/data-center environments, and enterprise technology buying motions.
- Understanding of GPU ecosystem participants and routes to market, including OEMs, silicon providers, distributors, solution providers, integrators, ISVs, and cloud/AI partners.
- Strong business and financial acumen, including bookings, ACV/TCV, gross margin, pricing, capacity constraints, and partner incentive economics. Knowledge of CRM-based pipeline management, forecasting, attribution, and sales inspection.
Skills
- Channel strategy and partner development
- GPUaaS / accelerated-compute value proposition
- Executive relationship management
- Pipeline creation, qualification, and forecasting
- Deal registration and channel conflict management
- Commercial negotiation and financial acumen
- CRM/Salesforce opportunity hygiene and reporting
- Data analysis and KPI management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Partner enablement and joint business planning
- Presentation and executive communication
- Program and project management
Experience
7-9+ years of relevant technology sales, channel, alliances, or business-development experience required. Demonstrated success building and scaling partner-led revenue motions in cloud, infrastructure, data center, AI, HPC, managed services, or adjacent technology markets strongly preferred. Experience managing complex enterprise opportunities through channel partners and coordinating internal sales, product, finance, legal, operations, and delivery stakeholders. People-management experience preferred; demonstrated ability to lead through influence across partner and matrixed internal teams required.
Education / Certifications
Bachelor's degree preferred in business, technology, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may substitute. Relevant cloud, AI, infrastructure, or channel certifications are a plus but not required.
Travel
Travel as required for strategic partner meetings, customer pursuits, industry events, executive business reviews, and partner enablement; expected approximately 25-40% depending on business needs.
Compensation
- The compensation range for this position ranges from $165,109.00/year in our lowest geographic market up to 290,614.50 USD/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Learn more about benefits at Rackspace.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Channel Account Manager
Target partner-focused tech companies
Software and cloud infrastructure companies with established reseller or VAR programs sponsor Channel Account Managers regularly. These firms have immigration infrastructure in place and are accustomed to filing H-1B and E-3 petitions for business-facing roles.
Frame your degree as a specialty occupation qualifier
USCIS requires a specific bachelor's degree for H-1B specialty occupation approval. A degree in business, marketing, or management science directly supports a Channel Account Manager petition and strengthens your employer's case at filing.
Highlight partner ecosystem experience explicitly
Experience managing resellers, distributors, or system integrators signals seniority and reduces employer risk. Sponsoring a candidate is a significant investment, so demonstrating measurable channel revenue impact makes the business case for your employer much easier.
Understand the LCA before your offer is made
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor before submitting your H-1B petition. Knowing this step exists helps you ask informed questions during the offer stage and avoid delays caused by employer unfamiliarity with the process.
Pursue Australians-first for the E-3 advantage
Australian citizens can apply for the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and far lower competition than the H-1B. Channel Account Manager roles at U.S. tech firms qualify readily, and consular processing in Sydney or Melbourne typically takes two to four weeks.
Prepare for nonimmigrant intent scrutiny if renewing
Channel roles often lead to long-term career growth at U.S. firms, which can raise questions about immigrant intent at visa renewals. Documenting the nonimmigrant nature of your current role and your ties abroad helps consular officers assess your situation accurately.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Channel Account Manager role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires a specific bachelor's degree in a field like business, marketing, or information systems. The key is that the job description must mandate a degree in a particular discipline, not just any bachelor's degree. Employers who list vague degree requirements risk a Request for Evidence from USCIS, so a well-drafted job description matters significantly for approval.
Which visa types do employers typically sponsor for Channel Account Managers?
H-1B visa is the most common sponsorship path for this role. Australian citizens have the additional option of the E-3 visa, which bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely and can be processed at an Australian consulate in as little as two to four weeks. Some employers also sponsor L-1B transfers for candidates already employed with a multinational firm abroad. Browse current openings on Migrate Mate to see which employers are actively sponsoring.
What degree does a Channel Account Manager need to get sponsored?
Most petitions are supported by a bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, sales management, or information systems. A degree in an unrelated field can still qualify if the candidate has substantial relevant coursework or a postgraduate qualification in a qualifying discipline. Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees for H-1B and E-3 purposes.
How likely is H-1B approval for a Channel Account Manager?
Approval rates for business and sales management roles are reasonable when the petition is carefully drafted, but USCIS has historically scrutinized whether sales-oriented positions meet the specialty occupation threshold. Employers with prior approvals in similar roles and strong documentation of degree requirements in the job description tend to have better outcomes. The H-1B lottery selection rate was approximately 25% in FY2025, so lottery registration itself is the first hurdle.
Can I switch to a new employer as a Channel Account Manager on an H-1B?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to start working for a new employer as soon as your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition, without waiting for approval. The new employer assumes full sponsorship responsibility and must file a fresh Labor Condition Application. You do not re-enter the lottery for a transfer, which is a significant advantage over an initial cap-subject petition.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Channel Account Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.