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Alkira
About Alkira
Alkira was founded in 2018 by Amir and Atif Khan, the pair behind Viptela, and is now owned by Lumen Technologies; what it sells is enterprise networking as a subscription, a cloud backbone that joins public clouds, branches, colocation sites and business partners, with security services switched on instead of shipped as boxes. Most of its hiring is a territory build-out: 16 senior specialized sales reps, each tied to a US metro or state (Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, Nashville, Detroit, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Raleigh and the DC area), plus one for Asia-Pacific in Singapore, who source new enterprise logos from cold calls, marketing leads and partner referrals and carry them through platform trials to a close over long cycles. Sales directors for the Central, Northeast and Southeast regions each run a team of account directors, and forward-deployed account director and account executive seats grow existing regional enterprise accounts. Channel account managers in Boston, Chicago and Seattle work the reseller side, and seven technical seats (pre-sales solutions engineers for the West, the East Coast and Latin America, two forward-deployed lead solution architects, a partner solutions architect in New York and a solutions architect in the UK) run proofs of concept and deployments. 30 of its 32 sales postings are in the US.
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Alkira sales openings
Board read 4 Nov 2026, 21:10 UTCChannel Account Manager - Boston (shows the role here)
Partner sales · Boston, Massachusetts, United States· 1w agoDetails
Partner Solutions Architect - New York (shows the role here)
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Alkira as an employer
Cloud networking company founded in 2018 and now part of Lumen Technologies, whose sales hiring is mostly US territory reps and pre-sales engineers. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).
29 sales openings on its careers board right now29 sales openings at Alkira, as its own board showed them 4 Nov 2026.
Salaried sellers on base plus commission or variable pay; the director posting names variable compensation, the pre-sales SE posting folds commission into its stated target, and benefits are mentioned without detail.
Right now its 29 open sales roles are posted in Boston (2), Chicago (2), Seattle (2), Atlanta (1), Boise (1) and 13 more places, and 2 are remote. Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: US first, remote or metro-based: Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Nashville, Detroit, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, Raleigh and the DC area, with regional seats for the West, Central, Northeast, Southeast and East Coast; abroad, Singapore and the UK.
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- The pay figure is stated by the company: a reference point from research, not a salary read off today's postings, so negotiate from the offer in front of you.
Pay at Alkira
Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30From our research: stated by the company, checked 30 Oct 2026
Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: US postings give a base range by state: $134,946 to $179,928 for a senior specialized seller in Atlanta, Nashville or Salt Lake City and $148,441 to $197,921 in Chicago, Boston, Seattle, New Jersey and the DC area; $139,166 to $255,145 for a regional sales director; $120,617 to $160,812 in California, Texas and Washington for the forward-deployed account seats. The West pre-sales solutions engineer posting quotes base plus commission target instead, $175,000 to $225,000 a year, and the UK and Singapore postings name no figure. The roles listed below state what Alkira posts now.
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Is Alkira a good company to sell for?
Cloud networking company founded in 2018 and now part of Lumen Technologies, whose sales hiring is mostly US territory reps and pre-sales engineers.
Is Alkira still an active employer?
Yes. Cloud networking company founded in 2018 and now part of Lumen Technologies, whose sales hiring is mostly US territory reps and pre-sales engineers. How its pay is structured: Salaried sellers on base plus commission or variable pay; the director posting names variable compensation, the pre-sales SE posting folds commission into its stated target, and benefits are mentioned without detail.
What does a sales job at Alkira pay?
Stated per posting. US postings give a base range by state: $134,946 to $179,928 for a senior specialized seller in Atlanta, Nashville or Salt Lake City and $148,441 to $197,921 in Chicago, Boston, Seattle, New Jersey and the DC area; $139,166 to $255,145 for a regional sales director; $120,617 to $160,812 in California, Texas and Washington for the forward-deployed account seats. The West pre-sales solutions engineer posting quotes base plus commission target instead, $175,000 to $225,000 a year, and the UK and Singapore postings name no figure.
Is selling for Alkira worth it?
Posted pay at Alkira: Stated per posting (stated by the company). Cloud and developer tools reward reps at ease with engineering buyers and usage-driven expansion.
How is Alkira's sales comp put together?
Salaried sellers on base plus commission or variable pay; the director posting names variable compensation, the pre-sales SE posting folds commission into its stated target, and benefits are mentioned without detail.
Where are Alkira's sales roles based?
Right now its 29 open sales roles are posted in Boston (2), Chicago (2), Seattle (2), Atlanta (1), Boise (1) and 13 more places, and 2 are remote. Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: US first, remote or metro-based: Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Nashville, Detroit, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, Raleigh and the DC area, with regional seats for the West, Central, Northeast, Southeast and East Coast; abroad, Singapore and the UK.
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