Senior Sales Engineer

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About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data applications identities and AI systems to a clean trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

The Senior Sales Engineer (SSE) is a technical sales support position responsible for arranging pre-sales engagement to current and prospective clients. The position requires a strong technical leader who understands how their decisions impact and influence the customers bottom line while driving revenue for Commvault.

The SSE must be seen as a trusted advisor at all levels within an account (C-Suite technical partners etc.) as well as be a team leader mentor guide and chip into overall success of Commvault. The SSE drives or supports complicated sales opportunities by translating business requirements into solution technical requirements; coordinating technical expertise; sizing defining delivery and deployment approach timeline and required resources; coordinating demonstrations and proof-of-concept; and supporting internal deal acceptance.

**Candidate must be located in the Dallas TX area**

What youll do

• Work as part of the account team to formulate and produce territory plans account strategies and sales plans including engaging specialist resources for accounts determined by the Sales and SE Manager. SSE will as well develop new opportunities within the assigned territory.
• Anticipate technology trends and successfully build positive relationships with external partners and internal departments (sales support business units product management marketing development) as appropriate to ensure success during sales campaigns and/or to ensure the customer experience is extremely positive.
• Adopt calling on senior level IT leadership often without account executive present at the same time and engage with the customer to qualify and understand key technical financial operational and business issues that can be addressed with anyone or all of Commvault products.
• Proactive in establishing relationships with technical decision makers within end-user accounts and driving detailed executable Technical Account Plans for all focus targets and current customers using Commvault Target Account Selling methodology for both open opportunities and ongoing customer happiness.
• Distill the pre-sales discovery into a concise message outlining the salient technical business operational and financial inefficiencies/challenges that Commvault addresses with its products.
• Collaborate with the creation and presentation of a case to any and all business sponsors (i.e. C-level executives technical partners etc.) in support of the Commvault solution.
• Propose and professionally demonstrate Commvault products through the use of presentations existing customer solutions white board demos pilots proof-of-concepts etc.
• Actively participate in all Sales and regional meetings QBRs making valuable contributions and technical leadership on all topics (field marketing qualifying etc.).
• Provide technical expertise and enablement support for the channel and alliance partners as needed.
• Continuously develop and maintain technical and market expertise through training certifications conferences etc.
• Keep senior management and relevant internal groups well informed of key issues and changes which may impact encouraged business results through business reviews and documentation.
• Assist with potential product or process improvements to appropriate internal groups and participate where vital in formulating innovative solutions.

Who you are

• 5 years in the software or storage industry; 3 years of proven experience serving in a pre-sales sales engineer role.
• Demonstrates solid experience delivering presenting selling supporting assigned Enterprise /Commercial Clients and/or territories.
• Provides strong competitive knowledge
• Proven strong experience selling conducting Proof of Concept architecting data management solutions (backup and recovery data migration replication compliance SRM etc.).
• Work in a rapid growth environment where priorities roles and responsibilities are continuously updated to meet market and customer demands.
• Experienced in participating in and establishing teams of specialists to support customers and sales cycles to successful outcomes.
• Basic knowledge with common Software licensing practices (cloud perpetual term maintenance)
• Specialized knowledge/skills and demonstrated proficiency with at least one major open systems operating system hypervisor or cloud.
• Enterprise application exposure or knowledge of SAP Oracle Exchange db2 SharePoint etc.
• Solid knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as storage servers networking cloud hyper-convergence etc.
• Requires strong consultative selling skills which pair product expertise with business and industry foresight. Solid experience with case creation and TCO modeling are definite pluses.
• Success penetrating and managing a minimum of three major accounts (Fortune 500-1000).
• Ability to work in an organized procedural manner using tools such as to facilitate process and information organization.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science/engineering or related and proven technical field experience in IT industry preferred.
• Sales methodology experience (MEDDIC TAS SPIN Solution Selling Challenger etc.)
• Able to work remotely and autonomously
• Travel up to 50%

Meet the Hiring Manager: Kris Queen - Manager Sales Engineering

Youll love working here because:

• High income earning opportunities based on self performance
• Opportunity for Presidents Club
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
• Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
• Generous competitive benefits supporting your health financial security and work-life balance

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault Apply now!

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Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications including your relevant experience skills and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.

Pay Range

$93500 - $232300 USD

Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC