Enterprise Sales Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States of America;
Santa Clara, California, United States of America

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Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.

The Sales Engineer (SE) 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 customer’s bottom line while driving revenue for Commvault.

• 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. SE will also 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 any or all of Commvault products.
• Proactively establish relationships with technical decision makers within end-user accounts and drive 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 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.

• 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, and supporting assigned Enterprise/Commercial Clients and/or territories.
• Provides…