Sales Engineer

Commvault is a worldwide leader in delivering backup and recovery for the progressive enterprise. Commvault enables you to protect, manage, and use your data, while managing it in a consistent, compliant way. Our automated solutions work on-prem and in the cloud, and work with the digital tools and procedures you’re already using. Keep your data accessible and actionable with a single solution that ensures your data is always available — no matter what. **JOB DESCRIPTION**: The Sales Engineer (SE) is a technical sales support position responsible for orchestrating pre-sales engagement to current and prospective clients. The position requires a strong technical leader who understands how his or her decisions impact and influence the customer’s bottom line while at the same time drive revenue for Commvault. The SE must be seen as a trusted advisor at all levels within an account (C-Suite, technical stakeholders, etc.), as well as, be a team leader, mentor, teach, and contribute to overall success of Commvault. The SE drives or supports complex sales opportunities by translating business requirements into solution technical requirements; coordinating technical expertise; sizing, scoping, defining delivery and deployment approach, timeline, and required resources; coordinating demonstrations and proof-of-concept; and supporting internal deal acceptance. **Responsibilities** - 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 as well develop new opportunities within the assigned territory. - Anticipate technology trends and successfully build strong relationships with 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. - Embrace 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 one or all of Commvault products. - Proactive in building relationships with technical decision makers within end-user accounts and driving detailed, executable Technical Account Plans for all focus targets and current customers utilizing Commvault Target Account Selling methodology for both open opportunities and ongoing customer satisfaction. - 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 business 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, demo’s, pilots, "proof-of-concepts", etc. - Actively participate in all Sales and regional meetings, QBRs, adding value 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. - Provide feedback on potential product or process improvements to appropriate internal groups and participate where necessary in formulating innovative solutions. **Requirements**: - Demonstrable experience in the software or storage industry 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 (POC), architecting data management solutions (backup and recovery, data migration, replication, compliance, SRM, etc.). - Ability to 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 building 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. - 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, industry and competitive acumen. Solid experience with business case creation and TCO modelling