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Senior Sales Engineer

Location

United States

Posted

70 days ago

Salary

$93.5K - $230K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Sales Engineer

Commvault

Role Description As a Senior Sales Engineer (SSE) supporting strategic accounts, you will act as a trusted technical advisor owning pre-sales technical strategy, shaping customer requirements and influencing outcomes in complex, competitive sales cycles. The Senior SE for Strategic accounts work with our largest customers and prospects in the Oil and Gas sectors while partnering closely with Account Executives, post sales, and product teams to drive measurable business and technical value. This role reports to the Senior Director of Sales Engineering and operates at the intersection of technical depth, business acumen, and competitive selling discipline. Candidates must live in the Houston area to be considered for this position. What you’ll do… - Build, own, and expand relationships with technical champions in key strategic accounts across security, backup, cloud, and AI teams. - Partner with the Major Account Manager to implement national account plans and drive execution of strategic initiatives. - Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes and multi-product solutions. - Leverage champion relationships to influence broader buying groups, shape requirements, and uncover cross-sell and expansion opportunities. - Maintain engagement beyond initial sale ensuring outcomes are realized and leveraging insights to support future sales motions. - Translate high-level account goals into technical deliverables, including solution design, bid preparation and delivery coordination as the technical owner for several large strategic accounts. - Advocate for customer needs within Commvault product and engineering teams, providing feedback informed by field experience. - Coordinate and lead technical workshops, demos and business reviews to scale impact across accounts. - Actively support competitive sales motions by identifying differentiation and influencing evaluation criteria throughout the sales cycle. - Develop and maintain partnerships with key VARs, OEMs and GSIs in the accounts. Qualifications - 8-10+ years of proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise sales. - 5+ years of experience working in major or global accounts. - Strong experience running competitive PoCs/PoVs with clearly defined success and exit criteria. - Advanced understanding of cyber resilience, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern application architectures. - Ability to operate as a self-starter taking ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts. - Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers. - Be a highly collaborative thought leader engaging regularly with senior leadership across Commvault. - Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills. - Positive energy, work ethic, and vision. - Willingness to travel to customers up to 50%. Benefits - 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. Company Description 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.

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