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Director, Presales Consulting – Public Sector
Location
District of Columbia + 2 moreAll locations: District of Columbia | Maryland | Virginia
Posted
137 days ago
Salary
$236.5K - $573K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Presales Consulting – Public Sector
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Own end-to-end presales for the Federal business: Set the presales strategy, priorities and metrics required to win at the federal level. • Ensure consistent, high-quality technical engagement across all federal segments and geographies. • Directly manage a team of presales managers who lead technical consultants, enterprise architects, and technical client consultants. • Balance hands-on delivery on complex, high‑value pursuits with management and development of your leaders. • Recruit, mentor and develop federal presales talent; drive career pathways and bench-building for critical skill areas. • Personally drive engagements with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and senior decision-makers at federal agencies to influence strategy and solution adoption. • Build and sustain strategic executive relationships that differentiate HPE in federal accounts. • Serve as the federal SME for hybrid cloud, converged infrastructure, edge compute, security, data platforms and software-defined solutions. • Provide architecture leadership, review/approve solution designs, and contribute to technical win strategies for large, complex pursuits. • Ensure federal solutions comply with applicable regulatory, security and procurement requirements (e.g., FedRAMP, IL levels, DoD SRG).
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or equivalent; Master’s preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive presales/solutions leadership, with direct responsibility for federal/government accounts.
- Proven experience leading presales across DoD, civilian, intelligence and SLED markets.
- Hands‑on technical SME in hybrid cloud architectures, cloud migration, private/gov-cloud, edge computing and related HPE technologies and partner ecosystems.
- Demonstrated success as a player-coach: strong individual contributor skills on complex technical deals while managing/managing managers.
- Track record of building and managing high-performing presales teams and coaching managers.
- Experience engaging with senior federal executives (CIO/CTO/CISO) and influencing procurement and strategy at the agency level.
- Strong business acumen: ability to build financial business cases, quantify ROI, and link technical solutions to mission outcomes.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and influence product, engineering and partners without direct authority.
- Active federal security clearance preferred (or ability to obtain/upgrade).
Benefits
- Health & Wellbeing
- Personal & Professional Development
- Unconditional Inclusion
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