Consulting Solutions Engineer - Majors (Bay Area) at NetApp, Inc. | San Francisco, United States | Rezi

Consulting Solutions Engineer - Majors (Bay Area) at NetApp, Inc.

Consulting Solutions Engineer - Majors (Bay Area)

NetApp, Inc. · San Francisco, United States

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Consulting Solutions Engineer - Majors (Bay Area)

NetApp, Inc. · San Francisco, United States

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About the Role

Enterprise Majors is a strategic segment within NetApp’s Enterprise organization, focused on accelerating growth within large, complex customers. Solutions Engineers partner 1:1 with Client Executives to drive technical strategy, pipeline creation, and customer success by uncovering new workloads, expanding relationships, and creating whitespace opportunities. Success requires technical credibility, commercial curiosity, and a proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Partner 1:1 with an Enterprise Client Executive to develop and execute strategic account plans focused on deeper penetration, broader platform adoption, and net-new workload acquisition.
  • Lead consultative discovery conversations that uncover technical challenges, business initiatives, and organizational priorities across both technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Translate customer business objectives into solution strategies leveraging the breadth of the NetApp portfolio.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor while helping identify, shape, and advance new sales opportunities throughout the customer lifecycle.
  • Support account planning, opportunity qualification, and pipeline progression using structured sales methodologies such as MEDDICC.
  • Deliver compelling technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-concepts aligned to customer business outcomes.
  • Build strong relationships with enterprise architects, infrastructure leaders, IT executives, and cross-functional business stakeholders.
  • Collaborate closely with NetApp specialists, product teams, professional services, and channel partners to deliver the right technical expertise at the right stage of the sales cycle.
  • Recognize when to leverage internal specialists for deep technical design while maintaining ownership of the overall customer engagement.
  • Stay current on industry trends, competitive technologies, hybrid cloud, AI, data infrastructure, and emerging customer workloads.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Pre-Sales Engineering, Solution Consulting, or similar customer-facing technical sales roles.
  • Experience supporting large enterprise or Fortune 1000 customers through complex technology sales cycles.
  • Demonstrated success partnering with enterprise sales teams to drive strategic opportunities from discovery through close.
  • Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments, including storage, data management, hybrid cloud, virtualization, backup, data protection, or adjacent infrastructure technologies.
  • Strong understanding of modern enterprise data infrastructure and how organizations leverage technology to support business outcomes.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical capabilities into measurable business value.
  • Experience leading consultative discovery and value-based customer conversations across both technical and business stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with enterprise sales methodologies such as MEDDICC, account planning, and structured opportunity qualification.
  • Experience working alongside channel partners, system integrators, or strategic reseller organizations.
  • Ability to build foundational solution architectures while collaborating with technical specialists on highly complex solution design.
  • Demonstrated curiosity and passion for emerging technologies including AI, hybrid cloud, cyber resilience, and modern data management.

Skills

  • Solutions Engineering
  • Sales Engineering
  • Pre-Sales Engineering
  • Solution Consulting
  • Technical Sales
  • Storage
  • Data Management
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Virtualization
  • Backup
  • Data Protection
  • Enterprise Infrastructure
  • MEDDICC
  • Consultative Selling
  • AI
  • Cyber Resilience

Location

  • San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley, Morgan Hill to San Francisco, East Bay, Penninsula)

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 7+ years

Salary/Compensations

  • 223,550 - 289,300 USD (OTE)

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement or Pension Plans
  • Paid Time Off
  • Various Leave options
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Restricted stocks (RSU’s)

About the Company

  • Enterprise Majors is a strategic segment within NetApp’s Enterprise organization, purpose-built to accelerate growth within some of our largest and most complex customers.