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.
