About the Role
As an Enterprise Solutions Engineer, you will serve as the trusted technical advisor across a diverse enterprise territory, partnering closely with two Enterprise Client Executives to develop account strategy, uncover new opportunities, and drive successful customer engagements. Success requires balancing technical breadth with commercial awareness to help customers modernize their data infrastructure by aligning technology to business priorities.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with two Enterprise Client Executives to develop territory strategy, qualify opportunities, and execute successful customer engagements.
- Lead consultative discovery sessions that uncover business initiatives, technical challenges, and opportunities to modernize customer environments.
- Design and position solutions across the NetApp portfolio while aligning technical recommendations to customer business outcomes.
- Support a broad mix of enterprise customers, balancing strategic existing accounts with net-new opportunities across your territory.
- Build trusted relationships with enterprise architects, infrastructure leaders, technical decision-makers, and executive stakeholders.
- Proactively identify protect-and-expand opportunities while uncovering new workloads and whitespace within existing accounts.
- Deliver compelling demonstrations, workshops, proof-of-concepts, and technical presentations throughout the sales cycle.
- Collaborate closely with channel partners to develop joint account strategies, differentiate solutions, and accelerate customer success.
- Partner with NetApp specialists and technical resources when deeper solution expertise is required, ensuring customers receive the right expertise at every stage of the engagement.
- Manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously while maintaining strong technical, commercial, and pipeline discipline.
- Stay current on emerging technologies including AI, hybrid cloud, cyber resilience, and modern data infrastructure to deliver differentiated customer value.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Systems Engineering, Technical Pre-Sales, or Solution Consulting within an enterprise technology environment.
- Proven success supporting enterprise or Fortune 1000 customers through complex technology sales cycles.
- Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments, with a strong foundation in storage or storage-adjacent infrastructure technologies.
- Broad technical knowledge across enterprise infrastructure, including storage, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, and modern data center architectures.
- Experience designing and positioning technical solutions that align customer requirements with business objectives.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical capabilities into clear business value.
- Experience managing multiple opportunities across various stages of the sales cycle while effectively balancing competing priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with both technical stakeholders and business decision-makers.
- Experience collaborating with channel partners and partner technical teams to develop and deliver customer solutions.
Skills
- AI
- Hybrid Cloud
- Cyber Resilience
- Modern Data Infrastructure
- Storage
- Virtualization
- Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Modern Data Center Architectures
- MEDDICC
- Account Planning
- Opportunity Qualification
- Pipeline Management
Location
- Remote
- San Francisco / San Jose / East Bay metro areas
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- 197,200 - 255,200 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)
