National Channel Sales Engineer - Canada

Commvault; Remote; CAD 135,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Canada is seeking a National Channel Sales Engineer. This role involves orchestrating pre-sales engagements and providing technical leadership to partners. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in the software industry and proven experience in a partner/channel sales engineer role. This position offers a competitive salary ranging from $135,150 to $182,850 CAD, along with opportunities for continuous professional development and an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Sales training programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years in the software or storage industry.
• 3+ years in a Partner/Channel pre-sales sales engineer role.
• Experience selling and architecting data management solutions.

Responsibilities

• Formulate partner-focused territory plans and enablement strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to the partner ecosystem.
• Collaborate with C-level executives to present business solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

Consultative selling skills

Data management and cyber resilience solutions

Cloud technologies knowledge

Solid competitive knowledge

Education

BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Salesforce.com

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

National Channel Sales Engineer - Canada

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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.

The Sales Engineer (SE), including the National Channel Sales Engineer within the Americas Partner Organization, is a technical sales support role responsible for orchestrating pre‑sales engagements with current and prospective customers and partners. This position requires a strong technical leader who can translate complex technical concepts into actionable business solutions, understand how technical decisions impact a customer’s bottom line, and drive revenue for Commvault. The SE serves as a trusted advisor across all levels of an account—from C‑suite to technical stakeholders—while also leading, mentoring, and enabling internal teams and partners. The role supports complex sales opportunities by translating business requirements into technical solutions; coordinating technical expertise and resources; sizing, scoping, and defining delivery and deployment strategies, timelines, and required resources; leading demonstrations and proof‑of‑concepts; supporting internal deal acceptance; and assisting with partner education and enablement to contribute to Commvault’s overall success.

What you’ll do…

• Work as part of the National Channel Sales Team to formulate and produce partner‑focused territory plans, enablement strategies, and sales plays.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to the partner ecosystem and assist in the development of fully integrated technology solutions to support partner lead pre‑sales activities in the assigned market.
• Anticipate technology trends and successfully build positive relationships with external partners and internal departments (sales, support, business units, product management, marketing, development), as appropriate, to ensure success during sales campaigns and/or to ensure the partner experience is extremely positive.
• Distill the pre‑sales discovery into a concise message, outlining the salient technical, business, operational, and financial inefficiencies/challenges that Commvault addresses with its products.
• Demonstrate technical leadership and subject matter expertise on Commvault’s cyber resilience strategy and approach.
• Collaborate with the creation and presentation of a case to all business sponsors (i.e., C‑level executives, technical partners, etc.) in support of the Commvault solution and our business partners.
• Propose and professionally demonstrate Commvault products using presentations, existing customer solutions, white board, demo’s, pilots, "proof‑of‑concepts", etc.
• Actively participate in QBRs, making valuable contributions and technical leadership on all topics (field marketing, qualifying, etc.).
• Provide technical expertise and enablement support for the channel and alliance partners as needed.
• Adopt calling on senior level IT leadership often without an account executive in conjunction with our partners to qualify and understand key technical, financial, operational, and business issues that can be addressed with the Commvault cyber resilience platform.
• Continuously develop and maintain technical and market expertise through training, certifications, conferences, etc.
• Lead technical sales calls and assist the partner with qualifying sales opportunities in the terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding.
• Keep senior management and relevant internal groups well informed of key issues and changes which may impact encouraged business results through business reviews and Salesforce.com documentation.
• Assist with potential product or process improvements to appropriate internal groups and participate where vital in formulating innovative solutions for the betterment of the partner experience.

Who you are…

• 5+ years in the software or storage industry; 3+ years of proven experience serving in a Partner/Channel pre‑sales sales engineer role.
• Demonstrates solid experience delivering, presenting, selling, supporting assigned Enterprise /Commercial Clients and/or territories.
• Provides strong competitive knowledge.
• Proven strong experience selling, architecting data management and cyber resilience solutions (data protection, data migration, cloud native, cyber resilience, compliance, SRM, etc.) and assisting with partner lead trials and proof of concepts.
• Work in a rapid growth environment where priorities, roles and responsibilities are continuously updated to meet market and customer demands.
• Experienced in participating in and establishing teams of specialists to support customers and sales cycles to successful outcomes.
• Basic knowledge with common Software licensing practices (cloud, perpetual, term, maintenance)
• Specialized knowledge/skills and demonstrated proficiency with at least one major open systems operating system, hypervisor, or cloud.
• Enterprise application exposure or knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, SAP, Oracle, SaaS based applications, etc.
• Solid knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as storage, servers, networking, cloud, hyper‑convergence, etc.
• Requires strong consultative selling skills which pair product expertise with business and industry foresight. Solid experience with case creation and TCO modeling are definite pluses.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science/engineering or related and proven technical field experience in IT industry preferred.
• Sales methodology experience (MEDDIC, TAS, SPIN, Solution Selling, Challenger, etc.)
• Success penetrating and managing major accounts (Fortune 500‑1000).
• Able to work remotely and autonomously.
• Travel up to 50%.

Meet the Hiring Manager: Dan Criel - Director, Sales Engineering

You’ll love working here because:

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

Pay Range

$135,150 - $182,850 CAD

Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

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