Sales Specialist 3

Red Hat; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 212,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave plans

Job summary

Red Hat, Inc. is seeking an Automation Sales Specialist to sell Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to North America Public Sector Naval agencies. You will create new opportunities, present business value, and collaborate with account teams to drive growth.

You will leverage your DoD sales experience, strategic thinking, and cross‑functional leadership to position scalable automation solutions and expand in existing accounts. Remote-friendly for US-based candidates.

Qualifications

• Experience selling to DoD and naval agencies.
• Ability to translate business value into scalable solutions.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Strategic thinker with cross‑functional collaboration.
• Knowledge of open source and Red Hat offerings.

Responsibilities

• Owns development of new strategic sales opportunities.
• Leads customer sessions on business problems, Red Hat solutions, and product capabilities.
• Maintains knowledge of the RH portfolio and plays.
• Advises on forecasts for products, services and training.
• Drives growth beyond initial sale to broader product adoption.

Skills

Prospecting

Challenger mindset

C-Suite presence

Ansible automation

DoD sales

MEDDPICC

Job description

Remote

Remote US VA

Remote US CA

Full time

About the role:

The Red Hat Technical Sales team is looking for an Automation Sales Specialist to join us serving our North America Public Sector Naval agencies . In this role, you will be accountable for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform software subscription sales and services to prospective and current accounts. You'll need to have the ability to understand customer needs and challenges and link them to a set of Red Hat Ansible offerings. Your tasks will include creating sales opportunities in both new and existing customer accounts through well-planned demand generation efforts with the account teams.

The ideal candidate has past experience selling technology products into Naval agencies.

What you will do:

• Owns the development of new strategic sales opportunities.

• Leads critical customer presentations/sessions around business problems, Red Hat solutions, business value, competitive positioning and product capabilities and roadmaps.

• Maintains relevant and detailed knowledge about products in your domain (features, updates, success stories, etc.) and general knowledge of the RH portfolio.

• Maintains knowledge and enables account teams on current "Plays" in your domain (ISVs, use cases, solution blueprints, Red Hat Sales Plays, etc.).

• Advises on and speaks to forecasts for appropriate products, services and training.

• Guides strategy based on deep knowledge of industry or specialty.

• Positions right sized solutions (subs, services, partners) in the context of addressing the customer’s challenges or problems in their environment.

• Drive growth beyond initial sale and deployment to scale and expansion to other relevant products.

• Coordinate with Customer Success on the delivery of the proposed business value/solution.

What you will bring:

• Strong technology foundation (business-focused SA, Tech Leader, Prod Manager, Big 6 Consultant,Specialist, App Dev delivery, start-up AE) with ability to translate business value.

• Proven track record of proactive prospecting

• Highly competitive with "No-Excuses" accountability

• Values of curiosity, authenticity and humility in helping our naval agencies reduce toil and increase efficiency and mission capabilities.

• Strong understanding of the buyer journey and mapping it your sales process

• Has successfully used the MEDDPICC framework to qualify opportunities and test champions

• Proven experience in selling to Department of Defense

• Challenger mentality with demonstrated persuasiveness.

• Passion and curiosity about technology, the market, and its future demonstrated by what you read, follow, subscribe to, listen to, etc.

• Strategic thinker who sees beyond selling an individual product to a single need.

• Entrepreneurial and motivated to run your own business within the role. Prior startup experience is a plus.

• Highly effective orchestrator and collaborator, able to lead a cross-functional team (internal and partner ecosystem) through a complex sales cycle.

• Compelling presenter of business and technical topics, capable of delivering demos for your domain.

• C-Suite presence: charismatic, outgoing and able to own the room to connect individually.

• Relevant experience in one or more of the following: territory, vertical, account selling.

• Automation technology experience with Ansible or comparable technology.

• Experienced in key automation use cases (Infrastructure as Code, Ops as Code, security, network, etc.).

• Conversant with ROI nuances and business-value arguments around high-degree automation and autonomous operations.

• Experience with technology offerings and economics of cloud computing.

• Knowledge of the principles and processes of open source technology.

The salary range for this position is $211,650.00 - $349,250.00 (inclusive of base pay + target incentive compensation). Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

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Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care

Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan

Retirement 401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Paid parental leave plans for all new parents

Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave

Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note:

These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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