Senior Sales Engineer

Commvault; Maine; On-site; USD 94,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Presidents Club

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Career development & training

MEDDIC & sales training

Job summary

Commvault is seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to lead pre‑sales engagements in the U.S. West region, focusing on strategic accounts and complex technical solutions.

You will translate customer needs into technical requirements, coordinate internal resources, and drive successful demonstrations and proofs‑of‑concept while building trusted advisor relationships. The role requires 5+ years in software/storage with 3+ years pre‑sales, strong consultative selling skills, and the ability to travel up

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software or storage with 3+ years pre-sales engineering.
• Experience delivering and supporting SLED clients or territories.
• Strong competitive knowledge.
• Proven in selling, PoC, and data management solutions (backup/recovery, migration, replication).
• Adaptable to rapid growth and evolving priorities.
• Experience building specialist teams for customers and sales cycles.
• Knowledge of software licensing (cloud, perpetual, term, maintenance).
• Experience with at least one major OS, hypervisor, or cloud.
• Knowledge of SAP, Oracle, Exchange, DB2, SharePoint, etc.
• Strong infra knowledge: storage, servers, networking, cloud, hyper-convergence.
• Consultative selling with product/business foresight; TCO modeling is a plus.
• Managed at least three Fortune 500–1000 accounts.
• Proficient with Salesforce.com for process and information management.

Responsibilities

• Form territory and account plans, develop strategies and sales plans with specialists.
• Develop new opportunities within the assigned territory.
• Engage senior IT leadership and qualify key technical, financial, and business issues.
• Establish relationships with technical decision makers and drive Technical Account Plans.
• Summarize pre-sales discovery into concise messages addressing inefficiencies.
• Present cases to sponsors (C-level, partners) to support Commvault solutions.
• Demonstrate products via presentations, demos, pilots, and PoCs.
• Participate in sales meetings and regional events, contributing technical leadership.
• Provide enablement support for channel and alliance partners.
• Maintain technical and market expertise through training and conferences.
• Keep management informed via business reviews and Salesforce documentation.
• Assist with product/process improvements and innovative solutions.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Industry experience

Executive engagement

Proof of Concept

Territory planning

Salesforce.org usage

Travel up to 50%

Remote work capability

MedTech/IT security awareness

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Tools

Salesforce.com

Demo/POC tooling

Job description

Oregon, United States of America; Washington, United States of America

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We’ve learned that scammers are impersonating Commvault team members—including HR and leadership—via email or text. These bad actors may conduct fake interviews and ask for personal information, such as your social security number.

What to know:

• Commvault doesnotconduct interviews by email or text.
• We will never ask you to submit sensitive documents (including banking information, SSN, etc) before your first day.

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 Senior Sales Engineer (SSE) is a technical sales support position responsible for arranging pre-sales engagement to current and prospective clients. The position requires a strong technical leader who understands how their decisions impact and influence the customer’s bottom line while driving revenue for Commvault.

The SSE must be seen as a trusted advisor at all levels within an account (C‑Suite, technical partners, etc.), as well as be a team leader, mentor, guide, and chip into overall success of Commvault. The SSE drives or supports complicated sales opportunities by translating business requirements into solution technical requirements; coordinating technical expertise; sizing, defining delivery and deployment approach, timeline, and required resources; coordinating demonstrations and proof-of-concept; and supporting internal deal acceptance.

**Candidate must be located in Washington or Oregon to be considered for this position**

What you’ll do…

• Work as part of the account team to formulate and produce territory plans, account strategies, and sales plans including engaging specialist resources for accounts determined by the Sales and SE Manager. SSE will as well develop new opportunities within the assigned territory.
• 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 customer experience is extremely positive.
• Adopt calling on senior level IT leadership often without account executive present at the same time and engage with the customer to qualify and understand key technical, financial, operational, and business issues that can be addressed with anyone or all of Commvault products.
• Proactive in establishing relationships with technical decision makers within end‑user accounts and driving detailed, executable Technical Account Plans for all focus targets and current customers using Commvault Target Account Selling methodology for both open opportunities and ongoing customer happiness.
• 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.
• Collaborate with the creation and presentation of a case to any and all business sponsors (i.e., C‑level executives, technical partners, etc.) in support of the Commvault solution.
• Propose and professionally demonstrate Commvault products through the use of presentations, existing customer solutions, white board, demo’s, pilots, "proof-of-concepts", etc.
• Actively participate in all Sales and regional meetings, 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.
• Continuously develop and maintain technical and market expertise through training, certifications, conferences, etc.
• 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.

Who you are…

• 5+ years in the software or storage industry; 3+ years of proven experience serving in a pre‑sales sales engineer role.
• Demonstrates solid experience delivering, presenting, selling, supporting assigned SLED Clients and/or territories.
• Provides strong competitive knowledge
• Proven strong experience selling, conducting Proof of Concept, architecting data management solutions (backup and recovery, data migration, replication, compliance, SRM, etc.).
• 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 SAP, Oracle, Exchange, db2, SharePoint, 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.
• Success penetrating and managing a minimum of three major accounts (Fortune 500‑1000).
• Ability to work in an organized, procedural manner using tools such as Salesforce.com to facilitate process and information organization.
• 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.)
• Able to work remotely and autonomously
• Travel up to 50%

Meet the Hiring Manager: Derek Glascoe – Senior Manager, 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

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Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.

Pay Range

$93,500 - $230,000 USD

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