Strategic Client Engineer

Commvault; Minnesota; On-site; USD 170,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Presidents Club

ESPP

Career pathing

MEDDIC training

Job summary

Commvault is seeking a Strategic Client Engineer for strategic accounts in Minnesota. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, shaping pre-sales strategy and aligning customer requirements with Commvault solutions across security, backup, cloud, and AI.

You will collaborate with Account Executives, post-sales, and product teams to drive measurable value in large, multi-product deals. Travel up to 50% may be required; Minnesota residency is required for consideration.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years in complex enterprise sales as SE/solutions architect.
• 5+ years in major or global accounts.
• Experience running competitive PoCs/PoVs with defined success criteria.
• Strong knowledge of cyber resilience, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern app architectures.
• Self-starter capable of owning technical responsibilities in customer accounts.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Build and expand relationships with technical champions in strategic accounts.
• Partner with Major Account Manager to implement national account plans.
• Experience in complex sales with long sales cycles and multi-product solutions.
• Translate account goals into technical deliverables and bid coordination.
• Coordinate technical workshops, demos, and business reviews.

Skills

Sales engineering

Solutions architecture

Enterprise sales

Cyber resilience

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Travel up to 50%

Job description

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 does not conduct interviews by email or text.
• We will never ask you to submit sensitive documents (including banking information, SSN, etc) before your first day.
• Commvault recruiters may contact prospective candidates through LinkedIn and other professional networking platforms regarding career opportunities. If you are unsure whether a recruiting communication is legitimate, review the profile to ensure they have a badge verifying them as a Commvault employee.

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

As a Strategic Client Engineer supporting strategic accounts, you will act as a trusted technical advisor owning pre-sales technical strategy, shaping customer requirements and influencing outcomes in complex, competitive sales cycles.

The Strategic Client Engineer for Strategic accounts work with our largest customers and prospects while partnering closely with Account Executives, post sales, and product teams to drive measurable business and technical value. This role reports to the Senior Director of Sales Engineering and operates at the intersection of technical depth, business acumen, and competitive selling discipline.

**Candidates must live in Minnesota to be considered for this role**

What you’ll do…

• Build, own, and expand relationships with technical champions in key strategic accounts across security, backup, cloud, and AI teams.
• Partner with the Major Account Manager to implement national account plans and drive execution of strategic initiatives
• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes and multi-product solutions.
• Leverage champion relationships to influence broader buying groups, shape requirements, and uncover cross-sell and expansion opportunities.
• Maintain engagement beyond initial sale ensuring outcomes are realized and leveraging insights to support future sales motions.
• Translate high-level account goals into technical deliverables, including solution design, bid preparation and delivery coordination as the technical owner for several large strategic accounts.
• Advocate for customer needs within Commvault product and engineering teams, providing feedback informed by field experience.
• Coordinate and lead technical workshops, demos and business reviews to scale impact across accounts.
• Actively support competitive sales motions by identifying differentiation and influencing evaluation criteria throughout the sales cycle.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with key VARs, OEMs and GSIs in the accounts.

Who you are…

• 8-10+ years of proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise sales.
• 5+ years of experience working in major or global accounts.
• Strong experience running competitive PoCs/PoVs with clearly defined success and exit criteria.
• Advanced understanding of cyber resilience, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern application architectures.
• Ability to operate as a self-starter taking ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.
• Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers.
• Be a highly collaborative thought leader engaging regularly with senior leadership across Commvault.
• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
• Positive energy, work ethic, and vision.
• Willingness to travel to customers up to 50%.

Meet the Hiring Manager: Adrian Simays – Senior 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

$170,000 - $272,550 USD

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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