VP, Global Pre-Sales

Rimini Street, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) program

Generous Paid time off

Job summary

Rimini Street, Inc. is seeking a VP, Global Pre-Sales to lead the worldwide pre-sales organization from a remote US base.

You will shape strategy, coach a global team of Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Security Solution Architects, and partner with CRO and regional leaders to accelerate qualified opportunities and win rates. This role requires a highly commercial leader with deep enterprise software experience, a track record in complex deals, and the ability to translate

Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise technology or services experience with leadership in global pre-sales or related function.
• Proven track record leading a pre-sales organization that contributed to quota attainment and revenue growth.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise deals from qualification through close, including high-value transactions.
• Executive-level communication and credibility with CIO/CTO/procurement stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global pre-sales organization and operating model.
• Partner with CRO, regional sales leaders, and account executives to advance strategic opportunities and accelerate wins.
• Develop and maintain a disciplined engagement, capacity, and performance model for the team.
• Represent Rimini Street in executive customer engagements and industry events while shaping service-offering strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Global pre-sales

Sales engineering

Executive communication

Strategic deal shaping

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Oracle/SAP experience

Salesforce

Job description

## VP, Global Pre-SalesApply: Remote United States: Full time: Posted Yesterday: R-102449**About Rimini Street, Inc.**Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000 Company, is a proven, trusted global provider of end-to-end, mission-critical enterprise software support, managed services and innovative Agentic AI ERP solutions, and is the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software.Our comprehensive portfolio of unified solutions help run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application, database and technology software, enabling our clients to achieve better business outcomes, significantly reduce costs and reallocate resources towards strategic projects.The Company has signed thousands of contracts with Fortune Global 100, Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and government organizations who selected Rimini Street as their trusted, proven mission-critical enterprise software solutions provider and achieved better operational outcomes, realized billions of US dollars in savings and funded AI and other innovation investments. **Position Summary** Rimini Street is seeking a highly commercial, field-oriented **VP, Global Pre-Sales** to lead the worldwide pre-sales organization and serve as a key member of the CRO leadership team. This role is accountable for turning technical expertise into sales impact by improving win rates, accelerating deal progression, strengthening value-based selling, and ensuring the right pre-sales support is applied to the highest-priority opportunities. The successful candidate will be a sales leader first, with the technical credibility to engage senior customer stakeholders and lead a global team of Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Security Solution Architects. This leader will work directly with regional sales leadership and account executives on strategic pursuits, shape winning deal strategies, improve qualification and technical validation, and create a consistent global pre-sales operating model. Reporting directly to the Chief Revenue Officer, this U.S.-based role may be performed remotely. Proximity to a Rimini Street regional hub or major city is preferred, as extensive regional travel is required. **Key Responsibilities** **Sales Leadership & Deal Execution** * Partner closely with the CRO, regional sales leaders, and account executives to advance strategic opportunities, improve conversion, and accelerate time to close.* Actively participate in high-value and complex pursuits, including deal qualification, account strategy, executive customer meetings, solution positioning, competitive differentiation, and objection handling.* Participate in pipeline and forecast reviews, identify technical or solution-related deal risk early, and define actions required to maintain momentum.* Ensure pre-sales leaders and architects connect technical capabilities to customer priorities, measurable business value, and compelling reasons to act. **Global Pre-Sales Strategy & Operating Mode**l * Own the global pre-sales strategy and operating model, aligned to company growth priorities and regional sales plans.* Build a disciplined engagement and coverage model that directs pre-sales capacity toward opportunities with the greatest revenue potential and likelihood of success.* Establish clear performance expectations and business metrics, including pipeline supported, stage progression, win rate, sales-cycle impact, productivity, and forecast contribution.* Maintain accurate and timely pre-sales activity, opportunity support, and risk information in Salesforce. **Team Leadership & Capability Developmen**t * Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global organization of pre-sales leaders and individual contributors across Rimini Street service lines.* Create consistency in discovery, solution selling, demonstrations, technical validation, business-value articulation, and executive presentations across regions.* Raise the commercial capability of the organization while maintaining the technical credibility required to support complex enterprise sales.* Partner with Sales Enablement to develop practical sales and technical enablement based on field needs, deal reviews, and lessons from wins and losses. **Customer & Market Engagemen**t * Represent Rimini Street in executive customer engagements and at selected industry, analyst, and customer events.* Build credibility with senior customer stakeholders and help position Rimini Street services against business priorities and competitive alternatives.* Provide structured field and customer feedback to influence service-offering strategy, sales messaging, and future capability development. **Cross-Functional Partnership** * Partner with Marketing, Product and Service leadership, Delivery, Legal, Finance, and Customer Success to strengthen positioning and remove barriers to sale.* Improve the end-to-end customer buying experience by ensuring alignment across solution design, commercial terms, delivery readiness, and customer outcomes.* Work with regional and functional leaders to resolve execution gaps and ensure clear ownership of actions required to progress strategic opportunities. **Required Experience and Capabilities** * 15+ years of enterprise technology or services experience, including significant leadership experience in global or multi-region pre-sales, solution consulting, sales engineering, or a comparable technical sales function.* Demonstrated success leading a pre-sales organization that directly contributed to quota attainment and profitable revenue growth.* Strong track record supporting complex enterprise deals from qualification through close, including mid-six-figure and seven-figure transactions.* A highly commercial mindset, with the ability to balance technical depth, customer value, deal strategy, and sales urgency.* Experience creating and managing global coverage, capacity, prioritization, performance, and talent models for a distributed pre-sales organization.* Executive presence and credibility with CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, procurement leaders, and other senior customer stakeholders.* Experience selling enterprise software, technology services, managed services, support services, security services, or other complex recurring-revenue offerings.* Working knowledge of Oracle and/or SAP enterprise environments is strongly preferred.* Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and globally distributed organization. **Leadership Profile** * Field-oriented and willing to engage directly in important deals rather than leading only through process and reporting.* Sales-focused, accountable, decisive, and comfortable operating against clear revenue outcomes.* Strong coach who raises both the commercial capability and technical effectiveness of the team.* Collaborative across functions and regions, while maintaining clear standards and ownership.* Able to simplify complex technical concepts into differentiated value propositions for business and executive audiences. **Measures of Success** * Pre-sales contribution to global sales attainment and strategic opportunity conversion.* Improvement in win rates, deal progression, sales-cycle velocity, and forecast confidence for supported opportunities.* Effective prioritization and utilization of global pre-sales capacity.* Consistent sales and technical execution across regions and service lines.* Strength, engagement, and development of the global pre-sales leadership team and organization.**Location** Remote, United States **Travel** Up to 50% travel, based on business needs, including travel to Rimini Street office locations, regional team meetings, industry events, and strategic customer opportunities. **Education** Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred. **Why Rimini Street?**Rimini Street Inc. is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable Federal, State, and Local Laws regarding recruitment and hiring.Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable Federal, State, or Local laws. Rimini Street Inc. offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to employees.The general salary range for this type of role is 190k - 280k (plus commission) depending on skills and experience. The actual compensation offered will ultimately be based on several factors such as: a candidate's location, and the level of applicable skills and professional experience. Rimini’s target pay for each position is available upon request during the applicant’s Interview process.Benefits for US employees include:* Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance* Disability insurance* Paid Parental Leave* 401(k) program* Generous Paid time off (PTO)We are looking for talented, passionate people to help us build our future at Rimini Street. We hire only the best, the most extraordinary professionals and provide compensation, bonuses, and benefits to match the skills of our top-performing team members. Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy growing together, and get excited about learning new skills? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a true impact as part of a team of extraordinary professionals? This is the place for you.