Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

• Exceed measurable sales objectives and extend the Arista brand within a named list of Higher Education accounts in addition to developing new logo accounts.
• You will be responsible for utilizing a consultative selling approach with key client stakeholders to address the business needs of hybrid cloud computing and siloed legacy IT systems across the Arista product portfolio including, software-driven Cloud Networking solutions, CloudEOS (OpenSource Network OS), Cognitive Campus Networking, Wifi networking, and CloudVision (Network Automation & Telemetry) and Monitoring Fabric solutions (Big Switch)
• Meet with key influencers, decision-makers, and C-levels to present Arista’s value proposition.
• Work with Arista systems engineers to design and position compelling solutions that drive down the total cost of ownership.
• Collaborate with technology partners to identify prospects and demonstrate best-in-class solutions
• Establish and manage key channel relationships in your territory.
• Formulate strategic and tactical account plans based on periodic business reviews with your prospects and customers.
• Conduct demand generation activities such as happy hours, lunch-n-learns and technology forums.
• Collaborate with Arista peers on marketing plans and best practices.
• Keep up-to-date with technology partner solutions, competing solutions and competitor strategies.

Required Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent in addition to 5+ years of technology sales experience.
• Proven track record of direct selling into targeted Higher Education accounts within the assigned territory and exceeding sales targets.
• You possess relevant data center or networking (LAN/WAN, SDN) industry background from a technology partner, competitor, channel partner or end user is a requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong rolodex and relationships within the territory.
• Excellent people skills and ability to build relationships at all levels.
• You possess previous selling experience and technical acumen in one or more of the following areas; Networking, SDN, NFV, Switching, Network Automation, Routing, Data Center, Edge Computing, Network Virtualization, Hyper-converged infrastructure or Cloud computing.

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About Commvault

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Account Manager, SaaS Sales at Commvault is responsible for self-generating leads, advancing the sales process, closing new/existing business and achieving individual sales quotas. This is a full sales cycle role that requires the successful candidate to seek and find new prospects, progress with leads from channel and marketing, up-sell into existing install and close the deals in the defined territories (list of SMB accounts).

The ideal candidate will have a consistent record of selling and closing deals directly in collaboration with channel partners. They must have strong negotiation and hunting skills in addition of a challenger mentality to ensure that the deal closes at an acceptable level of value!

This role requires being on site in the office in Fort Lauderdale 4 days per week, WFH Fridays

• Develop sales opportunities by researching and prospecting (cold/warm call) within the assigned territory.
• Upsell and Cross-sell the client base
• Set up and deliver sales presentations and product/service demonstrations
• Assist in crafting RFP responses to potential clients.
• Support marketing and channel efforts like tradeshows, partner events etc.
• Overcome objections and deliver an individual sales quota.
• Emphasize product/service features and benefits, quote prices, discuss credit terms and prepare sales order forms.
• Enter new customer data and update changes to existing accounts in the corporate database.
• Attend periodic sales training where applicable.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, computer science or technology
• Be able to drive to the Fort Lauderdale office four days a week.
• Understanding of Commvault products/industry will be a big plus.
• Ideally, experience with Microsoft Office, SFDC and Outreach.io (or other Customer Engagement Platform)
• Office/home base role (hybrid), with visits to customers and partners
• Strong customer handling skills with a collaborative style, supporting internal and external clients, as needed
• Multi-tasking and time management skills to optimally work under deadline pressures
• Effectively works in a team-based environment with limited supervision, as well as independently to complete work duties
• Effective problem-solving skills to detect changes in circumstances or events
• Maintains a high level of professionalism, courteous demeanor and confidentiality

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Continuous professional development, product training and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
• Generous Global Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, and within the below base salary range:

$51,000 - $146,100

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that care for you and your family through our 401K plan, health benefits (including medical, dental, and vision available for families and domestic partners), and pet insurance for your furry family members. You can also find the details of our U.S. benefits by visiting benefits.commvault.com.

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.

Commvault’s goal is to make interviewing inclusive and accessible to all candidates and employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to participate in the interview process or apply for a position at Commvault, please email accommodations@commvault.com For any inquiries not related to an accommodation please reach out to wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com.

For our Candidates to prioritize your security:

Commvault has been made aware of email and/or text correspondence scams that falsely state that the senders are from the Commvault HR team and/or a member of our leadership team. The scammers even conduct false interviews via email or text and then request personal information (name, address, birthdate, social security number, etc.) when returning the signed offer letter. Please note that Commvault does not conduct interviews by email or text, and we will never ask you to submit a W4 via email or prior to your first day of employment.

If you think you have been targeted in this recruiting scam, please reach out to us at wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com. You can also find more tips about job scams and how to avoid them on the FTC’s website.

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor on Palo Alto Networks' SD-WAN products and capabilities, to prospects and customers, working with your Account Managers and the local partners within your territory
• Architect and propose validated solutions which address the identified SD-WAN and security problems in each individual environment
• Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions
• Ensure ongoing customer happiness, support and adoption
• Pursue continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (data center, SDN, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)
• Understand and effectively differentiate against our top competitors
• Act as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow-up with the customer through resolution

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant technical pre-sales systems engineering work experience within the networking field
• Highly advanced experience with SD-WAN architectures/providers, as well as BGP routing
• Ability to travel up to 50% as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• WAN technologies - MPLS, MetroE, Leased Lines, Broadband
• Tunneling protocols - SSL/TLS, IPSec, GRE, DMVPN
• IP Routing - BGP, OSPF, Static, Network Address Translation
• Virtualization technologies - ESX, KVM, Xen, Microsoft preferred
• Network security capabilities - IPS/IDS, Zone-Based Firewalls

The Team

SASE technologies have taken center stage and Palo Alto Networks has made significant investments in best-in-class capabilities to serve our customers’ needs and win against the competition. We’ve received validation from customers and analysts that our approach is visionary and compelling.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $198000 - $273000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: Yes