This is a high-visibility role focused on executing against strategic growth strategies.

• Working with the Seagate sales team, help to identify the most significant enterprise, cloud, and edge customers. Navigate and penetrate these accounts to form relationships at senior business and technical levels
• Own and manage the technical relationship with the customer. Manage the technical portion of the sales process from prospecting -> demonstrating -> implementing the hands on evaluation / POC process -> leading technical portion of RFI/RFQs -> if needed, initiate and manage the SOW which is the fundamental technical interlock on joint projects -> support the pre-GA technical questions and issues -> support partner selling motion
• Conceiving new methodologies for problem solving and convincing others to follow these approaches
• Full authority to determine objectives and approaches to critical assignments
• Understand the customer's technical roadmap, systems architecture, pain points, competitive options, and business drivers. Establish the role of trusted advisor with the customer. Identify solutions for Seagate and the partner ecosystem to provide value, and use these value points to influence the customer to secure qualification of Seagate products.
• Tangibly influence roadmap definition for the division/company
• Demonstrate effective leadership across the cross functional core team
• Travel, as needed, domestically and internationally.
• Maintain opportunities, status and actions in CRM and other systems
• Pro-actively learn and apply industry technologies to customer solutions (including On Premise and Cloud Storage Technologies, OS/Applications/File Systems, Server Virtualization, and Micro-services)
• Identify gaps in the Seagate portfolio and suggest product and or partners to fill these gaps
• Provide company leading technical expertise in customer-focused solutions for key vertical markets

• Established track record working with large Cloud customers to align and achieve successful outcomes, while ensuring a satisfying customer experience along the way
• Strong technical experience and understanding of computing technologies used in full solution on premise, private / public cloud, and edge computing environments
• Objective and open to change - be a change agent to help others do the same
• Ability to create and maintain trusting relationships with external and internal customers
• Ability to work hands on for prototypes, demos, assisting customers during the evaluation process, etc.
• Team player
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment
• Analytical mind
• Strong customer focus
• Self-starter

• Recognized as an expert in the field of storage systems sales engineering
• Deep technical understanding, experience, contacts, and sales success of enterprise class storage sold to cloud service provider (CSP) environments
• Awareness of current trends in Cloud architecture, Orchestration & Storage
• Experience and or strong understanding of the following: server virtualization, operating systems and file systems, data management, object storage, high availability, disaster recovery solutions, big data analytics
• 10-15 years of work in sales/solution engineering with enterprise customers
• Bachelor degree and/or equivalent experience.

Location: Fremont, CA or USA Remote West Coast

Travel: Travel can be up to 50%, with overnight stays, and require the ability to travel internationally.