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POSITION OVERVIEW/OBJECTIVE:
Establishes relationships by skillfully engaging with IT decision makers to identify opportunities and sell SolarWinds products and services within the Navy and US Marine Corp. Works diligently to prospect, qualify, and close business within assigned territory. Educates prospective clients on products and services by conducting effective product demos.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Engage directly with IT decision makers within the federal government.
- Use a consultative approach to make warm calls and manage warm inbound leads for one or more of the following:
- Product evaluation requests
- Customers who have downloaded trial versions of our products
- Current customers who have additional IT product needs
- Partner with sales engineering to conduct technical and non-technical online web product demonstrations.
- Identify the best platform fit for the customer and cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, while building and maintaining customer rapport.
- Strategically identify renewal, new business, channel partnership, and local market opportunities.
- Provide superior customer service when assisting potential customers during their evaluation process. Create quotes and new customer accounts, coordinate with channel partners, and close sales.
- Maintain accurate customer records, activity, and pipeline reports within Salesforce.
- Meet or exceed quarterly sales quota.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Solid understanding of the sales cadence to optimize its execution
- Previous experience working at a value-added reseller or distributor
- Channel experience is a plus
- Passion for selling and enthusiastic self-starter with a “can-do” attitude
- Demonstrated ability to convert prospects and close deals by phone while achieving established sales quotas
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate (oral and written) effectively is critical
- Develop and manage the pipeline, providing weekly updates to forecast
- Proficiency in Salesforce is preferred
- Solid understanding of IT concepts in order to quickly absorb and apply company-administered training
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2 years' experience in a sales environment
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
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SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
