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This is a remote position based in California with responsibility for the California and U.S. Pacific Territories region.
The Sales Manager (SM) orchestrates our organization’s engagements with customers and prospects and has the overall responsibility for successfully selling and negotiating multi-year complex business relationships to senior client executives, which can include the CEO, CFO, CIO, Board of Directors and evaluation committees.
The SM will create and lead the territory and account strategies to deliver maximum revenue potential across the Calix offerings into the client functions including executives, Procurement, Marketing, Planning, Engineering, and Network Operations. Value-based selling and strategic account management will be critical to enable the transformation of our client engagements and their business goals leveraging the total Calix platform.
The Sales Manager understands the importance of collaboration, and they must be an extraordinary team leader, an astute businessperson exhibiting exceptional business insight, executive/boardroom presence, and outstanding judgment. The ability to articulate our unique and compelling value proposition is important so that customer decision-makers clearly grasp the short and long-term business and financial value of a relationship with Calix.
Responsibilities and Duties:
This role will manage the customer relationship, lead and participate in developing complex solutions, establish competitive value and drive closure. This requires one to have:
· A strong understanding of the client’s business goals, financials, strategies & directions.
· In-depth knowledge of the industry trends, and competitive strategies.
· Evangelize and promote the Calix Platform vision.
· Experience partnering with other companies is frequent to enhance Calix’s solution or relationship with the client.
· Proven competency selling in a structured methodology which drives predictable pipeline quality and growth.
· Experience selling in a matrix environment requiring the understanding of colleagues’ goals and enabling success through the orchestration of the team in an inclusive and optimized manner.
Qualifications:
· The ideal candidate will have experience working with broadband services providers selling cloud solutions platforms to BSP executive teams.
· Experience coordinating and orchestrating a matrixed team is critical.
· Strong customer facing and relationship management skills with appropriate negotiation and influencing skills.
· Excellent discovery process and ability to leverage questions to learn and lead discussions.
· Successful track record of Sales success with increasingly complex deal and solution sales
· A well developed and consistent Sales process / methodology that focused on selling to Business outcomes.
· Excellent communication and people skills.
· Expertise in the utilization of discovery to learn and enable client understanding.
· Must have 4+ years of successful experience in related sales and strategy execution.
· Regional travel is required (approximately 50%-60%).
· Must have a valid Driver's License.
Location:
· This is a remote position based in California with responsibility for the California and U.S. Pacific Territories region.
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The on-target earnings for this position varies based on the geographic location. More information about the pay range specific to candidate location and other factors will be shared during the recruitment process. Individual pay is determined based on location of residence and multiple factors, including job-related knowledge, skills and experience.
San Francisco Bay Area:
283,000 - 425,000 USD AnnualSelect US Metros and States:
246,000 - 369,000 USD AnnualOther US Locations:
222,000 - 333,000 USD AnnualFor information on our benefits click here.
Skills Required
- Experience working with broadband service providers and selling cloud solution platforms to executive teams
- Experience coordinating and orchestrating a matrixed team
- Strong customer-facing relationship management, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Excellent discovery process and ability to lead client discussions through effective questioning
- Successful track record of sales success with increasingly complex deal and solution sales
- Well-developed and consistent sales process or methodology focused on business outcomes
- Excellent communication and people skills
- Expertise using discovery to understand client needs and enable client understanding
- At least 4 years of successful experience in related sales and strategy execution
- Ability to travel regionally approximately 50%–60%
- Valid driver's license
Calix Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Calix and has not been reviewed or approved by Calix.
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Flexible Benefits — Remote‑first policies include home‑internet reimbursement, home‑office furniture support, and work‑from‑anywhere flexibility. Feedback suggests these options make the package adaptable across locations and work styles.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents alongside EAP and virtual therapy/coaching. Wellbeing elements like lifestyle allowances, recharge days, and no‑internal‑meeting days further bolster health support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, wellness days, holidays, bereavement and jury‑duty leave offer broad time‑off access. Parental/bonding and caregiver leave, plus adoption assistance and medical‑travel coverage, extend support through major life events.
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What We Do
Innovative communications service providers rely on Calix platforms to help them master and monetize the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud. Calix is the leading global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems, and services required to deliver the unified access network and smart premises of tomorrow. Our platforms and services help our customers build next generation networks by embracing a DevOps operating model, optimize the subscriber experience by leveraging big data analytics, and turn the complexity of the smart home and business into new revenue streams.
