Senior Sales Engineer, Strategic Accounts

| Philadelphia, PA
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Join us as we pursue our vision to be the data platform for the hybrid world! With over 13,000 customers including 96 of the Fortune 100, Splunk is proud to be featured repeatedly on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. Learn about Splunk's Values.

Role

Are you passionate about groundbreaking technology and helping your customers and peers succeed? Would you like the opportunity to work at a fast-growing, world-leading data company that is changing the way that information is used to support business decisions? If you answered yes to these questions, we have a home for you at Splunk!

Splunk is seeking a highly motivated, inherently curious, results-oriented individual to join our dynamic pre-sales team. You will be the primary technical advisor for your customers, and their technical advocate within Splunk. (This is not a post-sales technical account management role).

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the regional sales team to develop strategic and technical account and territory plans.
  • Demonstrate Splunk's platform to customers on-site or remotely, with a focus on value-based differentiators and continual discovery.
  • Build long-term growth and adoption plans that help advance customer business priorities.
  • Execute deeply technical Proofs of Value as required.
  • Respond to RFIs/RFPs.
  • Own the technical sales relationship with your customers, and earn the right to advise them. Building relationships is a key part of the job, but you also need to be technical.
  • Own the technical solutioning and win strategy for multiple large opportunities.
  • Own the coordination for a matrixed account team involving many specialists at Splunk.
  • Frequent technical learning to keep up with the changing customer technology landscape and Splunk's own evolving portfolio.


IMPORTANT We can teach you the technology, coach you on soft skills and educate you on processes. You should have a strong sense of self-motivation, an insatiable curiosity about what "is possible" with technology, the desire to work with an awesome team and a positive, fun-loving attitude. Proactivity in your work, demonstrating ownership of your relationships and accounts, and a drive to succeed in the face of obstacles are essential to success in this role.

Requirements

  • 5+ years related experience selling and supporting software products to IT organizations.
  • Experience positioning the business value of technology to large enterprises and engaging in complex sales cycles. This is not an entry-level sales engineering position.
  • Strong technical fundamentals in a relevant part of the Observability or Security markets. e.g. IT operations, Security operations, DevOps, infrastructure software, cloud, monitoring, networking, storage, systems administration, software development, application management, DevOps etc.
  • Dynamic presentation skills and ability to communicate clearly. Strong interpersonal skills, both written and oral, and an ability to communicate complex ideas to all levels of the business.
  • Ability to be organized and analytical. Able to eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.
  • Comfortable working for a dynamic, ever-evolving organization with a fast-growing customer base. The ability to take change and ambiguity in stride is important. Fast-growing companies do not stand still
  • Desire to learn, grow and be a part of our expanding and dynamic team
  • Available to travel 25-30% to visit prospects and customers in-region and occasionally across the country.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or substantial relevant on the job experience
  • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.



Strongly desired

  • Experience selling SaaS to large enterprise accounts
  • Experience with on-prem to cloud migrations
  • Good knowledge of AWS, Azure or GCP
  • DevOps experience



Nice to have

  • Knowledge of the modern big data landscape. Data lakes, warehouses, pipelines, orchestration etc. OR
  • Experience with modern application development - Docker, Kubernetes, git, Jenkins, Terraform, Istio etc. OR
  • Cybersecurity technical sales or consulting experience


Are you looking for an incredible place to work that celebrates innovation, leadership and creativity? Please contact us. Splunk offers competitive compensation, excellent benefits and a famously inclusive, fun culture. When you join Splunk you'll be working with a team of smart people who are as passionate about our products and helping each other out as our customers' success.

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying. For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!

More Information on Splunk
Splunk operates in the Big Data industry. The company is located in San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA, Plano, TX and McLean, VA. It has 8062 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance and 401(K). To see all 27 open jobs at Splunk, click here.
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