Strategic Client Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Minnesota, USA
Remote
170K-273K Annually
Expert/Leader
Software
The Role
Own pre-sales technical strategy for strategic enterprise accounts, serving as a trusted advisor across security, backup, cloud, and AI teams. Partner with account executives and product teams to shape requirements, lead solution design, workshops, demos, PoCs, and competitive sales motions. Build executive and technical relationships, support account plans, identify expansion opportunities, and advocate for customer needs. The role requires substantial enterprise sales engineering experience and travel to customers up to 50%.
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About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

As a Strategic Client Engineer supporting strategic accounts, you will act as a trusted technical advisor owning pre-sales technical strategy, shaping customer requirements and influencing outcomes in complex, competitive sales cycles.  

The Strategic Client Engineer for Strategic accounts work with our largest customers and prospects while partnering closely with Account Executives, post sales, and product teams to drive measurable business and technical value. This role reports to the Senior Director of Sales Engineering and operates at the intersection of technical depth, business acumen, and competitive selling discipline.

**Candidates must live in Minnesota to be considered for this role**

What you’ll do…
•    Build, own, and expand relationships with technical champions in key strategic accounts across security, backup, cloud, and AI teams.
•    Partner with the Major Account Manager to implement national account plans and drive execution of strategic initiatives
•    Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes and multi-product solutions.
•    Leverage champion relationships to influence broader buying groups, shape requirements, and uncover cross-sell and expansion opportunities.
•    Maintain engagement beyond initial sale ensuring outcomes are realized and leveraging insights to support future sales motions. 
•    Translate high-level account goals into technical deliverables, including solution design, bid preparation and delivery coordination as the technical owner for several large strategic accounts.
•    Advocate for customer needs within Commvault product and engineering teams, providing feedback informed by field experience.
•    Coordinate and lead technical workshops, demos and business reviews to scale impact across accounts. 
•    Actively support competitive sales motions by identifying differentiation and influencing evaluation criteria throughout the sales cycle.
•    Develop and maintain partnerships with key VARs, OEMs and GSIs in the accounts.

Who you are…
•    8-10+ years of proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise sales.
•    5+ years of experience working in major or global accounts.
•    Strong experience running competitive PoCs/PoVs with clearly defined success and exit criteria.
•    Advanced understanding of cyber resilience, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern application architectures.
•    Ability to operate as a self-starter taking ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.
•    Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers.
•    Be a highly collaborative thought leader engaging regularly with senior leadership across Commvault.
•    Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
•    Positive energy, work ethic, and vision.
•    Willingness to travel to customers up to 50%. 

Meet the Hiring Manager: Adrian Simays – Senior Director, Sales Engineering

You’ll love working here because:

  • High income earning opportunities based on self performance
  • Opportunity for Presidents Club
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
  • Generous competitive benefits supporting your health, financial security, and work-life balance

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!

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Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.

Pay Range
$170,000—$272,550 USD

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 [email protected] For any inquiries not related to an accommodation please reach out to [email protected].


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Skills Required

  • 8-10+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise sales
  • 5+ years of experience working in major or global accounts
  • Experience running competitive proofs of concept or proofs of value with defined success and exit criteria
  • Advanced understanding of cyber resilience, cloud platforms, and modern application architectures
  • Ability to independently own technical responsibilities within customer accounts
  • Experience preparing or delivering technical product and architecture presentations to customers
  • Strong communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills
  • Willingness to travel to customers up to 50%

Commvault Systems, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are broad, with multiple medical plan choices alongside dental, vision, mental‑health resources, and fertility support. These offerings, paired with EAP and wellbeing tools, are often regarded as a strong part of the package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes manager‑approved Freedom PTO, paid holidays, and sick time. The breadth and flexibility are commonly seen as strengths.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan with a discounted, look‑back feature provides accessible ownership upside. This equity component is often viewed as a standout element of the total package.

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The Company
HQ: Tinton Falls, NJ
3,464 Employees
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Commvault's data protection and information management solutions provide mid- and enterprise-level organizations worldwide with a significantly better way to get value from their data Commvault can help companies protect, access and use all of their data, anywhere and anytime, turning data into a powerful strategic asset.

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