
Senior Client Executive – Enterprise Majors
NetApp
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $306,000 - $396,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Manage and grow a focused portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts with an annual quota of $10M+
- Develop and execute comprehensive account strategies that align NetApp solutions to customer business outcomes, modernization initiatives, and long-term IT roadmaps
- Build and maintain C-level and executive relationships across IT, lines of business, procurement, and finance
- Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder buying centers and orchestrate enterprise-level sales cycles spanning 6-18+ months
- Drive both expansion within existing customer relationships and acquisition of new strategic opportunities within assigned accounts
- Apply strong MEDDICC discipline to qualify opportunities, manage pipeline health, and deliver accurate forecasts
- Partner closely with your dedicated Solutions Engineer to develop technical strategies, deliver executive-level presentations, and position differentiated value
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Cloud, Services, Customer Success, Finance, and Legal to drive deal execution and customer outcomes
- Lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and strategic planning sessions with customers and internal stakeholders
- Negotiate complex contracts, including enterprise agreements, total contract value discussions, and multi-year commitments
- Actively engage channel partners where appropriate to extend reach and deliver customer value
- Maintain deep understanding of customer industries, competitive landscape, and data infrastructure trends to position NetApp as a strategic partner
Requirements
- 8+ years of enterprise technology sales experience as an account executive or sales representative, with a proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding $8M+ annual quotas
- Required: Experience selling storage technologies and/or storage-adjacent solutions such as virtualization, data protection, backup/recovery, SAN/NAS, hybrid cloud infrastructure, or converged infrastructure, with a strong understanding of how data infrastructure components interconnect
- Required: Must love to win and sell, this is a team of high achievers.
- Background selling enterprise infrastructure, data management, cloud, or hybrid cloud technologies
- Experience selling into data-intensive and/or regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, or automotive
- Demonstrated success managing large, complex deals with total contract values of $2M+ and sales cycles of 6+ months
- Proven ability to build and maintain C-level and executive relationships within large enterprise organizations
- Strong experience with MEDDICC (or equivalent) sales methodology and disciplined pipeline management
- Experience navigating enterprise procurement processes, complex negotiations, and multi-stakeholder decision-making
- Ability to think strategically about account growth, whitespace identification, and long-term customer partnerships
- Strong business acumen and executive presence, with the ability to facilitate strategic business conversations beyond technology
- Collaborative mindset with experience working across extended account teams and cross-functional partners
- Self-motivated, accountable, and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in managing a concentrated set of strategic accounts.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement or Pension Plans
- Paid Time Off
- various Leave options
- employee stock purchase plan
- restricted stocks (RSU’s)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise technology salesstorage technologiesvirtualizationdata protectionbackup/recoverySANNAShybrid cloud infrastructureconverged infrastructureMEDDICC
Soft Skills
relationship buildingstrategic thinkingbusiness acumenexecutive presencecollaborationself-motivationaccountabilitynegotiationteamworkcommunication