SE manager
Cohesity
South Africa · Remote
Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe.
We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design , and our culture.
Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security?
Join us as a Senior Manager, Sales Engineering at Cohesity and play a vital role in driving our growth strategy. As a Senior Manager, you will have the unique opportunity to lead a team of exceptional Sales Engineers in delivering flawless solutions and architectures for Data Protection, Analytics, Storage, Virtualization, Database, and Cloud to our biggest clients.
At Cohesity, we believe in the power of collaboration and inclusion. As a Senior Manager, you will have close interactions with various teams, including Cohesity Sales, Customers, Engineering, Support, Product Marketing, and Partners. Your expertise and leadership will guide and empower our SE team to successfully compete in the market and drive solution closure time, deal sizes, and solution win rate.
HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:
- Lead a team in the assisting with complex customer opportunities.
- Mentor and develop team members, fostering their technical expertise and customer knowledge.
- Provide expert sales and technical assistance by clearly articulating Cohesity technology to both your SE team and customers/prospects.
- Enable customers to seamlessly integrate Cohesity products into their existing production environments.
- Assist in responding to customer and partner requests, ensuring timely and accurate information and proposals.
- Drive the secondary storage technology strategy for our largest customers and partners.
- Communicate Cohesity's vision by developing and delivering product demonstrations, workshops, white papers, and proposals.
- Guide the team in successfully implementing proof of concepts to showcase the value of Cohesity technology.
- Collaborate with product management to convey customer requirements and contribute to product development and improvements.
- Provide project management and post-sales technical support if needed.
WE’D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
- Experience and demonstrated success in a customer-facing pre-sales role, proposing enterprise solutions at all levels of a customer organization.
- Successful experience managing Sales Engineers' teams.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.
- Experience in cooperating with customers and technology partners.
- Experience selling Enterprise Hardware or Software, Cloud Platforms, IaaS, PaaS, or Virtual Infrastructure software.
- Comfort in working with multiple decision-makers to drive proposals.
- Excellent presentation skills, both technical and business, to small and large groups within the customer hierarchy.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Consistent track record of building strong relationships internally and working cross-organizationally.
- Self-motivated and a self-starter, comfortable working remotely and autonomously.
- Willingness to travel within the prescribed territory as needed.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, related field, or equivalent experience.
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