Senior Sales Engineer

As a Senior Sales Engineer - New York you will play a crucial role in understanding our customers' unique challenges and tailoring Hammerspace solutions to meet their specific needs. Collaborating closely with the sales team you will act as a technical expert during the sales process helping to showcase the value of our products and services.

Should You Accept This Challenge You Will

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making

• Connect the dots from technology solutions inclusive of the Hammerspace portfolio and others from the ecosystem to measurable customer business outcomes

• Partner closely with account managers specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business

• Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Hammerspace solution

• Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products distributed storage architectures file systems and competitive storage offerings in the DAS NAS and SAN product spaces

• Take control of evaluations benchmarks and system configurations

• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts

• Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity

• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs RFQs and RFIs

• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability functional and performance testing/validation

• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges

• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives

• Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest differentiated solution positioning

• Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization

What You’ll Need To Bring To This Role...

• 5 years (minimum) Pre-sales experience in Data Storage / Data Management is required

• 5 or more years of relevant experience mixed among technology design and communications required. Experience supporting the sale of enterprise storage networking systems cloud or software to enterprise accounts preferred

• Deep understanding of the architecture design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions

• Must have experience with NFS

• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients

• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs RFQs and RFIs

• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC iSCSI NAS NFS OSD SAN)

• Previous experience with Linux NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment

• Installation/configuration of distributed computing multiprocessing virtual memory subsystem storage subsystems architecture shared memory architectures cache architectures windowing systems

• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture On-Prem Public Cloud Provisioning Automation and Containers

• Knowledge of VMware Local Area Networking Ethernet TCP/IP and general networking

• Familiarity with AWS Azure GCP a plus

• Familiarity with containers k8s and microservices architectures a plus

• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers

• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL Oracle) is highly desirable

• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills

To the extent required by state or local hiring regulations we will consider for employment any qualified applicant including those with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

The anticipated compensation range for this role is $250000-300000(OTE). Actual compensation will be determined by several factors including but not limited to level of professional/education experience skills/abilities internal equity and budgetary considerations. In addition Hammerspace offers a broad range of health plans for medical dental vision life and disability. We also offer 401k plans and flexible time off. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Hammerspace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color gender religion sex sexual orientation age disability military status or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal state or applicable local law.

Agencies are hereby specifically directed not to contact Hammerspace employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. To protect the interests of all parties Hammerspace will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Hammerspace will be considered Hammerspace property. Hammerspace will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Hammerspace will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.

Agency must obtain advance written approval from Hammerspace’s recruiting function to submit resumes and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Hammerspace will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place.