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Sr. Storage Sales Specialist, Enterprise

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Amazon Web Services, Inc. logoAmazon Web · Irvine, CA
Full-timeOn-site1w ago
AWS
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Responsibilities

  • Drive Revenue Growth: Achieve and exceed quarterly and annual sales quotas for storage solutions, including hardware, software, and services across the assigned territory or named accounts
  • Solution Development: Collaborate with customers to understand their data management challenges and design comprehensive storage solutions encompassing SAN, NAS, object storage, cloud storage, and hybrid architectures
  • Account Planning: Develop and execute strategic account plans that identify opportunities, map stakeholders, and outline engagement strategies to maximize wallet share within target accounts
  • Technical Discovery: Lead discovery sessions to assess customer environments, identify pain points, and quantify business impact of storage inefficiencies, data protection gaps, and capacity constraints
  • Proposal Development: Create compelling proposals and business cases that articulate ROI, TCO analysis, and competitive differentiation for recommended storage solutions
  • Sales Cycle Management: Own the full sales cycle from prospecting through close, including qualification, demonstration coordination, proof-of-concept management, negotiation, and contract execution
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with pre-sales engineers, solution architects, professional services, and customer success
  • Pipeline Development: Maintain a healthy pipeline through proactive prospecting, lead follow-up, customer referrals.
  • Market Intelligence: Stay current on storage industry trends, competitive landscape and emerging technologies

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
  • 5+ years of technology sales selling enterprise software, networking, infrastructure, managed hosting services, or cloud computing services experience
  • Experience in the field working with enterprise accounts
  • 7+ years of technology sales selling enterprise software, networking, infrastructure, managed hosting services, or cloud computing services experience
  • Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
  • Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Additional Information

The Storage Sales Specialist is a quota-carrying sales professional responsible for driving revenue growth through the sale of enterprise storage solutions to new and existing customers. This role serves as a trusted advisor to clients, helping them navigate complex data management challenges by designing and recommending optimal storage architectures that align with their business objectives. The ideal candidate combines deep technical knowledge of storage technologies with exceptional consultative selling skills, enabling them to engage effectively with both technical practitioners and C-level executives. This position requires the ability to articulate the business value of storage investments, manage complex sales cycles, and build lasting customer relationships. Key job responsibilities


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