Automation Sales Specialist

🕒 May 21

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $211.7k - $349.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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Red Hat

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1993

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Corporate Round on 1999-03

Enterprise • Cloud

Red Hat is a leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, helping companies worldwide to build and deploy applications across hybrid cloud infrastructures. With a strong focus on developing secure, stable, and innovative technologies, Red Hat offers a broad portfolio including products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. These products support IT services on any infrastructure efficiently. Trusted by more than 90% of the U. S. Fortune 500, Red Hat empowers organizations to modernize their IT environments, leveraging open source communities to drive technological advancement.

📋 Description

• Owns the development of new strategic sales opportunities. • Leads critical customer presentations/sessions around business problems, Red Hat solutions, business value, competitive positioning and product capabilities and roadmaps. • Maintains relevant and detailed knowledge about products in your domain (features, updates, success stories, etc.) and general knowledge of the RH portfolio. • Maintains knowledge and enables account teams on current "Plays" in your domain (ISVs, use cases, solution blueprints, Red Hat Sales Plays, etc.). • Advises on and speaks to forecasts for appropriate products, services and training. • Guides strategy based on deep knowledge of industry or specialty. • Positions right sized solutions (subs, services, partners) in the context of addressing the customer’s challenges or problems in their environment. • Drive growth beyond initial sale and deployment to scale and expansion to other relevant products. • Coordinate with Customer Success on the delivery of the proposed business value/solution.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong technology foundation (business-focused SA, Tech Leader, Prod Manager, Big 6 Consultant, Specialist, App Dev delivery, start-up AE) with ability to translate business value. • Challenger mentality with demonstrated persuasiveness. • Passion and curiosity about technology, the market, and its future demonstrated by what you read, follow, subscribe to, listen to, etc. • Strategic thinker who sees beyond selling an individual product to a single need. • Entrepreneurial and motivated to run your own business within the role. Prior startup experience is a plus. • Highly effective orchestrator and collaborator, able to lead a cross-functional team (internal and partner ecosystem) through a complex sales cycle. • Compelling presenter of business and technical topics, capable of delivering demos for your domain. • C-Suite presence: charismatic, outgoing and able to “own the room” to connect individually. • Relevant experience in one or more of the following: territory, vertical, account selling. • Automation tech experience with Ansible or comparable technology. • Experienced in key automation use cases (Infrastructure as Code, Ops as Code, security, network, etc.). • Conversant with ROI nuances and business-value arguments around high-degree automation and autonomous operations. • Experience with technology offerings and economics of cloud computing. • Knowledge of the principles and processes of open source technology.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care • Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan • Retirement 401(k) with employer match • Paid time off and holidays • Paid parental leave plans for all new parents • Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave • Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!