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Pure Storage

Federal Account Executive, DoD

Why Pure

Pure Storage is building the data platform for the cloud era. Powered by innovative software and supported by a customer-friendly business model, our all-flash array drives are effortless, efficient and evergreen.

Customers like the San Francisco Giants, British Airways, Domino’s Pizza, Hyatt Hotels, LinkedIn, UC Berkeley and SoftBank use Pure to accelerate new data-driven applications, mining novel insights about their businesses, while substantially reducing costs, latency and complexity.

Our portfolio of all-flash solutions include FlashArray for structured data, FlashBlade for unstructured data and FlashStack – in partnership with Cisco - for converged workloads. All of our products are built on Pure1, our mobile, cloud-based data platform.

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For three straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays. According to IDC, Pure has become a Top 10 data storage vendors faster than any other company in history. We continue to take market share, consistently outgrowing our rivals. And we consistently see customer satisfaction scores well above every other company in the enterprise technology sector. Our financial results can be found here.

Pure Storage, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015, offers an opportunity to work in a competitive, rewarding high-growth environment. We’ve built a team that has rich and diverse set of experiences and backgrounds - but with a single-minded commitment to building the next great data platform. Puritans have a passion for innovation, creativity, customer success, transparency, teamwork and fun - and we’re looking for talented people to join us on the journey.

Our Team

Puritans come from various backgrounds and we thrive off of challenging the norm. This cross pollination of backgrounds led to numerous ground breaking ideas and has helped us build one of the most reliable and easy to use storage systems in the industry. ​We strive to hire the best and brightest people, who excel in a cutting edge, fast paced, collaborative and transparent environment.  We are seeking enthusiastic individuals to solve real world problems while having fun along the way.

Pure Storage is seeking a Federal Sales professional with a proven ability to exceed assigned quota, prospect and close accounts, and build new relationships with potential customers. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to develop relationships with Channel Partners that drive revenue, as well as, relationships with customers from end users to the line of business to the CxO. This person will sell into the DoD.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Drive satisfied customers while maintaining an accurate forecast and working with multiple channel partners.
  • Generating revenue and working closely with a network of Channel Partners to successfully sell the Pure Storage solution.
  • Building a business case and establish value: develop and present proposals to customers with information that demonstrates the ability of the Pure Storage solution to meet the customers’ business objectives and justify the sale.
  • Drive account strategies and coordinate team selling efforts with partners to close business on a quarterly and annual basis.
  • Prospecting: proven track record of penetrating accounts, reaching decision-makers, and closing business.

What You Bring To The Team

  • Consistent track record of exceeding quota and driving referenceable business in Storage.
  • Generate revenue and work closely with a network of Channel Partners to successfully sell the Pure Storage solution.
  • Building a Business Case and Establish Value: develop and present proposals to customers with information that demonstrates the ability of the Pure Storage solution to meet the customers’ business objectives and justify the sale.
  • Prospecting: proven track record of penetrating accounts; reaching decision-makers and closing business.
  • Ability to assess, plan, and actively manage a territory to achieve maximum revenue and efficiency.
  • Passionate about post-sales customer success.
  • Excellent time management and communication skills.
  • Desire to drive change and evangelize new technologies.
  • Proficient with Salesforce.com and Microsoft Office.
  • Minimum of 7 years direct Federal selling experience.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment experience is key, a mix of large company and startup experience.
  • Knowledge of the storage industry specifically: Fibre Channel, NFS, and Enterprise Storage architectures.
  • Competitive attitude and strong work ethic with the ability to enthusiastically represent the company.
  • Knowledge of Virtual Server environments and RDBMS/OLTP.

Culture & Perks              

Pure is a very special place. What makes and keeps us special is who we recruit to join us and how we work together. Our culture was shaped organically as our early team poured their heart and soul into Pure’s first generation product and supporting our early customers and partners. We expect each employee to approach their job at Pure with the same level of pride and care, and perpetuate the values that are making us the best storage company in history.

At the center of those values is the belief that the single most important thing we do is continue to hire the best and create a workplace where they thrive and enjoy. To reward our employees for the great work they’re doing we offer a number of perks and benefits.

Job ID: #LI-CA1

Job ID: 549306
Employment Type: Other

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