Account Executive - Cloud Infrastructure

  • Full-time

Company Description

Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. The company provides a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With Lens and the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, Mirantis empowers a new breed of Kubernetes developers by removing infrastructure and operations complexity and providing one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and devops portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management with continuous updates.

Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Societe Generale, Splunk, and Volkswagen. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

Job Description

Mirantis is adding an Account Executive to our team! You will develop and execute a strategic and comprehensive business plan for your territory, including identifying core customers, mapping the benefits of OpenStack to customer’s business requirements. You will take full responsibility for accurate forecasting, regular quarterly revenue delivery, and facilitation of sales enablement and regulate the implementation of agreed account and business plans. Your overall focus areas will be in prospecting, developing business, responding to RFP's, developing proposals for presentation to customers, and selling Services and Products. Cross-functional teams from Mirantis’ Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, and Product Development functions will provide support and tools for you to leverage to attain and exceed sales performance goals. 

Main Responsibilities:

  • Pipeline Generation - acquire new customer databases from calling into high level within prospect organizations, networking, and various customer account lists.
  • Participates in campaigns, conferences, works with marketing teams to understand new offers and leads in assigned regions, generates leads independently and follows-up appropriately.
  • Solution Selling – consults with clients to determine their needs and works with application sales specialists to generate multi-product/service solutions. Take initiative to learn new offers and products, as they become available.
  • Proposal/Presentation Generation: incorporates executive summary, ROI analysis, and solution design to develop customer-specific proposals and presentations.
  • Develop Scope of Work – works with the customer and engineering team to define and document the project scope. 
  • Relationship Management – develops and manages relationships with current clients to develop additional business as well as ensure a high level of client satisfaction.
  • Accurate Forecasting – captures activity information on a timely basis as client interactions occur to ensure accurate product and services forecasting.

Qualifications

  • High School diploma or equivalent required, four-year college degree preferred
  • Excellent communication in English and French
  • 5+ years selling experience with cloud technology products and solutions such as Cisco, EMC (Storage), VMware, NetApp, Oracle and managed services.
  • Understanding of OpenSource, Kubernetes is highly recommended.
  • Market knowledge (i.e. industry knowledge relevant to the geographic area) and technical knowledge are necessary
  • Must possess the business experience to analyze client business requirements and develop creative solutions as well as utilize technical resources to complete an accurate and technically assured sales order.
  • Exceptional communication skills.
  • Ability to accept constructive criticism; and ability to maintain and develop positive team cohesiveness.
  • Work constructively across cultural boundaries in a globally distributed organization.

Additional Information

What does Mirantis offer you?

  • Work with an established leader in the cloud infrastructure industry.
  • Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.
  • Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.
  • Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued.
  • Receive a competitive compensation package with strong benefits plan and stock options.

Mirantis ranked in the top 50 of G2's Best IT Cloud Products of 2021!

We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!

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