Vice President, Sales Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
27 days ago
Salary
$335.2K - $452.2K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Ensure sales engineers effectively articulate Druva's differentiation against competitors in data protection, ransomware recovery, and compliance
- Strategic Initiatives
- Develop technical sales playbooks for key use cases, including ransomware recovery, cloud migration, and compliance
- Build demonstration environments, reference architectures, and technical content that accelerate sales cycles
- Establish executive briefing programs and technical workshops for strategic prospects and customers
- Partner with Marketing on technical content strategy, webinars, and thought leadership
- Drive adoption of sales engineering tools and platforms to improve productivity and customer engagement
- Customer Success & Retention
- Ensure seamless technical handoffs from pre-sales to post-sales implementation and success teams
- Engage directly with strategic customers and prospects on technical strategy and architecture
- Build trusted advisor relationships with customer technical leaders (CIOs, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure)
- Contribute to expansion revenue through technical engagement on upsell and cross-sell opportunities
- What Makes You a Great Fit
- 12+ years of progressive experience in technical pre-sales, sales engineering, or solutions architecture roles
- 5+ years in sales engineering leadership, managing global teams of 20+ professionals
- Deep expertise in enterprise data protection, backup/recovery, cybersecurity, or cloud infrastructure
- Proven track record scaling sales engineering organizations in high-growth SaaS companies
- Strong understanding of data security, ransomware protection, and cyber resilience solutions
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and multi-cloud architectures
- Familiarity with SaaS application ecosystems, endpoint management, and data governance
- Understanding of compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.)
- Demonstrated success in building and mentoring high-performing technical teams across geographies
- Excellent executive presence with the ability to engage C-level stakeholders
- Strong business acumen with an understanding of SaaS metrics, sales processes, and revenue operations
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration and influencing without direct authority
- Data-driven approach to team management, forecasting, and performance optimization
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills for technical and business audiences
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value and ROI
- Experience creating technical content, playbooks, and enablement materials
- Skilled at competitive positioning and articulating differentiation
- What Success Looks Like in the VP, Sales Engineering Role
- Technical win rate and sales engineering-influenced pipeline growth
- Sales engineering team productivity and quota attainment
- Customer technical satisfaction scores and referenceability
- Time-to-productivity for new sales engineers
- Proof of concept success rates and conversion metrics
- Team retention and employee engagement scores
- Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Opportunity to be part of the
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