What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Engineer - Southern California position at Gigamon?
Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.
We are seeking a Southern California-based Sales Engineer to support our Enterprise Sales team in the Southwest Region. The Sales Engineer is a critical component of the sales team in the region. The primary responsibility is to drive technical sales activities in new and existing opportunities in Enterprise accounts. A Sales Engineer will have in-depth, hands-on experience with products and services, as well as competitor's products and services, and can demonstrate solid networking and security skills to customers and partners.
What you'll do:
- Provide technical Sales support for all Gigamon products and solutions.
- Performs a high-level specialized systems engineering role as an individual contributor specializing in pre-sales activities
- Performs in-depth and technical presentations for customers, partners, and events.
- Designs network monitoring architectures with top customers.
- Responsible for all customer proof of concepts and product evaluations from deployment to completion.
- Provides mentorship/guidance on Technology and competitive trends to clients, partners, and employees.
- Manage key End User technical relationships.
- Communication driver between Field and Corporate on technical issues.
- Complex pre-sales technical support.
- Account and Partner Management/Development
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical area (Computer Science, Computer Engineering); or equivalent work experience.
- 5-7 years experience in a Pre-Sales Engineer role in network and Security.
- Experience in VMWare, AWS, or Azure is desirable
- Experience in a customer-facing role.
- Effective technical presentation skills.
- Good Communication capabilities.
- Comfortable with technical and business English usage (documents reading, e-mails, conference calls).
We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive Gigamon. As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law.
Gigamon fosters a business culture dedicated to equitable hiring. Please still apply if your experience and skills closely match our job description but may only fulfill some requirements. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.
The base salary compensation range targeted for this role based out of Gigamon’s Santa Clara, CA, Headquarters office is $108,000 - $154,000, with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to terms and conditions of the plan). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.
Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Company’s standard employee benefit programs, which currently include health insurance, health savings accounts, life, AD&D, disability, 401(k) plan with company matching contributions, paid time off (holidays, vacation, and sick), tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program (EAP), business travel accident insurance, employee discounts, and employee referral program. Additionally, employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Profit Interest Units plan.
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Salary : $108,000 - $154,000