Account Executive, Public Sector, Saudi Arabia

About

Pure Storage is driving a new era of enterprise data storage and management. With a team of more than 5,600 incredibly talented people globally, Pure Storage delivers the industry’s best platform to store, manage, and protect the world’s data. With a cloud experience across a unified storage operating environment, Pure Storage empowers every organization with the agility to meet evolving data requirements at speed and scale while reducing total cost of ownership.

Job Description

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE…

In this role, you'll:

  • Evangelize our radically simple, all-flash enterprise storage technology and data solutions, ensuring customers fully grasp Pure’s total value proposition
  • Build and invest in relationships with customers to establish Pure’s value, continually driving the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the industry
  • Lead pursuit teams and develop account plans to make sure all internal resources are engaged to execute and win new Pure Customers 
  • Drive and manage a healthy and robust pipeline of sales activity to assure quarterly and annual quotas are met or exceeded

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

  • Authenticity and a genuine desire to engage customers and understand their business challenges 
  • Thought leadership, creativity and a Challenger Mindset; the ability to apply your customer insights and expertise in technology solutions to position Pure’s portfolio to solve persistent problems
  • Avid hunter with proven prospecting skills, consistently opening doors to new customers and navigating seamlessly between the boardroom and the data center while passionately positioning the advantages of a Pure Storage solution
  • Excellent interpersonal skills including written and oral communication, able to build relationships easily and deepen them over time
  • Ability to assess, plan, and actively manage a territory to achieve maximum revenue and efficiency
  • Expertise leading a complex sales process with multiple stakeholders, while fostering teamwork and shared ownership internally and with Partners
  • Consistent track record of exceeding quota and driving referenceable business.
  • Passionate about post-sales customer success
  • 5 + years of outside sales with a focus on Public Sector new logo acquisition or business development in a technology vendor or Partner; consistently delivering $5-$10M per year in revenues
  • You will be based in Riyadh already, or have long term referenceable experience of selling in Saudi Arabia.
  • This is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in the office for 3 days a week when not with clients or partners. As outlined in Pure's Hybrid Work Policy, there will be variations over periods of time, depending on business need.

 

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Riyadh
  • Possible full remote