Arista Networks

Client Sales Director (Financial/Trading Vertical)

Arista Networks$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent with 15+ years of technology sales experience
  • Strong leadership skills and ability to influence executives
  • Proven track record of strategic selling and closing high-value deals ($20M - $50M) in the Financial/Trading sector
  • Relevant data center or networking industry background is required
  • Extensive network of relationships within the territory
  • Excellent interpersonal skills for relationship-building at all levels
  • Technical acumen in Networking, SDN, NFV, Routing, Data Center, Edge Computing, or Cloud computing

Responsibilities

  • Exceed stakeholder expectations and build relationships with executive leaders
  • Utilize a consultative selling approach to understand client business needs
  • Meet with decision-makers to present Arista's value proposition
  • Work with systems engineers to create compelling data center solutions
  • Collaborate with technology partners to identify new prospects
  • Manage key channel relationships within the territory
  • Develop strategic account plans based on regular business reviews
  • Conduct demand generation activities like lunch-n-learns and tech forums

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Wellbeing programs
  • Tax savings opportunities and income protection
  • Possibility for discretionary bonuses and commissions
  • Equity options
Full Job Description
Job Description

Who You'll Work With

As a team member of the Arista Sales team, you are the face of Arista to our customers; their internal champion for the problems they need to solve. As their champion you will align Arista's technical resources to achieve your customer's business outcome. You will partner with some of the most skilled Customer Engineers in the industry in addition to our Professional Services and Executive teams to help them understand how to execute on your customer's behalf. Our sales teams have a culture of team success, where you'll collaborate and be supported by like minded sales professionals. This role typically reports to a Regional Sales Manager or Area VP of Sales.

What You'll Do

We are seeking a proven Client Sales Director to join our growing Sales organization in the New York City market. The Client Director role is expected to be a trusted advisor to key C-levels with a key Arista Financial Trading customer and implement a strategic sales strategy to intimately understand their business drivers and expand our footprint.

Arista appeals to forward-thinking organizations that value quality and innovation. Consequently, technical acumen and a track record of selling data center solutions is highly desirable.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Exceed key stakeholder demands with a key Arista account and foster executive level relationship
  • You will be responsible for utilizing a consultative selling approach with key client stakeholders to address the business needs of quantum analytics and the financial trading vertical market by positioning Arista's data-driven product portfolio of Software-Driven High Performance Data Center and AI Networking solutions.
  • Meet with key influencers, decision-makers, and C-levels to present Arista's value proposition.
  • Work with Arista systems engineers to design and position compelling solutions that drive down the total cost of ownership.
  • Collaborate with technology partners to identify prospects and demonstrate best-in-class solutions.
  • Establish and manage key channel relationships in your territory.
  • Formulate strategic and tactical account plans based on periodic business reviews with your prospects and customers.
  • Conduct demand generation activities such as happy hours, lunch-n-learns and technology forums.
  • Collaborate with Arista peers on marketing plans and best practices.
  • Keep up-to-date with technology partner solutions, competing solutions and competitor strategies.


Qualifications

You are a Sales Leader and have a proven track record of technology of strategic selling and pursing large big bet deals within the Fortune 500. You are an influencer and possess the ability to act as a trusted advisor to deliver business value to both end users and C-level key business stakeholders.

Our team looks for individuals who embody our values of trust, compassion, collaboration, respectfulness, integrity, and good-natured fun.

Minimum Job Requirements:
  • BS/BA degree or equivalent in addition to 15+ years of technology sales experience.
  • Strong leadership skills and the ability to be an executive influencer.
  • Proven track record of strategic selling and closing $20M - $50M deals within the Financial and/or Trading / Equity vertical.
  • You possess relevant data center or networking (LAN/WAN, SDN) industry background from a technology partner, competitor, channel partner or end user is a a requirement.
  • Strong rolodex and relationships within the territory
  • Excellent people skills and ability to build relationships at all levels
  • You possess previous selling experience and technical acumen in one or more of the following areas; Networking, SDN, NFV, Switching, Network Automation, Routing, Data Center, Edge Computing, Network Virtualization, Hyper converged infrastructure or Cloud computing.

Compensation Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $130,000 to $180,000. The actual salary offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and US location. The salary range provided reflects the base salary and in addition may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses, commissions, equity, and benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

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Additional Information

About Arista Networks

Arista Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking solutions for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments. Arista Networks was founded in 2004 by former Cisco Systems engineers and is led by CEO Jayshree Ullal. The company went public in 2014 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ANET.
Learn more about Arista Networks
Size
2,993 employees
Market Cap
$36.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$634.5 million
Founded
2004
5 Year Trend
+21.2%
Revenue
$2.3 billion
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