Cohesity

Enterprise Account Executive | Bay Area

Cohesity$283K — $315K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in sales roles
  • Proven success in proposing enterprise solutions
  • Track record of collaboration with customers and technology partners
  • Skilled in navigating multiple decision-makers
  • Comfortable presenting to various audiences
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently
  • Willingness to travel as needed
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Familiarity with leveraging AI tools for productivity

Responsibilities

  • Implement sales strategies to drive business growth
  • Develop and manage the sales pipeline for strategic transactions
  • Collaborate with channel partners to promote the Cohesity solution
  • Proactively engage accounts, reaching decision-makers and closing sales
  • Create and execute sales strategies for assigned regions
  • Build a compelling case for Cohesity's hyper-converged infrastructure
  • Coordinate team efforts to close business quarterly and annually

Benefits

  • Health and wellness benefits
  • Vacation and paid holidays
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Life and disability insurance coverages
  • Comprehensive benefits framework
Full Job Description
Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the indefinite right to work in the job location.

We're looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to help develop and grow a defined territory. This is an active, hands-on sales role where you'll focus on prospecting, building pipeline, and closing opportunities, while also supporting the expansion of existing accounts. You'll work in a fast-moving space within enterprise technology-data security and AI-powered resilience-gaining exposure to complex customer needs and high-impact solutions.

How You'll Spend Your Time Here:
  • Execute a territory plan focused on net-new logo acquisition and account growth across a defined set of enterprise accounts
  • Build, manage, and progress a qualified sales pipeline, including opportunities you source directly and those supported through channel partners
  • Work within complex customer organisations by identifying key stakeholders, building relationships, and engaging with senior decision-makers as your experience grows
  • Support and lead customer engagements through discovery, evaluation, proposal development, and solution alignment, with guidance from Sales Engineers and leadership
  • Develop and deliver clear, value-based proposals that connect Cohesity's platform to customer security, resilience, and operational needs
  • Collaborate closely with channel partners and technology alliances (including NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, and AWS) to support deal execution and expand market reach
  • Maintain accurate opportunity tracking and forecasting, and contribute to consistent quarterly performance
  • Share customer insights and competitive feedback with the wider sales and product teams to support continuous improvement


We'd Love to Talk to You If You Have Many of the Following:
  • Demonstrated experience selling into and partnering with Information Security / Cybersecurity teams, with a strong understanding of enterprise security frameworks, compliance standards, and the ability to align solutions to customer security and risk requirements.
  • A customer-focused mindset and strong interest in cybersecurity and data protection, especially ransomware and recovery
  • Proven experience selling enterprise technology solutions, ideally within infrastructure, SaaS, or adjacent markets
  • Evidence of success contributing to net-new customer acquisition and growing existing accounts
  • Foundational understanding of data security and backup technologies, with a willingness to deepen technical knowledge
    • Familiarity with Cohesity solutions (DataProtect, DataHawk, SmartFiles) is a plus
    • Exposure to platforms such as NetBackup, Backup Exec, or InfoScale is helpful but not required
  • Comfort working with channel partners, with an interest in developing co-selling skills
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to customers and internal stakeholders
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve productivity, organisation, and sales effectiveness
  • Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Professional English language proficiency for customer and internal communication
  • Willingness to travel as required


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Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate's skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay Range :

$283,500.00-$315,000.00

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

Current pay transparency shows the OTE (On-Target Earnings) for commission-based roles.

In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.

About Cohesity

Cohesity is a data management company that provides a web-scale platform for consolidating secondary storage silos onto a single, easy-to-manage solution. The company's products include Cohesity DataProtect, Cohesity DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios, and Cohesity SmartFiles. Cohesity was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Learn more about Cohesity
Size
1,600 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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