Arista Networks

Major Account Manager - Service Provider

Arista Networks$126K — $166K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent required
  • 7+ years of technology sales experience
  • Experience with large and regional Service Providers
  • Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets
  • Strong network of relationships within the territory
  • Excellent interpersonal skills for relationship building
  • Technical knowledge in networking, SDN, or cloud computing

Responsibilities

  • Exceed sales objectives for Service Provider accounts in the Mountain region
  • Utilize consultative selling with key client stakeholders
  • Meet with decision-makers to present Arista's value proposition
  • Work with systems engineers to design compelling solutions
  • Manage channel relationships within assigned territory
  • Formulate strategic account plans based on business reviews
  • Conduct demand generation activities like happy hours and tech forums

Benefits

  • Access to a globally diverse team with a flat management structure
  • Opportunities for ownership of projects
  • Collaborative environment with engineering-led management
  • Access to all aspects of the company for cross-domain work
  • Culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun
Full Job Description
Job Description

Who You'll Work With

We are seeking a proven, motivated and results driven Major Account Manager to join our growing Regional Service Provider (RSP) sales team. In this role you will be responsible for engaging with both a large Service Provider account and other Regional Services Providers customers in the Mountain region (AZ, CO UT, ID) utilizing a consultative selling approach with key client stakeholders to address the business needs and challenges of RSP's to provide technology solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of our technology products and the ability to articulate complex technical solutions that span across routing, switching, security and cloud computing..

Alternate Locations: Salt Lake City, UT / Phoenix, AZ

What You'll Do

Job Responsibilities:

Exceed measurable sales objectives and extend the Arista brand within Regional Service Providers (ISP, Cloud Provider) customers in the Mountain region in addition to developing new logo accounts.
  • You will be responsible for utilizing a consultative selling approach with key client stakeholders to address the business needs of hybrid cloud computing and siloed legacy IT systems across the Arista product portfolio including, software-driven high performance Data Centers, Campus (Wired and Wireless WI-FI), and our 800G Etherlink AI networking platforms.
  • 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 possess a hunter mentality and have a proven track record of technology sales including cultivating relationships with existing customers in addition to penetrating new logo accounts. You are an influencer and possess the ability to act as a trusted advisor to deliver business value to both end users and 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 7+ years of technology sales experience.
  • Previous experience selling into both large (Lumen, Charter) and regional Service Providers required.
  • Proven track record of direct selling into target accounts within the assigned territory and exceeding sales targets
  • You possess relevant data center or networking (LAN/WAN, SDN) industry background from a technology partner, competitor, channel partner or end user is 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 $126,000 to $166,000. 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.

Additional Information

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.

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
NASDAQ

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