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SLED AE- SoCal

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Compensation
$94–185K/yr
Location
CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The SLED Account Executive sells Commvault solutions to a defined list of public-sector customers and prospects, achieving quota through account growth and new acquisition. The role involves face-to-face field sales, strategic account planning, coordinating cross-functional teams and partners, and presenting financial, technical, and strategic value propositions. Candidates must be located in Southern California and have enterprise software sales success, including experience with complex platforms and SLED storage or data management.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Enterprise Software SalesComplex Platform SalesStrategic Account PlanningAccount PenetrationSales Campaign DevelopmentFinancial Business CasesROI and TCO AnalysisSales ProposalsDeal NegotiationStorage ManagementData ManagementSaaSIT InfrastructureCommunicationPersuasionListeningMEDDICCommand of the Message

Qualifications

Bachelor's DegreeProven Sales ExperienceEnterprise-Level Software SalesSix- and Seven-Figure DealsIntegrated Selling Team ManagementSLED Storage Management ExperienceTwo Years Sales SuccessSouthern California Location

Benefits

Tuition Assistance

Full job description

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What to know:

  • Commvault does not conduct interviews by email or text.

  • We will never ask you to submit sensitive documents (including banking information, SSN, etc) before your first day.

  • Commvault recruiters may contact prospective candidates through LinkedIn and other professional networking platforms regarding career opportunities. If you are unsure whether a recruiting communication is legitimate, review the profile to ensure they have a badge verifying them as a Commvault employee.

If you suspect a recruiting scam, please contact us at [email protected]

About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

The Opportunity

The SLED Account Executive is responsible for achieving quota by selling solutions into a defined account list that may include current Commvault SLED customers and high value prospects. The position is a field sales role where the AE will engage in face-to-face sales with customers and prospects either directly or through partners. The Account Executive plans, organizes, leads and controls balanced sales growth, account penetration and customer satisfaction on a long-term multi-quarter basis. This individual may lead a cross-functional sales team and is responsible for creating sales campaigns to penetrate/expand his/her target accounts. The AE must have the ability to articulate an in-depth understanding of the customers’ environment, current challenges/goals and have the ability to align Commvault solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition. The candidate must have a history of success in selling complex software platforms (vs. IT component or narrow focused tools) and should have some level of prior engagement with the target account set.

Must be located in Southern California to be considered for role

What you’ll do…

  • Achieve quarterly and annual quotas by selling to new and established – large, complex prospects and customer.

  • Develop and implement Strategic account plans for target account expansion and new account acquisition including performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones for a one and three-year period.

  • Create sale campaigns into target accounts and closely coordinate company executive involvement with customer/prospect leadership.

  • Coordinate the involvement of company personnel, including support, service, and management resources, in order to meet account performance objectives and customers’ expectations.

  • Manage a matrixed sales team; liaison with clients, Deal Desk, inside sales, partners, channels, sales engineers, professional services, finance and legal to drive a prospect to close

  • Establish and maintain a productive, professional relationship with key personnel in assigned customer/prospect accounts.

  • Construct and deliver tangible business cases at the CXO level including financial (ROI & TCO), technical and strategic value propositions.

  • Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to new and existing clients.

  • Identify and build strategic relationships with partners and alliances that have existing relationships with the assigned target accounts.

  • Negotiate and close deals following the company’s practices and processes.

  • Ensure orders meet all legal and financial requirements.

  • Maintain a high level of relevant industry, Commvault and competitive knowledge.

  • Plan, attend and coordinate executive briefings.

  • Leverage internal sales tools and processes to drive opportunities to a successful close.

Who you are…

  • Bachelor’s degree and proven sales experience.

  • Demonstrable success in software sales at the enterprise level; selling six-and-seven figure deals and managing an integrated selling team.

  • Experience in the storage management industry within SLED.

  • Deep understanding of the storage management or data management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace.

  • Minimum of two years success in identifying, building relationships and selling directly or with partners.

  • Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills.

  • Background in IT infrastructure; SaaS Experience Preferred

Meet the Hiring Manager:

Jared Whitehurst, Sales Director - SLED

You’ll love working here because:

  • High income earning opportunities based on self-performance

  • Opportunity for Presidents Club

  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message

  • Generous competitive benefits supporting your health, financial security, and work-life balance

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!

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Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.

Pay Range

$93,500—$185,150 USD

Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

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How this job compares

Set against the 11,958 open Account Executive jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$94–185K/yr
  • California median$130–190K/yr1,263 salary ranges
  • US median$112–150K/yr8,841 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $139K, is 15% below the California median midpoint ($164K) — in the middle half of Account Executive salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,574 open Account Executive jobs in California and 11,958 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Account Executive postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,109 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,676 of the 11,958 open Account Executive jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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