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We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together. One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform. With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us.
Job Responsibility:
Partner with Confluent’s Field Sales organization including
Regional Sales Directors (RSDs), Account Executives (AEs) the Customer Success Group (CSG) and Confluent Partners
Engage with prospects and customers to drive discovery within strategic accounts, early in the sales cycle, to help identify new land and expansion opportunities for Confluent to add value
Identify and clearly communicate the business value Confluent can deliver
Compose winning deal structures and proposals and manage customer negotiations
Support will help drive deal velocity, while maximizing Confluent bookings and revenue and value to the end customer
Gain a solid understanding of Confluent’s portfolio and value propositions and also work closely with teams across Confluent, in order to ensure deal structures and proposals match customer needs
Providing field feedback to the business on
customer requirements, buying patterns and competitive intel, so the business can continually evolve pricing, deal structure strategy and the overall Confluent value proposition
Facilitate enablement (education and training), to drive best practice in the Field
Focus on customer engagements, early in the sales cycle of our most strategic customers (driving both new lands and expansions), with the goal of identifying and communicating the business value of our solutions
Support account planning
Complete deep-dive discoveries with prospects and customers
Create & deliver business value deliverables
Craft winning value propositions
Act as a subject matter expert for deal structuring, including complex pricing strategy, and value propositions, leveraging Confluent value selling methodologies
Support sales teams on the structuring of strategic, complex, and competitive deals, applying deal best practices
Engage customer Executives and Partners to communicate Confluent’s vision and value proposition, around Data in Motion
This can include presenting at events and running roundtable discussions
Maintain an evolving subject matter expertise in Confluents portfolio and on-prem, cloud and hybrid deal constructs
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree
7+ years experience in Business Value Consulting, Value Engineering, Strategic Consulting, Deal Strategy, Sales, Finance or customer negotiation type roles
Financial analysis and modeling of ROI and TCO concepts to justify business cases
Expertise in driving organizations toward greater effectiveness and efficiency
Thorough understanding of all industry-standard and non-standard software selling models including SaaS, perpetual, on-demand, consumption, etc.
An interest in Data
Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure - and an aptitude to learn about Data in Motion and Confluent’s portfolio
Awareness of the Data industry and SaaS / Cloud industry in general
Proven track record of improving deal velocity alongside Risk Management
Passion for using data to drive decision making
Superior contract negotiation skills
Strong abstract thinker able to apply complex concepts across a variety of situations
Proven project management experience
successfully leading and completing projects
Experience working with remote Sales and business partner teams
Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to synthesize and effectively communicate information across teams, roles, and levels
Experience working with companies that have public cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises deployment options