Associate Account Manager

Who Youll 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 Aristas technical resources to achieve your customers 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 customers behalf. Our sales teams have a culture of team success where youll collaborate and be supported by like minded sales professionals. This role typically reports to a Regional Sales Manager or Area VP of Sales. 

What Youll Do

We currently have an opening for a Sales Associate Account Manager to join our growing Sales organization in the Minneapolis MN area. This is an amazing opportunity for an individual who wants to pursue a career in sales.

In this role you will be responsible for collaborating with the Sales Leadership team and Senior Account Managers to perform internal sales support functions including new sales pipeline development lead generation field marketing activities and sales operations support for Field Account Managers in the region.  

Arista appeals very strongly to engineering-centric organizations and thus a strong technical acumen and track record of selling data center networking solutions has proven to be highly valuable.

Job Responsibilities:

• You will conduct lead generation calls with key customer influencers and present the Arista value proposition to generate new meetings for Field Account Managers. 

• You will generate new opportunities for Aristas Software-Driven Data Center and Campus switching platforms in addition to our Cloud based Wireless WIFI solutions DANZ Fabric Monitoring and Zero Trust security products.  

• Drive new attendees to marketing events. 

• You will assist with the planning and coordination of quarterly field marketing events and track attendance metrics. 

• You provide Sales operations support for Field Account Managers including sales quote assistance order submissions and assistance with billing issues. 

• Attend sales training and shadow Senior Account Managers for career progression to a Field Territory Account Manager position. 

• Keep up-to-date with technology partner solutions competing solutions and competitor strategies.

The Team

This position will typically report to a Regional Sales Director or Regional VP of Sales. You will be part of a team that includes the best field engineers in the cloud networking industry. And you will have the support of our industry-leading Arista TAC proof-of-concept resources and executive team.

Qualifications :

We are seeking an Associate level Sales Representative who is passionate about pursuing and growing a career in technology sales. 

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

Minimum Job Requirements:

• BS/BA/BBA degree or equivalent in addition to 2-3 years of technology sales experience.

• You possess previous experience in roles or internships in Sales Marketing Sales Operations or Sales Associate 

• Experience supporting Capital Market and Trading Firms a plus

• Excellent people skills and ability to build relationships at all levels

• You have a passion for technology and a strong technical acumen in any of the following areas Cloud Networking Virtualization Network Security Compute SaaS/IaaS Wireless (Wifi) Network Monitoring 

• Ability to work in a fast paced work environment 

Compensation Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $63000.00 to $90000.00. 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 :

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer.  Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal state or law law.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time