Strategic Client Engineer - Upper Midwest
Strategic Client Engineer - Upper Midwest position — see original posting for full details.
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About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.
As a Strategic Client Engineer supporting strategic accounts, you will act as a trusted technical advisor owning pre-sales technical strategy, shaping customer requirements and influencing outcomes in complex, competitive sales cycles.
The Strategic Client Engineer for Strategic accounts work with our largest customers and prospects while partnering closely with Account Executives, post sales, and product teams to drive measurable business and technical value. This role reports to the Senior Director of Sales Engineering and operates at the intersection of technical depth, business acumen, and competitive selling discipline.
**Candidates must live in Minnesota or Illinois to be considered for this role**
What you’ll do… • Build, own, and expand relationships with technical champions in key strategic accounts across security, backup, cloud, and AI teams. • Partner with the Major Account Manager to implement national account plans and drive execution of strategic initiatives • Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes and multi-product solutions. • Leverage champion relationships to influence broader buying groups, shape requirements, and uncover cross-sell and expansion opportunities. • Maintain engagement beyond initial sale ensuring outcomes are realized and leveraging insights to support future sales motions. • Translate high-level account goals into technical deliverables, including solution design, bid preparation and delivery coordination as the technical owner for several large strategic accounts. • Advocate for customer needs within Commvault product and engineering teams, providing feedback informed by field experience. • Coordinate and lead technical workshops, demos and business reviews to scale impact across
Posted June 8, 2026