Services Account Executive
Job Summary
As a Services Account Executive, you are the face of the Professional Services (PS) organization to our clients and internal account teams. Your primary responsibility is to evangelize and sell NetApp’s Consulting and Managed Services offerings, while helping customers unlock greater value from their data, infrastructure, and cloud investments.
This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending overlay support with direct opportunity ownership. You will partner closely with NetApp account teams, solution architects, and technical specialists, while also proactively originating and driving service-led opportunities within strategic accounts.
A key expectation is to evolve beyond traditional attach motions toward independently building and closing services engagements. You will engage with large-scale enterprise and service provider environments, working with customers to identify needs across modernization initiatives such as hybrid cloud adoption, platform engineering, AI-enabled infrastructure, and operational transformation.
Success in this role requires the ability to connect business outcomes to technical capabilities including automation, observability, reliability, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of direct consulting or services sales experience, preferably within large-scale enterprise, hyperscaler, service provider, or telecom environments
- Demonstrated ability to originate and close service-led opportunities, not solely attach to product sales
- Experience engaging customers on platform-level concerns, including: Instrumentation & telemetry / observability, Automation & orchestration, Reliability, availability, and performance optimization, Cost optimization / FinOps principles within large-scale environments
- Proven ability to operate in complex, highly matrixed environments with both overlay and direct sales responsibilities
- Strong business acumen combined with the ability to credibly engage technical stakeholders (architects, SREs, platform leaders)
- Executive presence with strong communication skills; comfortable leading discussions with Director through CTO-level audiences
- Experience with professional services scoping, proposal development, and Statement of Work (SOW) creation and negotiation
- Highly self-motivated, with the ability to operate effectively in unstructured environments and proactively build pipeline
- Strong collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing account teams and driving alignment across stakeholders
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience selling into or working with hyperscalers, large service providers, or telecom operators
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure, data platforms, or high-performance workloads
- Exposure to cloud economics and FinOps frameworks
- Experience working with or selling into platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE organizations
Compensation
The target salary range for this position is 253,000 - 327,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range.
Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s).
These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies.