Strategic Solutions Sales Executive - Key Accounts & DOD
U.S. A&D – Enterprise Linux – Key Accounts & DOD
Location – US. Remote
U.S. Citizen
ABOUT WIND RIVER
Wind River Systems, Inc. (WR) is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical, intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy.
The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions — such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers — and in recent 5G milestones — including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and in building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. Our new product, eLxr Pro, is a Debian-based Linux Kernel designed to compete with Red Hat Enterprise and Edge Linux, SUSE Enterprise/Edge Linux, Oracle Linux, and Canonical Ubuntu Pro/Core.
The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software-defined world.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Wind River is a leading technology solutions provider with a rich history of serving the U.S. Aerospace & Defense (A&D) market. We are actively seeking an experienced Strategic Solutions Sales Specialist for Enterprise Linux, A&D Key Accounts, to lead our Enterprise Linux business growth initiatives. This position will be focused on working with our Tier 2 and Tier 3 system integrator customer base and the US Air Force and US Navy within our A&D customer vertical. The chosen candidate will be involved in identifying, influencing, developing, and capturing high-value enterprise Linux opportunities within the sector.
This position will be part of the U.S. A&D Field Sales Organization and report to the Director of Sales for this segment.
Position Overview
Wind River seeks a highly motivated and experienced senior level sales executive to join our elite sales team for our innovative Enterprise and Edge Linux product, eLxr Pro. This role is crucial in driving the adoption of our cutting-edge Linux and cloud solution and positioning Wind River as a leader in the enterprise Linux market, with a particular focus on the Aerospace and Defense sectors. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in enterprise software sales within the Linux and cloud ecosystem and excel at building relationships with key stakeholders in large organizations, especially within the U.S. Aerospace and Defense Tier 2 / Tier 3 system integrator customers and the U.S. Department of Defense (Air Force and Navy) segments.
Your opportunity is to join as a key member of our A&D Sales team to be responsible for developing new Enterprise Linux business opportunities with our Key Account and DOD customers. This position will interface internally with Account Managers (AM), Field Application Engineers (FAE), Legal, Contracts, Services Delivery personnel to scope and develop Statements of Work (SOW) / Request for Proposal (RFP) responses. You will also interface with key customer personnel who are driving these programs. In addition to the sales organization, you will be collaborating with and have the support of Product Management, Marketing, Engineering, Solution Architects, and the Wind River Executive team. You should possess strong business acumen, industry segment acumen, knowledge of product development processes and software life cycles, and conversational knowledge of today’s transformative technologies in the embedded space.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
BENEFITS
The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $292,000 to $380,000 OTE for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $306,000 to $400,000 OTE for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics.
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