Client Executive

Overview

At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards it maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.

Job Summary:

The market has shifted. AI is accelerating. The key to AI success is intelligent data and the infrastructure to manage it. Customers are urgently rethinking how they modernize, secure, and unlock value from their data. NetApp is built for this exact moment — with a differentiated platform, deep enterprise credibility, and a clear strategy to win.

Joining NetApp now means operating in a high achievement environment where you are empowered to own every moment. Our culture is grounded in three principles: innovate to elevate, drive results, excel as a team. These are more than words. They define how we show up, how we sell, and how we grow.

As a Client Executive, you play a pivotal role as the trusted advisor supporting customers with their transformations - driving outcomes, expanding relationships, and growing NetApp's business through its integrated cloud, data, storage, security, and AI- ready platform.

This is a role for sellers who want real ownership, complex challenges, and the opportunity to make a visible impact

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of customers’ strategies, goals, challenges, risks, and transformation priorities, and connect them to NetApp’s differentiated unified platform and solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor by combining business acumen, technical curiosity, and solution expertise to guide customer transformation journeys.
• Demonstrate a strong hunting mentality by identifying whitespace opportunities, new workloads, emerging buyer personas, and expansion paths across your territory.
• Execute with disciplined sales excellence, including pipeline management and forecast accuracy, leveraging MEDDICC for effective discovery and qualification.
• Drive in-quarter deal execution while building multi-quarter account plans that generate demand and address customers’ most critical pain points.
• Lead and orchestrate an integrated pursuit team to deliver a seamless customer experience, and ensure a structured post-sales handoff to Customer Success with a clear value realization plan aligned to the original business case. Who you are:

• You understand hybrid cloud architectures, data and AI platforms, and consumption economics, and can translate technology decisions into measurable KPI impact for executives.
• You are results-driven, resilient, and committed to winning—not just individually, but as part of a team that elevates one another.
• You thrive in whitespace, identifying new workloads, uncovering new buyers, and turning customer challenges into high-value opportunities.
• You are a credible executive seller who drives solution-based selling through tailored