You share a passion for crafting software that has a significant impact for the world and future of cloud computing. You love solving customer problems and learning new things and are looking for a company that helps enable those ideas. Technologies come and go, but that excites you because of the endless possibilities it creates. You are looking for an opportunity to work for a company whose software is utilized by every Fortune 500 company and significantly impacts every industry. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers’ business objectives.
We need someone who is passionate about phenomenal customer and partner outcomes, work collaboratively across VMware teams to enable the Cloud Providers to conceptualize, productize and sell their cloud services built on VMware Cloud solutions. You will drive VMware subscription licensing revenue by helping service providers and managed services providers sell more of their services to more of their customers.
Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
Within your first 3 months
You will be expected to become competent with VMware’s Cloud Provider Program, licensing guidelines, product portfolios covered and standard operations.
Be a continuous learner and develop ongoing competence on new solution areas, deep technical and business knowledge of Cloud solutions, industry directions and trends in line with solution roadmaps/acquisitions.
Develop relationships with service provider teams as a trusted advisor and assist in leading and handling the technical agenda. This will include assisting in running initial product/solution proof-of-concepts and pilots.
After 3 months+
Drive technical closure for new service creation opportunities with existing and new VMware cloud partners.
Help VMware cloud partners build compelling proposals to address specific customer cloud opportunities and drive technical closures for the same.
Be a trusted advisor to cloud partners for their respective cloud strategies & leverage VMware internal ecosystem to work on a joint vision, strategy and technical/solution roadmap to drive incremental consumption for related VMware Cloud Solutions.
What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
As a member of the VCPP team, you will:
You will work with existing Sovereign cloud providers and VMware account teams to
Influence public sector and industry regulations through thought leadership interactions on digital and data sovereignty
Do joint business planning with partners and VMware account teams for Sovereign Cloud business growth
Influence customer’s multi-cloud strategy while ensuring that workloads with data sovereignty, data residency, jurisdictional control and other regulatory requirements are brought to the right VMware Sovereign Cloud Initiative partners.
Help sovereign cloud partners ensure that their cloud offerings are current with market demand and their operations comply with local laws, regulations, and policies by monitoring and documenting compliance activities, advising leadership and management on compliance matters, and liaising with government agencies as required
Responsibilities will include:
Be a continuous learner and develop ongoing competence on new solution areas, deep technical and business knowledge of Cloud solutions, compliance & regulatory requirements around data privacy and data sovereignty, industry directions and trends in line with solution roadmaps/acquisitions.
Identifying and recruiting the right new partners into the Sovereign Cloud Initiative for your territory.
Provide technical architectural guidance based on VMware’s best practices and drive the adoption of VMware products, services and technologies into Service Provider cloud offerings, eventually contributing to VMware’s subscription revenue
Coordinate within an internal set of multi-functional teams such as Systems Engineers, Product Specialists, Inside Reps, Field Marketing, Professional Services, and Channel Management and external partners as described previously.
Join hands with the sales leader and accurately forecast license bookings, specific products revenue, PSO bookings and new accounts on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis via Salesforce.com
Travel 30% of the time meeting with and presenting to current and prospective partners.
What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
This position reports to the Sr. Manager of the Cloud Solution Architecture, an experienced cloud professional based out of Mumbai who joined VMware in 2017. The team consists of highly competent senior cloud solution architects. The regional team is spread throughout VMware offices including Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.
The team culture is one based on building trust, on-going development through coaching, and giving back to the community through service learning.
This is a great opportunity for someone who likes to start new things and put their mark on a team and company.
Where is this role located?
Flexible : this role is based out of either of VMware’s Delhi , Mumbai and Bangalore office.
What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
Generous Time Off Programs
40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
Rethink’s Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes
Category : Sales
Subcategory: Systems Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-08-18
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