Mgr, Solutions Engineering

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

Lead and inspire a high‑performing team of Solutions Engineers and/or front‑line leaders to drive the growth of NetApp’s business. This role focuses on delivering impactful customer outcomes by leveraging the full technical breadth and differentiation of NetApp’s portfolio.

As a leader, you will play a key role in maximizing revenue by coaching and empowering your team to effectively influence customer buying decisions and articulate value throughout the sales cycle.

This position requires regular travel to engage closely with team members, customers, and partners, ensuring strong relationships and successful business outcomes.

Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape the future of customer success and technical innovation at NetApp.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead a team of SE's to drive growth across France, in partnership with Client Executive teams, prioritizing hunting new land accounts and increasing share‑of‑wallet in expand accounts through upselling and cross‑selling.
• Focus on customer imperatives by leveraging solution portfolio and messaging to proactively drive value recognition through data infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, cyber resiliency, AI, and Block benefits.
• Act as technical sales orchestrator, pulling in the right experts at the right place and right time, to enable teams’ success; own and lead the delivery of accurate forecasts and sales stage progression through disciplined use of sales tools; consistently meet and exceed sales quota.
• Coach teams to conduct demonstrations and lead Proofs of Concept (POCs) to establish customer confidence and maximize solution differentiation. Coach teams to document customers’ requirements, areas of opportunity, business objectives, and develop high‑quality proposals that illustrate how our solutions meet their requirements, resolve pain points and create differentiated outcomes.
• Drive a high‑performance culture leveraging Thrive Performance & Rewards program which includes transparency around performance expectations, providing consistent and actionable feedback, and leveraging rewards planning for differentiation.
• Proactively identify high‑potential team members and provide ongoing coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to cultivate their skills and advance their careers; effectively manage underperforming team members with fairness and transparency, while swiftly recruiting and integrating high‑performing talent to enhance team productivity.

Job Requirements

• Fluent in English and French (C1‑C2 level).
• Expertise in coaching team members’ technical knowledge, industry trends awareness, and applying insights and expertise to solve client problems.
• Proven ability to oversee the discovery and development of new opportunities, managing the pipeline and ensuring effective relationship management to maximize revenue.
• Highly organized, data‑driven and committed to Sales Excellence. Strong executive presence, influence and communication skills; ability to build and nurture strong relationships with team members, customers, and partners.
• Proven success in hiring, developing and performance managing teams, while maintaining a strong team culture.
• Demonstrated ability to stay ahead of industry trends, customer challenges, and competitive developments that support NetApp’s value proposition.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of market dynamics that help address and solve customers’ goals and needs. Understanding of NetApp’s solution domains, AI, use‑cases, and associated sales plays, with the ability to assess and coach talent on the same.

Hybrid working environment

Most roles will have some level of in‑office and/or in‑person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.