--- title: 'Enterprise Account Executive - Chicago at Commvault' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-chicago-commvault-illinois-united-states-of-yn54fscy5zq8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Enterprise Account Executive - Chicago at Commvault - **Company:** Commvault - **Location:** Illinois United States of, United States - **Compensation:** $94k–$183k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/commvault/jobs/5389108008 ## Job description Recruitment Fraud Alert We’ve learned that scammers are impersonating Commvault team members—including HR and leadership—via email or text. These bad actors may conduct fake interviews and ask for personal information, such as your social security number. What to know: - Commvault does not conduct interviews by email or text. - We will never ask you to submit sensitive documents (including banking information, SSN, etc) before your first day. If you suspect a recruiting scam, please contact us at wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com ## About Commvault Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. The Opportunity The Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for achieving quota by selling solutions into a defined account list that may include current Commvault customers and high value prospects. The position is a field sales role where the AE will engage in face-to-face sales with customers and prospects either directly or through partners. The Account Executive plans, organizes, leads and controls balanced sales growth, account penetration and customer satisfaction on a long-term multi-quarter basis. This individual may lead a cross-functional sales team and is responsible for creating sales campaigns to penetrate/expand his/her target accounts. The AE must have the ability to articulate an in-depth understanding of the customers’ environment, current challenges/goals and have the ability to align Commvault solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition. The candidate must have a history of success in selling complex software platforms (vs. IT component or narrow focused tools) and should have some level of prior engagement with the target account set. ## What you’ll do… - Achieve quarterly and annual quotas by selling to new and established – large, complex prospects and customer. - Develop and implement Strategic account plans for target account expansion and new account acquisition including performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones for a one and three-year period. - Create sale campaigns into target accounts and closely coordinate company executive involvement with customer/prospect leadership. - Coordinate the involvement of company personnel, including support, service, and management resources, in order to meet account performance objectives and customers’ expectations. - Manage a matrixed sales team; liaison with clients, Deal Desk, inside sales, partners, channels, sales engineers, professional services, finance and legal to drive a prospect to close - Establish and maintain a productive, professional relationship with key personnel in assigned customer/prospect accounts. - Construct and deliver tangible business cases at the CXO level including financial (ROI & TCO), technical and strategic value propositions - Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to new and existing clients - Identify and build strategic relationships with partners and alliances that have existing relationships with the assigned target accounts - Negotiate and close deals following the company’s practices and processes - Ensure orders meet all legal and financial requirements - Maintain a high level of relevant industry, Commvault and competitive knowledge - Plan, attend and coordinate executive briefings - Leverage internal sales tools and processes to drive opportunities to a successful close. ## Who you are… - Bachelor’s degree and proven sales experience. - Demonstrable success in software sales at the enterprise level; selling six-and-seven figure deals and managing an integrated selling team - ## Experience in the storage management industry - Deep understanding of the storage management or data management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace - Minimum of two years success in identifying, building relationships and selling directly or with partners - Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills - Background in IT infrastructure; SaaS Experience Preferred Meet the Hiring Manager: Erin Duffy - Sales Director, Enterprise North Central You’ll love working here because: - High income earning opportunities based on self-performance - Opportunity for Presidents Club - Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message - Generous competitive benefits supporting your health, financial security, and work-life balance Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now! ## #LI-JM1 Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience. Pay Range $93,500—$182,850 USD Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work. Commvault’s goal is to make interviewing inclusive and accessible to all candidates and employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to participate in the interview process or apply for a position at Commvault, please email accommodations@commvault.com For any inquiries not related to an accommodation please reach out to wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com. [Commvault's Privacy Policy](https://www.commvault.com/privacy-policy) ## About Commvault ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Commvault provides a cloud-native platform that unifies data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery to help enterprises protect and recover their data across any environment. - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: CVLT) - **Headquarters**: Tinton Falls, New Jersey, USA - **Founded**: 1996 (spun off from Bell Labs) - **Founders**: Not publicly available as a single founder; the company originated from a technology developed at Bell Labs. ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Enterprise data protection, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery, cloud resilience. - **Target customers**: Large enterprises and mid-market organizations (B2B); IT, security, and infrastructure teams. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To redefine what it means to be resilient" by enabling organizations to protect, govern, and recover their data across clouds, regions, and platforms, turning resilience from a reactive task into a proactive discipline [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/about-us). ## Products & Services - **Commvault Cloud**: A unified, cloud-native platform that delivers data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery at enterprise scale. It provides a single view to secure, govern, and recover all data wherever it lives. [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/) - **Commvault Cloud Unity**: The latest iteration of the platform, integrating data security, identity resilience, and cyber recovery into one intelligent experience. [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/) - **Data Security**: Solutions for discovering, protecting, and governing access to data in real-time. [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/cyber-resilience) - **Identity Resilience**: Protects identity systems (e.g., Active Directory, Entra ID) and restores clean, trusted access at scale. [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/cyber-resilience) - **Cyber Recovery**: Enables fast, clean, and complete recovery of data and systems after a cyberattack or disaster. [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/cyber-resilience) - **ResilienceOps (ResOps)**: A framework for operationalizing resilience, making protection and recovery continuous, intelligent, and automated. [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/about-us) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: As of July 2026, Commvault’s market capitalization is approximately $9.6 billion (based on recent public trading data). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue - Commvault reported revenue of approximately $926 million for the fiscal year ending March 2025. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: As a public company, major institutional shareholders include Vanguard, BlackRock, and other asset managers. Key technology partners include AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and leading identity providers. - **Growth Signals**: - Named a Leader in the **Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms** for the 14th time, the only vendor to achieve this consistently [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/about-us). - Over 1,600 lifetime patents driving innovation [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/about-us). - Strong focus on the emerging "cyber resilience" market, integrating identity and data recovery. - Consistent revenue growth and expansion into cloud-native SaaS offerings. ## Competitive Advantages - **Pioneering "ResilienceOps"**: Commvault has defined and is operationalizing the concept of ResilienceOps, a framework that integrates data security, identity, and recovery into a single automated discipline, setting it apart from point solution vendors. - **Unified Platform**: Unlike competitors that offer separate tools for backup, identity protection, and security, Commvault provides one cloud-native platform that unifies these functions, reducing complexity for enterprise customers. - **14-Time Gartner Leader**: The longest-standing streak as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for its primary market, signaling consistent execution and innovation. - **Patented Technology**: A portfolio of over 1,600 lifetime patents provides a strong technological moat. - **Hybrid Cloud Expertise**: Deep capabilities for protecting data across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, a critical need for large enterprises. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Readiness**: Actively positioning the platform to help customers safely leverage AI by protecting the data that powers AI models and ensuring clean, trusted data for AI initiatives. The company's tagline includes "Only Commvault makes you ready for AI." [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/). - **Deepening Cloud Integration**: Continuing to invest in its cloud-native platform and native integrations with major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP). - **Expanding the Identity Resilience Market**: Driving adoption of its identity protection solutions as a key pillar of its unified resilience platform. - **Growing SaaS Revenue**: Transitioning more customers to its cloud-based SaaS offerings for predictable, recurring revenue. ## Why Work Here - **Culture of Innovation**: Commvault emphasizes innovation, with a "dream big, work hard" ethos. Employees are encouraged to solve the hardest problems in the industry [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/careers). - **Mission-Driven Work**: The company’s work is directly tied to protecting critical data and operations for the world's leading organizations, offering a sense of purpose ("What you do matters") [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/careers). - **Award-Winning Culture**: The company has been recognized for creating a culture of care, support, and innovation, with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion ("We speak human and celebrate diversity") [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/careers). - **Flexibility**: The company supports hybrid and remote work models in many roles, offering flexibility to help employees balance personal and professional goals [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/careers). - **Global Impact**: With over 2,800 employees worldwide and customers across the globe, Vaulters have a chance to work on globally significant problems and with diverse teams [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/about-us). - **Core Values**: The company is guided by four core values: **We Connect** (unite people), **We Inspire** (innovate and disrupt), **We Care** (speak human, celebrate diversity), and **We Deliver** (keep promises) [commvault.com](https://www.commvault.com/about-us/our-values). ## Sources 1. [Commvault Company Overview](https://www.commvault.com/about-us) 2. [Commvault Careers Page](https://www.commvault.com/careers) 3. [Commvault Job Listings](https://www.commvault.com/careers/jobs) 4. [Commvault Values and Culture](https://www.commvault.com/about-us/our-values) 5. [Commvault Cyber Resilience Solutions](https://www.commvault.com/cyber-resilience) 6. [Commvault Homepage](https://www.commvault.com/) 7. 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