Jobs at VAST Data

Seeking an experienced Sales Executive to drive sales for VAST Data's analytics and AI platform, requiring strong industry knowledge and exceptional sales skills.

Lead and scale a global commercial legal function for high-value AI and infrastructure transactions. Design global contract playbooks, manage regulatory alignment (EU AI Act, GDPR, CCPA), build distributed commercial counsel teams, implement legal AI/CLM tooling, and enable GTM velocity while ensuring governance and risk-managed deal execution.

Provide technical leadership for enterprise storage solutions: assist customers with evaluations, benchmarks, configurations, and installations; collaborate with R&D on product requirements; support sales with architecture blueprints and presentations; develop field engineering capabilities and advise on support organization design.

Lead and build VAST's Corporate Development function: source, evaluate, and execute strategic investments and M&A; perform market research, diligence, financial modeling, negotiation, integration planning, and special strategic projects; support investor relations and maintain cross-functional relationships to drive strategic growth.

The role involves developing business, generating revenue, managing sales processes and customer relationships, and expanding accounts. Requires strong communication and technical skills in the storage industry.

Own the B2B website product roadmap from initiative definition through launch, including scope, backlog, acceptance criteria, component strategy, content structure, and product sign-off. Establish success metrics, analyze performance in GA4, and lead experimentation and personalization. Manage web requests, stakeholder communication, vendor evaluations, and CMS migration or replatforming efforts while coaching teams on agile operating practices.

Defines and markets integrated technical solutions between VAST and technology alliance partners. Creates reference architectures, whitepapers, solution briefs, deployment guides, demonstrations, and enablement materials. Serves as a technical subject matter expert for sales, partners, and enterprise customers; supports RFPs, campaigns, training, events, and webinars. Collaborates with product, engineering, alliance, and partner teams to shape messaging, validate solutions, gather customer insights, and influence product direction.

Lead product marketing strategy for high-performance computing customers, including positioning, messaging, go-to-market initiatives, customer research, content development, thought leadership, campaigns, and customer advocacy. Collaborate with sales, marketing, partners, and cross-functional teams to communicate product value, support launches, develop customer stories, and track marketing KPIs.

Lead VAST Data’s global cloud marketing strategy across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and sovereign cloud providers. Build the global neocloud program, drive joint go-to-market initiatives, shape product positioning, lead executive evangelism, oversee cloud product marketing, coordinate demand generation, and manage marketing investments. The role also involves building a high-performing global cloud marketing function and connecting marketing programs to partner adoption, pipeline, and revenue growth.

Manage full-cycle recruitment for global R&D and technical roles, primarily in the US. Partner with hiring managers to define candidate profiles, develop sourcing strategies, attract and evaluate technical talent, guide interviews and offers, and ensure a strong candidate experience. Provide insights into US technology talent markets, compensation trends, and hiring practices while collaborating across global time zones.

Designs reference architectures for AI and data center networks, including BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, RoCEv2, and QoS. Builds and operates labs to qualify switches, NICs, and network operating systems; tests interoperability and performance; reproduces customer issues; and diagnoses routing, congestion, packet loss, MTU, and latency problems across GPU, fabric, and storage paths. Documents best practices, develops automation, collaborates with vendors and internal teams, and feeds findings into product development.

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic customers to design and operate large-scale data infrastructure, troubleshoot distributed systems and networking issues, develop automation and APIs, and translate deployment challenges into product improvements. The role requires deep expertise in storage, Linux internals, high-performance networking, Python and C/C++, plus customer-facing communication and up to 25% travel.

Own technical strategy and field success for VAST deployments on partner hardware, especially EBox. Architect and size solutions, set performance expectations, validate infrastructure readiness, guide deployments, troubleshoot complex hardware and software issues, and support strategic customers and partners. Collaborate with Sales Engineering, Support, Engineering, and Product while developing repeatable deployment practices and technical guidance.

Lead sales strategy and revenue growth for VAST Data’s data platform across the West Coast. Responsibilities include prospecting, expanding customer relationships, delivering technical product presentations, negotiating and closing contracts, forecasting pipeline, collaborating with marketing, product management, and customer success, and representing the company at industry events. The role requires extensive B2B sales experience, database and data management knowledge, executive relationship-building skills, and proficiency with CRM tools.

Drive net-new sales growth across the U.S. Federal cloud market. The role develops strategic account plans, builds executive and partner relationships, creates pipeline, navigates complex government procurement, leads enterprise sales cycles, coordinates co-sell opportunities with cloud providers and partners, and closes large infrastructure, data, AI, and hybrid-cloud transactions.

Leads VAST Data’s cloud business development strategy and relationships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Builds joint solutions, value propositions, go-to-market strategies, and co-sell motions that generate customer adoption, pipeline, and revenue. Engages executives, customers, product and engineering teams, and partner field organizations to advance complex AI infrastructure opportunities. Establishes business plans and operating cadences while building and leading a high-performing cloud business development organization.

Drive new customer acquisition for VAST Data’s AI and analytics platform. Build pipeline through strategic prospecting, account-based selling, executive engagement, and partner relationships. Manage complex enterprise sales cycles from discovery and technical evaluation through negotiation, closing, and expansion. Engage data, analytics, AI, engineering, and executive stakeholders while developing account plans, forecasting pipeline, and translating technical capabilities into business outcomes.

Owns technical strategy and field success for VAST deployments on partner hardware, especially EBox. Architects and sizes infrastructure solutions, defines performance expectations, validates deployment readiness, leads complex troubleshooting, and supports strategic customer engagements. Partners with Sales Engineering, Support, Engineering, Product, and OEM teams to develop custom solutions, deployment plans, repeatable architectures, and best practices for enterprise storage and software-defined infrastructure.

Lead VAST Data’s business development strategy and strategic partnerships across the AI inference and accelerator ecosystem. Build relationships with compute, semiconductor, accelerator, cloud, and infrastructure companies; define joint technical and commercial value propositions; develop reference architectures, solutions, account strategies, co-selling motions, and enterprise go-to-market programs. Coordinate VAST’s sales, product, engineering, solutions, and marketing teams with partner organizations while evaluating emerging technologies and creating structure in an evolving market.

Own and expand VAST Data’s strategic go-to-market partnership with AMD. Build executive, product, alliances, and field relationships; develop joint solutions, reference designs, enablement, and positioning; activate AMD sellers to identify opportunities; connect field teams and generate pipeline; and coordinate internal product, engineering, sales, and technical stakeholders. The role may later expand to additional strategic hardware partnerships.