Position Title: Sales Executive

Locations: Chicago, Texas

Virtual Iron Software, Inc. is an award winning software startup, well-funded by top tier investors. We were recently named one of 10 Hot Start-Ups to watch by Network World magazine. Key industry analysts from firms including IDC, Gartner and Illuminata have praised Virtual Iron and its product. The company has a focused, collaborative, and high-energy environment, founded by well-respected industry veterans where working hard, having fun and building a great company are important. Virtual Iron has a strong team of people that believe virtualization can transform the data center and offer great business value to our customers both now and in the future. We are committed to expanding our team with highly motivated, talented and creative individuals.
 
We offer highly competitive compensation packages and comprehensive benefits. Most of our benefits begin upon your date of hire with Virtual Iron Software. 

We are growing our sales organization.  We are seeking talented, aggressive and highly-motivated individuals to sell our data center virtualization and management software solutions to enterprise customers.  If you are an over-achiever, driven by new business success, and you've got what it takes to build, lead and scale a new business initiative, then we want to speak with you.
 
The right candidate will have full responsibility and accountability for all sales activities in the regional area, lead a process-driven approach to sales qualification and revenue closure and work closely with Virtual Iron’s marketing, systems engineering, professional services and executive teams in a complex, enterprise sales environment.

Qualifications:

• Dynamic, high energy, creative sales professional with years of quota-beating sales experience (IT infrastructure software sales experience is mandatory)
• Strong executive-level contact base
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly “seed and grow” new enterprise customers
• Technical acumen with ability to present and sell technology products in a business context
• Proven ability to negotiate and close enterprise-level software license agreements
• Consultative, process-oriented approach to selling with track record of qualifying and closing complex, high value sales transactions
• Timely and predictable sales forecasting skills
• Exemplary interpersonal and presentation skills
• Willingness and desire to travel extensively in support of sales activities and team success

Interested and qualified candidates, please submit your resume via e-mail to jobs at virtualiron.com.