Ai Solution Architect

**Overview**:
At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards it maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

**About NetApp**

NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, turning a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. No matter the data type, workload or environment, we help our customers identify and realize new business possibilities. And it all starts with our people.

If this sounds like something you want to be part of, NetApp is the place for you. You can help bring new ideas to life, approaching each challenge with fresh eyes. Of course, you won't be doing it alone. At NetApp, we're all about asking for help when we need it, collaborating with others, and partnering across the organization - and beyond.

**Job summary**:
As the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, businesses rely on NetApp to help them drive value from their data, specifically in the area of AI and GenAI. NetApp Solution Architects are technology experts and evangelists in their fields and are considered the pinnacle of technical professionalism

**What you will do**:

- Collaboratively find, qualify, and develop new AI business opportunities
- Provide deep technical expertise to our customers and partners
- Design customer solutions that help drive business-oriented results
- Support all stages of the sales cycle
- Contribute to RFx proposals
- Build and nurture an external network of technical contacts
- Participate in one-to-one and one-to-many customer presentations
- Be the NetApp evangelist for AI in Germany and beyond

**What you will bring**:
- Demonstrable curiosity for technology and deep expertise in AI and GenAI data storage
- Outstanding communication skills with a track record of technology evangelism
- Strong history of AI solution design and proposal
- Self-motivated business developer

Fluent German and English are essential - other languages are a bonus

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that 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 laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.

**Why NetApp?**

In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist. No one knows how to elevate the world's biggest clouds like NetApp. We are data-driven and empowered to innovate. Trust, integrity, and teamwork all combine to make a difference for our customers, partners, and communities.

We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.

**Our values**:
Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

**Benefits**:
**Volunteer time off**:

- 40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

**Well-being**:

- Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

**Time away**:

- Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.