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DDN
About DDN
DDN (DataDirect Networks) puts its storage behind GPU clusters and supercomputers, and its buyers are AI clouds, research centers, defense agencies, banks and drug makers. Of its 18 sales-titled openings, 8 are presales seats: principal solution architects in Santa Clara and New York (the New York one for financial services), sales engineers in Santa Clara, Sweden, Germany and Tokyo, a pre-sales architect in Bangalore and an AI value engineer in Madrid who builds ROI and TCO cases, and the seat above Europe's SE team, an area vice president of sales engineering for EMEA, is open in London. Only 3 are quota-carrying account executives, each cut by vertical or territory: the US Army from Washington, DC, life sciences and pharma in the Northeast, and North India, where the posting says most deals close through channel partners and travel runs 30 to 40%. A Singapore director works the APAC partner side, about 80% relationships with NVIDIA's regional teams, neoclouds and NVIDIA Cloud Partners, reporting to a worldwide vice president of NCP and AI Native sales. The remaining 5 support the motion: a technical account manager at a Santa Clara colocation site and an AI infrastructure solutions engineer in Madrid on post-sale deployments, two Salesforce builders (Sales Cloud and CPQ) in New York and Madrid, and a New York HR partner for the go-to-market team; 8 of the 18 are in the US.
Typical pay, live
, SalesJobs.Now shows 13 open DDN sales roles; the postings mostly run from $163k to $372k a year, with $275k in the middle.
DDN sales openings
Board read 2 Nov 2026, 12:09 UTCStrategic AI, NeoClouds & NVIDIA Business Development Lead (shows the role here)
Partner sales · Remote - Singapore· 4d agoDetails
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Founding Account Executive (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · AE · San Mateo, CA· 4w agoDetails
$160,000–$200,000/yr
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Founding Customer Success Manager (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · Customer success · New York, NY· 4w agoDetails
$100,000/yr
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VP, Sales Engineering - EMEA (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · London Office· 2w agoDetails
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Founding GTM (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · AE · San Francisco, CA· 4w agoDetails
$140,000–$160,000/yr
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Principal Solution Architect (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Santa Clara Office, United States· 3w agoDetails
$300,000–$330,000/yr OTE
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Founding BDR (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · SDR & BDR · San Francisco, CA· 4w agoDetails
$70,000–$91,000/yr
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Senior Sales Engineer (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Santa Clara Office, United States· 1mo agoDetails
$250,000–$300,000/yr OTEAI Value Engineer (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Madrid Office· 2mo agoDetails
Senior Sales Engineer (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Remote - Sweden· 3mo agoDetails
Senior Solutions Architect - Pre Sales (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Bangalore Office· 3mo agoDetails
Principal Solutions Architect - FSI (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · New York Office· 3mo agoDetails
$129,150–$157,850/yrPre- Sales Engineer (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Tokyo Office· 3mo agoDetails
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DDN as an employer
A storage maker founded in 1998 that cites about 1,000 employees and 11,000 customers, with sales hiring weighted toward presales engineers over quota carriers. Posted pay: $163k–$372k/yr, midpoint $275k/yr.
Hiring now, with pay read from the salaries its own postings state13 sales openings at DDN, as its own board showed them 2 Nov 2026.
The pay lines name commission for the life sciences AE and both principal architects, a bonus for the technical account manager and the Salesforce roles, and equity on every one except the Army AE's; DDN's careers page adds bonus programs, tuition reimbursement and medical, dental and vision cover.
Pay at DDN
From today's postings, 2 Nov 2026Midpoint $275k/yr across 5 openings with posted pay. Posted figures range from $129k/yr to $400k/yr.
Based on 5 distinct posted pay ranges, at this company, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 8 of the 13 openings here list no pay.
| Sales role | Openings | Typical base | Top posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales engineering | 8 | $209k–$324k/yrits roles in the United States | $330k/yr |
| AE | 3 | $150k–$400k/yr2 salaries | $400k/yr |
| Partner sales | 1 | No pay posted | None posted |
| Sales leadership | 1 | No pay posted | None posted |
Best-paid DDN openings on the board
All 13 of its openings, sorted by pay- $350,000–$400,000/yr OTE
Principal Solution Architect (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Santa Clara Office, United States· 3w agoDetails
$300,000–$330,000/yr OTESenior Sales Engineer (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · Santa Clara Office, United States· 1mo agoDetails
$250,000–$300,000/yr OTE- $150,000–$175,000/yr
Principal Solutions Architect - FSI (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · New York Office· 3mo agoDetails
$129,150–$157,850/yr
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Is DDN a good company to sell for?
A storage maker founded in 1998 that cites about 1,000 employees and 11,000 customers, with sales hiring weighted toward presales engineers over quota carriers.
Is DDN still an active employer?
Yes. A storage maker founded in 1998 that cites about 1,000 employees and 11,000 customers, with sales hiring weighted toward presales engineers over quota carriers. How its pay is structured: The pay lines name commission for the life sciences AE and both principal architects, a bonus for the technical account manager and the Salesforce roles, and equity on every one except the Army AE's; DDN's careers page adds bonus programs, tuition reimbursement and medical, dental and vision cover.
What does a sales job at DDN pay?
On DDN's board today, the 5 openings in the United States that post pay put the typical band at $163k–$372k/yr and the midpoint at $275k/yr. Posted figures range from $129k/yr up to $400k/yr.
Is selling for DDN worth it?
Posted pay at DDN: $163k–$372k/yr, midpoint $275k/yr. Selling AI and data products suits reps who can hold a technical buyer's attention through a proof of concept.
How is DDN's sales comp put together?
The pay lines name commission for the life sciences AE and both principal architects, a bonus for the technical account manager and the Salesforce roles, and equity on every one except the Army AE's; DDN's careers page adds bonus programs, tuition reimbursement and medical, dental and vision cover.
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