Business Area: Sales EngineeringSeniority Level:Mid-Senior levelJob Description:
At , we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
Solutions Engineers are the technical leaders in the sales account team. We’re a close-knit community and truly enthusiastic about our work, which gives us the opportunity to grow our personal reputation both internally and externally in the data community. We are responsible for securing the technical win in each sales opportunity and for building an ongoing relationship with our customers to ensure their business success with technologies
. As a Solutions Engineer you will:
- Own the technical sales process from introductory meetings (net new sales) through post-sales (customer satisfaction, upselling, and subscription renewals)
- Supporting the technical needs of customers including discovering new use cases for ’s technology
- Designing solutions for your customers’ needs using technologies, based on reference architectures and common patterns
- Demonstrating products in a way that inspires your customers to say “yes” to
- Partnering with your Account Managers to show your customers the true value of a solution and drive successful sales
- Presenting product roadmap and vision to inspire your customers to think bigger
- Interfacing with other teams to ensure your customers hear one voice
- Advocating for your customers’ needs to Product Management and Engineering
- Participating in external publicity and evangelism (conferences, meetups, webinars, blogs)
Achievements are aligned to a team goal with annual sales targets, as well as to your participation in knowledge exchange with peers and the wider community.
We're excited about you if you have:
- A passion for using technology to make a difference to people and organisations. We'll supply some amazing tools to help you with this and you'll provide the connection to use cases, which make it real for your customers
- A minimum of 5 years experience in a customer-facing role, ideally in a pre-sales context
- The ability to create and give technical presentations and demonstrations
- Experience with some of the following technologies:
- Big Data, Data Warehousing or Relational Databases
- One or more of the three major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure or GCP). Formal certification is not required, but would be a great thing to have
- Data Engineering, Data Science or Machine Learning
- Operations, Security and Data Governance within the enterprise
- Unix or Linux
- Experience gathering and understanding customer business requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Problem solving skills
- A willingness to learn, a curiosity to discover and a drive to make your customers successful
What you can expect from us:
- Generous PTO Policy
Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
- Flexible WFH Policy
- Mental & Physical Wellness programs
Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
- Access to Continued Career Development
Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
Paid Volunteer Time
- Employee Resource Groups
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