Senior Sales Engineer
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Contentful exists to help our customers deliver compelling customer experiences with content at the heart of the conversation. As a Senior Sales Engineer you will play a critical role in helping our customers and prospects understand the role of content in a modern composable digital landscape.
Our Senior Sales Engineers come from a whole host of backgrounds: marketing professionals sales engineers with experience selling to marketing audiences as well as individuals with agency and professional services backgrounds. We rely heavily on our core values to identify the right talent at Contentful as the role of a Senior Sales Engineer is dynamic and multidimensional.
Imagine yourself as a copilot on sales opportunities. You will work with your Account Executives in lockstep through key phases of the sales cycle including technical discovery product presentations collaborative solution design sessions interactive trials proofs of concept and more. You will build relationships with customer stakeholders to understand their needs and become a trusted advisor to help them navigate the evershifting landscape of digital marketing technology and trends.
This is a dynamic role and would allow you to be part of a growth company where you can make an impact on sales results help drive and influence the direction of the Sales Engineering function work within a positive culture and continue to grow and expand your career.
- Dive into an immersive onboarding experience that will help you learn the Contentful value propositions personas products MACH and composable solutions partner ecosystem and more.
- Become proficient in the Contentful Demo presentation framework.
- Learn the Content Management competitive landscape both current and legacy platforms and complimentary stack solutions.
- Create deep relationships across the business: sales marketing product partnerships and others..
- Make an impact on sales revenue by copiloting sales opportunities along with your Account Executives.
- Seek to understand customers shortterm and longterm digital objectives and how Contentful enables their vision both as the driving force of their stack or as a good neighbor to their other platforms.
- Validate and illustrate how Contentful can help the customer with their digital transformation efforts through customized valuebased product demonstrations and proof of concepts.
- Assist with the completion of RFIs RFPs and Security questionnaires and liaison with other departments to drive finalization.
- Relay product feedback from customers and implementation partners to Product Management Marketing and Sales.
- Be a thought leader in Sales Engineering and provide mentorship to other Sales Engineers newer in their careers.
- Travel onsite with customers when necessary.
- Work on exciting internal projects that impact how the Sales Engineering team works and grows.
- Strong leadership and a safe environment to be you and grow your career.
Required
- A Bachelors and/or Masters degree in a comparable field or equivalent experience
- Excellent English communication skills both verbal and written
- Willingness to travel (up to 50
- The desire to work in a fastpaced environment across multiple opportunities and teams
- 35 years of sales engineering experience selling cloud solutions to Marketing IT and Development Audiences.
- An individual who understands the Digital Marketing function the KPIs used to measure success within Marketing and how content powers a Marketing strategy.
- Strong presentation skills that demonstrate the ability to clearly and empathetically convey business and technical experience to our varying personas that are both marketingfocused and technicalfocused.
- A high degree of emotional intelligence to help navigate meetings with multiple customer stakeholders with varying degrees of engagement and influence.
- Intellectual curiosity for how technology drives change and how that transfers into business value.
Desirable
- 13 years designing and delivering digital experiences and/or frontend development (with React node NextJS etc.
- Experience working with a Content Management Platform or similar technology (MarTech).
- Prior experience with solution selling methodologies and/or valuebased selling techniques.
- Understanding the core concepts of MACH products and Composable architectures and how they relate to Contentfuls product and market position.
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Fulltime employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100 of monthly health premiums for employees and 85 of costs for your dependents.
- Fertility and family building benefits including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value WorkLife balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off including vacation days sick days compassion days for loss education days and volunteer days
- Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and inperson events including workshops guest speakers and fun team activities supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical financial or emotional health
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business.
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Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities Contentful enables dynamic personalization automated content delivery and realtime experimentation powering nextgeneration digital experiences across brands regions and channels for more than 4200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful working from hubs in Berlin Denver San Francisco London New York and distributed worldwide.
Everyone is welcome here!Everyone is welcome here is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sexual orientation gender gender identity age physical disability or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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Remote Work :
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Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
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