Senior Sales Engineer (fmd)

Our Solution/Sales Engineers (f/m/d) are close partners of our sales team and own key components of the sales process including infrastructural/architectural discovery collaborative solution design and technical validation. Solution Engineers may travel up to 50% of the time and will have the opportunity to work with teams worldwide from visionary brands to innovative digital agencies.

• Work directly with our Account Executives to support EMEA customers
• Support our sales team in helping prospects understand whats possible with Contentful and how it compares to older legacy technologies
• Understand prospects project requirements help prospects validate these requirements against our platform identify and mitigate technical and business risks
• Create product demonstrations and assist with technical evaluations to demonstrate how our platform solves identified business problems and integrates into a prospects technology stack
• Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management marketing and sales.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure that newly-signed customers successfully implement and launch their projects with Contentful

• Fluency in English - any other European languages would be preferred
• The desire to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple opportunities and teams
• 3-5 years experience as a Sales/Solution Engineer/Architect or Solution Consultant for a cloud-based growth-oriented PaaS or SaaS company; or 5-10 years experience as a developer working on digital experience delivery utilising marketing technology platforms focused on CMS Commerce Personalisation etc.
• Strong presentation skills that demonstrate the ability to clearly and sympathetically convey business and technical knowledge to our varying personas that are both marketing-focused and technical-focused.
• Proven experience with current web technologies (JavaScript frameworks static site generators REST APIs CDNs CI/CD etc.)
• A high degree of emotional intelligence to help navigate meetings with multiple customer stakeholders with varying degrees of engagement and influence.
• A natural curiosity for how technology drives change and how that transfers into business value.

• Experience working with a Content Management Platform or similar technology (MarTech).
• Prior experience with solution selling methodologies and/or value-based selling techniques.
• Understanding the core concepts of MACH products and Composable architectures and how they relate to Contentfuls product and market position.

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