Principal, Account SE

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Sales

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Description

Our Sales Organization is made up of the business segments below. Within these business segments, the teams sell across multiple verticals. There are also teams that sell specifically into one industry or vertical. Verticals include: Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Goods, Communications Media & Technology, Consumer Business Services, Public Sector and others..

Overview

The Solution Engineer is a role that we often hire at Salesforce. If you are interested in any type of Solution Engineering role, you've come to the right place. We look forward to reviewing your application and finding the right role for you! By applying to the Solution Engineer role, recruiters and hiring managers who support multiple cloud offerings and verticals across the organization will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams. Please note some of these positions may be office-based, office-flexible or remote depending on the team.

Do you want to be part of an outstanding team that is selling into the worlds top organizations? Come join us at the Salesforce Solution Engineering team. Through collaboration with the customer, the Products team, and Professional Services the Solutions Engineers develop thoughtful solutions that help our customers connect with their customers in new ways. This unique perspective creates an opportunity for the SE to interact with the entire customer lifecycle. If you enjoy a fast-paced environment full of exciting challenges and opportunities to build compelling Solutions then the Solution Engineering Team is the department for you. The SE world is a dynamic, constantly evolving environment where expertise in design, business consulting and technology is used every day to drive innovation.

The Solution Engineer must have a strong desire to demonstrate their technical and/or sales skills, including the ability to solicit business requirements, develop a technical sales strategy, configure and successfully demonstrate the solutions that address these requirements and provide business value.

What roles are we looking to fill in Solutions Engineering?

The SE team is organized into several smaller teams based on the products they are selling, or the industry/vertical they are selling into aligning with the sales teams. In addition, we have Core Teams that sell the entire Salesforce Platform while our Co Prime teams specialize in a specific cloud solution including but not limited to Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Heroku, Quip and more. We hire based on skills/experience and are open to hiring at all levels for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

A Solution Engineer plays a pivotal role in aligning innovative strategies to technology solutions within complex accounts. This role focuses on partnering with clients and collaborating with internal team members and C-level client contacts to drive consensus on multi-product technology solutions across the various Salesforce product lines.

Solutions Engineers work on a wide array of assignments including business development, operations and IT strategies, as well as executive level product demonstrations. This person must assume the role of trusted advisor for driving innovative solutions forward while also improving business performance.

Business Problem Solving: Take ambiguous and sophisticated business problems and using research and business assessment capabilities, define the problem, drive innovative ideas, define the opportunity set, and recommend practical next steps.

Innovation Management: Bring focus to a client's decision making process by communicating and evaluating solution options, and driving consensus among key collaborators. In some instances, we help our clients develop new decision frameworks and governance processes that continue to deliver value far beyond a particular engagement.

Connect Experiences: Demonstrate through software demos and rapid prototyping how connected experiences come to life with The Salesforce Solutions. This includes the delivery of executive level software demonstrations, construction of future state customer journey strategies, and developing long term IT roadmaps.

"Solutioning" is fundamental to the SE role. It is important to realize that a component of the responsibilities will include assisting the customer, Account Executive and Professional Services team with the discovery, analysis and ultimately the recommendation of strategic solutions for the customer by delivering transformational pitches based in live product demonstrations to validate. These Solutions will use all of the Salesforce technologies to address the core challenges and objectives that are uniquely identified for each customer.

Discover the customer's business needs, and position the best Salesforce solution to achieve those business objectives

Build and present customized solutions and demonstrations focused on Salesforce products to multiple customer personas showing how Salesforce will accelerate their business strategies and a path to value.

Convey a deep understanding of the customer's architecture as it pertains to Salesforce's solutions

Orchestrate and lead cross-functional solutions guides, and align them to the opportunity strategy

Develop and deliver the story of the customer experience aided by Salesforce technologies

Participate in all appropriate product, sales, and procedural training and certifications to acquire and maintain the knowledge vital to be effective in the position

Ability to travel based on territory alignment and region.

Required Qualifications:

B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or MIS

Knowledge of related applications, relational database and web technology

Solid oral, written, presentation, collaboration and interpersonal communication skills

Ability to work as part of a team to solve technical problems in varied political environments

Minimum of 4 years of professional experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Salesforce Certifications

Previous experience as a solution/sales engineer for a CRM company or similar technology

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Accommodations

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