Enterprise Core Sales Engineer - Midwest

About the role

You will conduct product demonstrations and facilitate live proof-of-concept trials for prospective customers, ensuring they understand and fully utilize the Samsara platform. You will work closely with Product Management and other relevant teams to help develop the Samsara platform. You will demonstrate the value proposition of Samsara’s products and services on-site, remotely, or at field events such as conferences and trade shows. You will respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs. You will have the ability to be organized and analytical, eliminating sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches. You will remain highly available to Sales and cross-functional teams, making a measurable impact on Sales and product development in your region, and contributing to SE Team enablement.

Responsibilities

• Conduct product demonstrations and facilitate live proof-of-concept trials for prospective customers, and ensure these prospects understand and fully utilize the Samsara platform.
• Work closely with Product Management, and other relevant teams, to help develop the Samsara platform.
• Demonstrate the value proposition of Samsara’s products and services on-site, remotely via webinar sessions, or at field events such as conferences and trade shows.
• Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs.
• Have the ability to be organized and analytical, and eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.
• Remain highly available to Sales and cross-functional teams, making a measurable impact on Sales and product development in your region, and contributing to SE Team enablement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s of Science degree from a 4-year accredited university
• 5+ years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales technical role, customer success, or customer/product support capacity (Sales Engineer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Engineer, etc.)
• Ability to influence stakeholders based on your technical sales acumen and a solid understanding of business processes and change management
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Previous experience managing hardware and/or software product evaluations
• Basic understanding of electronics and electrical systems
• Experience with the following concepts: technical consulting, cloud software, cloud-connected hardware, computer networking, business systems integration, automation and control systems
• Working knowledge of various integration standards and transports (XML, REST, SOAP, EDI, etc.)
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs between SaaS applications
• Exposure to various SaaS-based integrations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s of Science degree or advanced education in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline
• Work experience in task automation scripting and transferring data between systems using Bash, Python, JavaScript, or equivalent language
• Understanding of vehicle diagnostic systems, including Controller Area Networks (CAN bus) and Power Take Off (PTO) applications
• Hobbyist interest in working with things driven by electronic systems (car audio installation/classic car restoration, home automation, building things with raspberry pi, arduino, etc.)
• Consistent track record of success selling complex technical solutions through strategic sales cycles