GTM Technical Solutions Director, Salesforce
Publicis Sapient · Atlanta, GA · 3 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
About the role
You will lead the technical pre-sales function in North America, partnering closely with Business Development, industry sales, and delivery teams to shape compelling, commercially viable solutions for clients. You will lead the end-to-end technical pre-sales process across priority deal types, including scoping, estimation, and solution proposal development.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end technical pre-sales process across priority deal types, including scoping, estimation, and solution proposal development.
- Partner directly with customers to understand business goals, shape solution strategy, and build confidence through engaging, influential interactions.
- Create innovative, practical Salesforce-based solutions that align client needs with delivery capabilities.
- Collaborate with specialist teams to create differentiated solution plays, demos, and reusable accelerators.
- Serve as a trusted technical counterpart to sales, helping improve win rates, reduce cycle time, and protect delivery margins.
- Represent the Salesforce practice as a thought leader with clients, Salesforce counterparts, and the broader ecosystem.
- Contribute to GTM strategy, value propositions, and innovation initiatives across the practice.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in professional services, consulting, or solution architecture.
- Proven track record leading technical scoping and estimation for complex engagements.
- Experience building or operationalizing reusable delivery frameworks.
- Strong commercial acumen with a consultative, client-facing presence.
- Salesforce cloud platform experience related to one or more of the following: Salesforce Platform, Sales & Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Commerce/Marketing cloud, MuleSoft, Data Cloud, AgentForce.
- Customer-facing presales experience in either a presales, solution consulting, or delivery capacity, with the ability to engage clients confidently and influence solution direction.
- Demonstrated capability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving sales environment.
- Strong verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills in both remote and onsite settings, with a dynamic and engaging client presence.
- Prior proven time management & prioritization skills in a dynamic sales environment.
- Strong stakeholder management skills (up to c-suite level) with the ability to influence decisions and build credibility with senior client and internal leaders.
- Collaborate and lead the entire solution cycle through close collaboration with other high performing teams.
- An analytical and curious approach to product development and learning.
- A proactive and effective approach to asking questions to solve problems.
- Consulting or professional services experience implementing or at least configuring a top cloud platform is desirable.
- Cloud platform administrator or technical experience beyond end-user experiences (preferably in Salesforce and/or other key cloud platforms) is desirable.