Sales Solutions Engineer (Chicago-based ONLY)
seoClarity · Chicago, IL · 4 days ago
HybridAdvertising$80k–$100k/yrFull-time
About the role
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Individuals MUST be local to Chicago, as relocation assistance is not available.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Account Executives to provide technical and strategic support throughout the full enterprise sales cycle.
- Create and deliver customized, high-impact seoClarity platform demonstrations that connect product capabilities to each prospect’s business needs.
- Translate complex SEO, AEO, AI search, automation, analytics, and platform capabilities into clear, value-driven messaging for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Help prospects understand how seoClarity supports visibility across traditional search, AI-driven answers, enterprise SEO workflows, content performance, reporting, and large-scale search intelligence.
- Provide technical credibility during sales conversations by answering product, workflow, data, integration, reporting, and platform-related questions.
- Collaborate with Sales leadership and Account Executives to shape demo strategy, solution positioning, competitive differentiation, and technical sales messaging.
- Support RFPs, security reviews, vendor questionnaires, procurement requests, and other technical sales documentation needed to move opportunities forward.
- Partner with Product, Client Success, Technical Services, and Marketing to share prospect feedback, surface market trends, identify feature opportunities, and improve sales enablement materials.
- Develop reusable demo assets, talk tracks, objection-handling resources, competitive positioning, and technical sales collateral that strengthen the broader sales process.
- Stay informed on the competitive landscape and clearly communicate seoClarity’s unique differentiators across SEO, AEO, AI search, automation, data, and enterprise scalability.
- Represent seoClarity with professionalism, curiosity, and confidence during prospect meetings, executive presentations, onsite visits, and industry events.
- Continuously improve demo delivery, technical messaging, product knowledge, and understanding of how enterprise brands are adapting to the future of search.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Technology, Communications, Information Systems, or another related field.
- 4+ years of technical pre-sales/post-sales, solutions engineering, sales engineering, solutions consulting, or technical demo experience, ideally within enterprise SaaS, marketing technology, analytics, search, SEO, AI, or data platform environments.
- Strong ability to deliver polished, engaging, and highly tailored software demonstrations to executive, technical, marketing, and cross-functional buying audiences.
- Experience partnering with Account Executives throughout complex B2B sales cycles, including discovery, solution positioning, technical validation, stakeholder alignment, and deal support.
- Strong understanding of digital marketing, search marketing, SEO, AI search, AEO, content performance, web analytics, or enterprise marketing workflows.
- Ability to translate complex technical capabilities, datasets, workflows, and platform functionality into clear business value for prospective customers.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the confidence to lead conversations with technical stakeholders, marketing leaders, procurement teams, security teams, and executive decision-makers.
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to quickly learn new technologies, platform capabilities, integrations, data structures, and customer use cases.
- Comfortable supporting RFPs, security questionnaires, technical assessments, procurement documentation, and other enterprise sales requirements.
- Experience working with large datasets, Excel, analytics platforms, reporting tools, or data-driven business workflows.
- Highly resourceful, proactive, and comfortable building new materials, demo flows, talk tracks, proof points, and resources that improve the sales process.
- Strong curiosity around AI search, generative AI, answer engines, LLMs, automation, enterprise SEO, and the changing ways brands are discovered online.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where priorities, prospect needs, technology, and market expectations continue to evolve.
Qualifications
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
- Must be local to Chicago, as relocation assistance is not available.