Jobs · Business Development · Minnesota

Senior Systems (Sales) Engineer

Forward · Minnesota, United States · 1 mo ago
Business Development$240k–$275k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical resource for the sales organization working with large enterprise accounts.
  • Work with the sales team as the product advocate and key technical adviser.
  • Drive and manage the technology evaluation stage of the sales process; answer technical questions and communicate business and technical value to all levels of management.
  • Establish and maintain strong relationships throughout the sales cycle to ensure complete customer satisfaction.
  • Establish technical feasibility and perform qualification of the potential technical deployment.
  • Develop and deliver product demos and POCs.
  • Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs.
  • Work with internal product management and engineering teams to convey customer requirements.
  • Represent the product to customers, partners and at field events such as conferences, seminars, etc.

Required Qualifications

  • A strong understanding of networking and security solutions and vendors.
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills with a focus on needs analysis, positioning, business justification, and closing techniques.
  • 5+ years’ experience selling to Enterprise customers for a networking company or relevant software vendor.
  • 2 Years experience with some scripting or programming language; understanding of program flow, conditionals, basic logic handling.
  • Superior presentation skills.
  • Working knowledge of API driven workflows and scripting languages (Python, bash, jq, graphql, etc).
  • Experience working with a startup company.
  • B.S. Computer Science or equivalent educational experience.
  • One or more of the following certificates: CCIE, JNCIE or VCDX.

Pay

The expected On-Target Cash Earning for this role is between $240,000 - $275,000 per year.

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