Account Solution Engineer

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Sales

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Our Sales Organization is made up of the business segments below. Within these business segments, the teams sell across multiple verticals and there are 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, Professional Services, Slack, Mulesoft, Tableau, Specialization Cloud, Enterprise Corporate Sales and .
ORG (Non Profit & Education).

In addition, we have Core Teams that sell the entire Salesforce Platform and our Co Prime teams specialize in a specific cloud solution including but not limited to Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Heroku or Quip. Solution Engineers typically align with the below business units.

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.

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, as outlined above. The Solution Engineer role typically aligns with our Enterprise, Commercial or SMB segments. We are regularly looking for Solution Engineers within these segments on both product & industry teams.

Whether you are at the Associate level or beyond, 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 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 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.
• "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 s