Sales Engineer

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We are seeking a highly technical, entrepreneurial Sales Engineer who will report directly to the Senior Director of Solutions Architecture. The ideal candidate has a proven track record for working on complex deals with a technical product, ideally in the eCommerce or data platform space. They are coachable, curious, intelligent, customer-centric, and have a strong work ethic.

The Sales Engineer will be an early member of our Sales team and will be expected to help collaborate with the team and contribute individually as we build out new systems/processes and optimize existing ones.

This position is an outside sales role and involves travel (about 25%) and onsite meetings (post-COVID).

Responsibilities Include:

  • Partner with Account Executives to close deals, operating as the technical lead on the sales team
  • Help identify prospect’s technical requirements and validate if/why Nacelle is best technical fit for the prospect
  • Manage the POC process with prospects to successful completion
  • Contribute field knowledge and feedback to direct future product requirements/enhancements
  • Help transition closed/won deals to our CS organization
  • Maintain clean and thorough opportunity notes and forecast in Salesforce
  • Create and deliver customized product demonstrations for prospects and customers

Skills & Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of experience as a Sales/Solutions Engineer at a venture-backed SaaS company
  • Experience selling to CTOs or other technical personas
  • Experience managing technical POC processes with engineering evaluators
  • Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience using Salesforce
  • Familiarity with integrations between systems and how software services work with another
  • Experience with client-side development (PWA frameworks specifically), Javascript, CMS
  • Demonstrated repeatable success in previous roles

Nice to Have:

  • Experience selling eCommerce and/or data SaaS solutions
  • Series A to Series B stage startup experience
  • Experience with custom eCommerce builds and integrations
  • Experience with event driven architectures

Benefits & Perks:

  • Competitive compensation packages
  • Stock options
  • Robust benefits packages which include medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, as well as employer-paid life insurance, and short/long-term disability
  • 401(k) with an employer match
  • Unlimited Mental Health Teledoc appointments
  • Paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO in addition to paid holidays and sick days
  • Monthly wifi stipend
  • Home office setup budget
  • Annual Learning and Development stipend
  • 100% Remote culture with a minimum of one company in-person retreat per year + team-specific retreats
  • Company provided Macbook
  • An environment that values and promotes continuous learning, true ownership, and teamwork

Authorization to work in either the U.S. or Canada is a precondition of employment at Nacelle. We unfortunately are not able to provide employment sponsorship at this time.

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