Enterprise Core Sales Engineer
Job Summary
The Enterprise Core Sales Engineer supports senior-level sellers in winning new business and growing existing customer relationships. This role acts as a senior technical resource, focusing on storytelling, advanced integrations, and hands-on demonstrations to solve complex customer challenges. Successful candidates will manage technical sales cycles, participate in product testing, and contribute to internal SE team enablement.
Responsibilities
- Support sales teams in customer acquisition and growth
- Conduct technical demonstrations and proof-of-concepts
- Manage RFI/RFP responses
- Drive internal product feedback and automation
- Collaborate with Product Management on platform development
Required Skills
- 5+ years in Pre-sales/Technical Engineering
- Experience with REST APIs and integration standards
- Technical knowledge of electronics/cloud systems
- Strong communication and storytelling skills
- Analytical and problem-solving mindset
Job Details
As a Public Sector Enterprise Core Sales Engineer at Samsara, you’ll be splitting your time across two major focus areas; (1) supporting senior-level sellers in an attempt to grow existing customers, or win new customers, and (2) contributing to the SE Team as a senior resource. There is an expectation that an Enterprise SE is highly accountable for each technical sale, meaning that strong storytelling, objection handling, custom workarounds, advanced integrations, and extensive hands-on experience are requirements to win most deals. Takeaways from these activities should be shared across the SE Team via team meetings, messaging tools, etc. Additionally, an Enterprise Core Sales Engineer is accountable for carving out time to source and deliver product information, conduct testing of alpha products/features, manage projects, and build process improvements and automation that will scale the broader SE Team. A successful Enterprise Core Sales Engineer will possess excellent time management skills and will maintain a clear focus on retiring quota in addition to these other senior responsibilities.
In this role, you will:
- Conduct product demonstrations and facilitate live proof-of-concept trials for prospective customers, and ensure these prospects understand - and are fully utilizing - the Samsara platform.
- Work closely with Product Management, and other relevant teams, to help develop the Samsara platform.
- Demonstrate the value proposition of Samsara’s products and services along with the platform's core capabilities on-site, remotely via webinar sessions, or at field events such as conferences and trade shows.
- Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs.
- Have the ability to be organized and analytical, and eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.
- Demonstrate comfort working for a dynamic technical organization with a fast-growing partner and customer base.
- Remain highly available to Sales and cross-functional teams, making a measurable impact on Sales and product development in your region, and contributing to SE Team enablement.
- Be a dynamic contributor on both Sales and SE Team internal communications channels.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- Bachelor’s of Science degree from a 4-year accredited university
- 5+ years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales technical role, customer success, or customer/product support capacity
- Ability to influence stakeholders based on technical sales acumen and business process understanding
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Previous experience managing hardware and/or software product evaluations
- Basic understanding of electronics and electrical systems
- Experience with technical consulting, cloud software, cloud-connected hardware, networking, and business systems integration
- Working knowledge of integration standards (XML, REST, SOAP, EDI, etc.) and RESTful APIs
- Must be located within and authorized to work in the United States