Senior Sales Engineer (f/m/d)

<h2>About The Opportunity</h2> <p>Our Solution/Sales Engineers (f/m/d) are close partners of our sales team and own key components of the sales process, including infrastructural/architectural discovery, collaborative solution design, and technical validation. Solution Engineers may travel up to 50% of the time and will have the opportunity to work with teams worldwide, from visionary brands to innovative digital agencies.</p> <h2>What To Expect?&nbsp;</h2> <ul> <li>Work directly with our Account Executives to support EMEA customers</li> <li>Support our sales team in helping prospects understand what’s possible with Contentful and how it compares to older legacy technologies</li> <li>Understand prospects' project requirements, help prospects validate these requirements against our platform, identify and mitigate technical and business risks</li> <li>Create product demonstrations and assist with technical evaluations to demonstrate how our platform solves identified business problems and integrates into a prospect’s technology stack</li> <li>Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management, marketing, and sales.</li> <li>Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure that newly-signed customers successfully implement and launch their projects with Contentful</li> </ul> <h2>What You Need To Be Successful</h2> <ul> <li>Fluency in English - any other European languages would be preferred&nbsp;</li> <li>The desire to work in a fast-paced environment, across multiple opportunities and teams</li> <li>3-5 years experience as a Sales/Solution Engineer/Architect or Solution Consultant for a cloud-based, growth-oriented PaaS or SaaS company; or 5-10 years experience as a developer working on digital experience delivery utilising marketing technology platforms focused on CMS, Commerce, Personalisation, etc.</li> <li>Strong presentation skills that demonstrate the ability to clearly and sympathetically convey business and technical knowledge to our varying personas that are both marketing-focused and technical-focused.</li> <li>Proven experience with current web technologies (JavaScript frameworks, static site generators, REST APIs, CDNs, CI/CD, etc.)</li> <li>A high degree of emotional intelligence to help navigate meetings with multiple customer stakeholders with varying degrees of engagement and influence.</li> <li>A natural curiosity for how technology drives change and how that transfers into business value.</li> </ul> <h4>Nice To Have</h4> <ul> <li>Experience working with a Content Management Platform or similar technology (MarTech).</li> <li>Prior experience with solution selling methodologies and/or value-based sellin