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Senior Solution Engineer - France (f/m/d)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · London
Experience
Mid-level · 3+ years
Job description
Solution Engineer supporting the EMEA sales team, particularly for France, by owning technical discovery, solution design and validation for prospects evaluating Contentful. The role partners closely with Account Executives and involves product demonstrations and technical evaluations.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · London
- Languages
- English – fluent, French – fluent
What you'll do
- Work directly with Account Executives to support EMEA customers, particularly in France
- Support the sales team in helping prospects understand what's possible with Contentful and how it compares to older legacy technologies
- Understand prospects' project requirements, help prospects validate these requirements against the platform, identify and mitigate technical and business risks
- Create product demonstrations and assist with technical evaluations to demonstrate how the platform solves identified business problems and integrates into a prospect's technology stack
- Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management, marketing, and sales
- Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure that newly-signed customers successfully implement and launch their projects with Contentful
What we're looking for
- Fluency in English and French is required
- The desire to work in a fast-paced environment, across multiple opportunities and teams
- 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.
- Strong presentation skills that demonstrate the ability to clearly and sympathetically convey business and technical knowledge to varying personas that are both marketing-focused and technical-focused
- Proven experience with current web technologies (JavaScript frameworks, static site generators, REST APIs, CDNs, CI/CD, etc.)
- A high degree of emotional intelligence to help navigate meetings with multiple customer stakeholders with varying degrees of engagement and influence
- A natural curiosity for how technology drives change and how that transfers into business value
Nice to have
- Experience working with a Content Management Platform or similar technology (MarTech)
- Prior experience with solution selling methodologies and/or value-based selling techniques
- Understanding the core concepts of MACH products and Composable architectures and how they relate to Contentful's product and market position
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About Contentful
Key facts
- Contentful is now officially part of Salesforce