Lead Solution Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Sales and Customer Success as the ultimate product expert and account team technical advisor.
• Thoroughly understand all aspects of the Gong platform in order to explain and demo the technology to all types of users.
• Be the trusted advisor to both prospects and customers to ensure they get the correct business outcome and value from our Gong technology, including business value quantification.
• Assist prospects and customers with business assessments (POCs, Pilots).
• Craft content to show customers how to leverage Gong for specific use cases.
• Execute the build and delivery of outcome-based demos and solution architecture diagrams for customers that have highly complex use cases.
• Solution complex business and technical requirements and explain them in simple terms.
• Assist with RFPs and questionnaires in the context of sales cycles.
• Help eliminate bottlenecks by working cross-functionally (Sales, Customer Success, Support, Product Management, Engineering) in order to get deals across the line.
• Partner with and support Marketing on demand gen activities (webinars, conferences, events).
• Contribute reusable assets to the Sales Engineering team and the company at-large.
• Collaborate closely with Product Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering to share voice of the customer feedback in order to influence our product roadmap and GTM strategies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of customer facing experience in a solution engineering role (pre-sales) or a combination of solution engineering and other relevant work experience.
• Experience with sales technology: CRMs, cloud architecture, or telephony / web conference systems.
• Experience with data flows, AI & ML concepts, analytics, APIs, webhooks, or JSON is a plus.
• Understanding of security and privacy pertaining to SaaS systems.
• Understanding of key sales personas and workflows (including forecasting and prospecting) within a GTM organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present to both technical and non-technical audiences.