Solution Engineers

• Work directly with our Account Executives to support EMEA customers
• Support our 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 our platform, identify and mitigate technical and business risks
• 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
• 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

• Fluency in English - any other European languages would be preferred
• 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 our 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., * 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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