Manager, PreSales Engineering, AI

NiCE; Nice; Híbrido; EUR 110.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

NiCE Cognigy is seeking a Manager, PreSales Engineering, AI to lead a hands-on Sales Engineering team across Benelux, France, and Nordics. You will drive strategic deal support, market penetration, and thought leadership while staying closely aligned with business priorities.

You’ll lead a team of 5–6 Sales Engineers delivering demos, answering RFPs, and supporting events. Report to the Senior Director, PreSales Engineering, AI and shape growth in these regions.

Formación

• Experience in enterprise software, ideally with contact center or automation technologies.
• Proven leadership: team lead or manager, 1:1s, people development.
• Strong understanding of technology and AI and ability to coach a high-performing team.
• Ability to stay current and share knowledge in a fast-changing field.
• Comfort working under pressure with deadlines and gaps.
• Deep understanding of Conversational AI, GenAI, LLMs, STT and TTS.
• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts such as RAG, MCP and A2A communication.
• Strong selling skills: qualify opportunities, build rapport, demonstrate value.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a hands-on Sales Engineering team across Benelux, France, and Nordics.
• Engage in strategic deal support and market penetration with direct business impact.
• Drive lead generation and build a qualified pipeline in the regions.
• Oversee demos, RFP responses, and events to showcase NiCE Cognigy solutions.
• Mentor the team, provide training, and stay sharp on product capabilities.

Descripción del empleo

At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re ambitious. We’re game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you’re like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you.

So, what's the role all about?

NiCE Cognigy is looking for a Manager, PreSales Engineering, AI to lead our Sales Engineering team across three of our fastest-growing continental European markets: Benelux, France, and Nordics.

This is a hands-on, frontline manager role. You'll stay close to the business - personally engaging in strategic deal support alongside your team - while carrying direct responsibility for market penetration, lead generation, and building thought leadership as we scale in these regions.

You’ll lead a team of 5-6 Sales Engineers who provide technical demos, support discovery calls, answer technical RFPs, and actively support events across Benelux, France, and Nordics, and you’ll report to our Senior Director, PreSales Engineering, AI.

How will you make an impact?

• Act as a hands-on, frontline manager - staying close to the business and personally engaging in strategic deal support alongside your team, rather than managing from a distance.
• Own market penetration for Benelux, France, and Nordics, turning your team's efforts into sustained new-business growth across these emerging regions.
• Drive lead generation initiatives that build qualified pipeline in these markets, working closely with marketing and regional sales.
• Build and scale thought leadership for the team across Benelux, France, and Nordics, positioning Cognigy as a trusted authority as these regions grow.
• Lead the Sales Engineering team, making sure demo pitches and other activities are prioritized correctly.
• Take the presales lead on RFPs, making sure they're delivered on time together with the Bid Manager in region.
• Approach opportunities holistically - bridging technical capabilities with solution requirements and business impact, including customer experience and ROI.
• Support customer success with upsell opportunities by spotting strategic openings.
• Engage with a broad range of customer and partner stakeholders, from hands-on technical contacts to VP level, identifying champions and building relationships.
• Delegate work and prioritize team activities with full autonomy.
• Liaise with regional sales and customer success leaders.
• Stay on top of the competitive landscape, comparing our software with other conversational AI products on the market.
• Facilitate internal training so the team stays sharp and up to date.

Have you got what it takes?

• Experience in enterprise software, ideally with contact center or automation technologies - whether at a software company or building custom solutions.
• Proven “team lead” or manager experience: leading a team, running regular 1:1s, and genuinely understanding what your people need.
• The ability to coach individuals and build a high-performing team, backed by a solid foundational understanding of technology and AI.
• A drive to stay current and share knowledge across the team in a fast-changing environment.
• Comfort dealing with pressure - tight presentation deadlines, unexpected team gaps, and everything in between.
• Deep understanding of Conversational AI technologies, including GenAI, LLMs, speech-to-text (STT), and text-to-speech (TTS) solutions.
• Familiarity with agentic AI concepts such as RAG, MCP and A2A communication.
• Strong selling skills - qualifying opportunities, building rapport, and demonstrating NiCE Cognigy's value with confidence.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and lead a team successfully, including full people-management responsibilities.
• A curious, adaptable mindset - you stay on top of the latest trends in conversational AI and love learning new things.

What’s in it for you?

Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams - comprised of the best of the best - work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NICEr!

About Cognigy

NiCE Cognigy delivers AI that works - fast, human, and enterprise-ready. As the leading AI-first CX platform built for real-world scale, we combine Generative and Conversational AI through orchestration, tools, and enterprise systems to power Agentic AI. Backed by global CX leader NiCE, we empower brands with AI Agents that redefine customer experiences and achieve measurable ROI- instantly, across every channel and in 100+ languages.

Requisition ID: 11724

Reporting into: Senior Director, Presales, AI

Job type: Manager

About NiCE

NICELtd. (NASDAQ: NICE)software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences,fight financial crimeand ensure public safety.Every day, NiCE software managesmore than120 million customer interactions and monitors3+billion financial transactions.

Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.

NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.