Lead Sales Engineer - AI-Driven Travel Tech Strategy

Sabre Corporation; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Flexible work options

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

Generous PTO and holidays

Strong retirement planning support

Family-friendly benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Sabre Corporation in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Sales Engineer to direct technical strategy and pre-sales engagement across EMEA, translating complex business needs into scalable architectures while guiding cross-functional teams.

The role demands deep travel-tech experience, exceptional communication, and fluency in English plus another European language. Primary location is Richmond, UK, with optional travel to Poland, Italy, France and Greece.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solution Consulting or Pre-Sales within travel technology or enterprise SaaS.
• Strong expertise with travel technology, enterprise software, APIs, integrations and complex Sabre products and automations.
• Proven success leading solution architecture and driving technical strategy for high-value sales opportunities.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage technical and executive audiences.
• Professional fluency in English and at least one additional European language.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, solution strategy and architecture design for complex enterprise sales pursuits.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer executives and decision-makers across EMEA.
• Partner with Sales, Product and Delivery teams to lead customer workshops, RFP responses and technical presentations.
• Identify technical risks, system dependencies and execution considerations to ensure seamless product implementations.
• Mentor sales engineers, establish sales engineering best practices and foster cross-functional collaboration across teams.
• Use AI-enabled automation and workflow tools to streamline RFP responses, technical documentation and pre-sales discovery.

Skills

Sales engineering

Solution architecture

Pre-sales

Stakeholder management

Tools

APIs

Job description

Sabre Corporation in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Sales Engineer to direct technical strategy and pre-sales engagement across EMEA, translating complex business needs into scalable architectures while guiding cross-functional teams.

The role demands deep travel-tech experience, exceptional communication, and fluency in English plus another European language. Primary location is Richmond, UK, with optional travel to Poland, Italy, France and Greece.