Lead Sales Engineer Enterprise - French Speaking

Fivetran, Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a French-speaking Lead Sales Engineer to join their Enterprise sales team in London. The role involves providing technical expertise to understand complex business needs and demonstrate how the company's solutions drive desired outcomes. This full-time position includes a blend of remote work and in-office collaboration, with significant opportunities for professional development and a commitment to diversity.

Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous paid time-off policy

Professional development opportunities

Company virtual happy hours and team-building activities

Monthly cell phone stipend

Innovative mental health support platform

Qualifications

• 5+ years in sales engineering or data replication.
• Native/Professional French proficiency is required.
• Strong technical background in data replication technologies.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer business and data replication needs.
• Deliver technical presentations to Enterprise customers.
• Run organized proof-of-value processes.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Technical certifications related to data replication

Tools

DBT

ETL tools

Job description

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We’re looking for a talented French speaking Lead Sales Engineer to join our Enterprise sales team. As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will work closely with our sales team to understand our Enterprise customers’ complex business needs and showcase how Fivetran’s data replication solutions can help them achieve their desired business outcomes. You will be responsible for providing technical expertise, identifying technical requirements, and ensuring a successful proof-of value throughout the sales cycle

This is a full time position based in Dublin, Paris or London. Ourhybridwork model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team

Technologies You’ll Use

What You’ll Do

• Work with Enterprise customers to understand their business, their use cases, and their data replication requirements
• Develop and deliver technical presentations to Enterprise audiences
• Ensure the technical win by running an organized proof-of-value process
• Work closely with multiple cross-fuctional organizations driving change and improvements to Fivetran as a whole.
• Work closely with multiple Sales representatives, while maintaining a high level of customer focus and technical excellence
• Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and trends in our industry
• Assist team members in advanced technical or business roadblocks
• Native/Professional Proficiency in French
• 5+ years in data replication, sales engineering, or related technical field
• Strong technical background covering database replication, cloud infrastructure, and data replication technologies with some form of hands on experience
• Experience with modern data analytics technologies, including cloud data warehouses, transformation tooling, data catalogs, and BI tools
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with a keen ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, and NoSQL databases
• Hands on experience with other data replication or ETL tools
• Experience with self-hosted software applications and supporting infrastructure
• Hands on networking experience both in the cloud and on-premise

Bonus Skills

• Specialized expertise in security posture
• Experience with self-hosted and SaaS software applications
• Hands on experience with DBT

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Perks and Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form . We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.

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