Senior Specialist Solution Engineer

Salesforce, Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Specialist Solution Engineer to demonstrate and evangelize PEM and Channel Revenue solutions across complex accounts. You will engage with clients, run discovery, deliver product demos, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive revenue and partner success.

The role emphasizes staying current on product innovations, aligning strategies to technology solutions, and supporting deal cycles end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 4+ years of professional experience in a Solution Engineering space or related roles.
• Deep experience with the Salesforce Platform.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team to solve technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Support deal cycles tied to Partner Ecosystem Management and Channel Revenue Management Solutions.
• Perform Discovery Calls and Product Demonstrations.
• Assist with technical architecture meetings.
• Create assets to scale the Partner Ecosystem Management teams (industry POVs, demo components, recordings, technical POV docs, discovery guides, workshop content).
• Attend events to evangelize solutions (World Tours, Dreamforce) and evangelize internally across AEs and SEs.

Skills

Salesforce Platform

Presentation skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Solution engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or equivalent

Tools

Sales Cloud

Experience Cloud

Marketing Cloud

Job description

As a Specialist Solution Engineer, you will be instrumental in demonstrating and evangelizing two critical solution areas:

Salesforce Partner Ecosystem Management (PEM): The Hub for Partner Success

Our PEM solution provides a unified, scalable platform for businesses to manage their entire partner lifecycle. This comprehensive "partner command center" eliminates fragmented systems and administrative complexity. You'll be selling a solution that helps companies:

• Streamline Partner Onboarding & Engagement: Simplify the entire process from recruitment to ongoing collaboration, ensuring partners are quickly enabled and integrated.
• Boost Partner Productivity: Provide secure, customizable partner portals, automation tools, and integrated access to sales processes (leads, opportunities, quotes, orders) for more efficient partner work.
• Enhance Partner Enablement: Deliver targeted training, marketing content, and essential resources to ensure partners have what they need to succeed.
• Optimize Channel Strategy: Leverage rich insights and analytics to guide partner tiering, incentive programs, and overall business planning, enabling data-driven decisions.
• Facilitate Seamless Collaboration: Foster real-time collaboration between internal teams and partners, ensuring coordinated support and faster deal velocity.

Salesforce Channel Revenue Solutions: Maximizing Channel Profitability

Complementing PEM, our Channel Revenue Solutions are designed to optimize and automate the complex financial aspects of channel sales, including the powerful Revenue Cloud and specialized Channel Revenue Management capabilities. You'll be helping clients:

• Automate Product-to-Cash Processes: Enable end-to-end revenue generation and management on a single, trusted platform, supporting both one-time sales and subscription services.
• Simplify Pricing & Quoting: Streamline product catalog management, define consistent pricing models, and empower sales reps (both direct and and partner) to configure complex products and generate accurate quotes with ease.
• Optimize Rebate and Incentive Programs: Gain total control over program setup, track and enforce all types of rebate programs (growth, volume, ship and debit, price protection), and ensure accurate payouts, building partner trust and loyalty.
• Gain Unified Visibility: Bring all channel inventory, rebates, payouts, and transaction data into Salesforce, providing a complete picture of partner activity and financial performance.
• Drive Channel Growth: Motivate partners through automated deal registration, streamlined claim submissions, and transparent insights into new opportunities and payout statuses, directly impacting their bottom line and your client's revenue.

Responsibilities

A Specialist Solution Engineer plays a pivotal role in aligning innovative strategies to technology solutions within complex accounts. This role focuses on partnering with clients and collaborating with internal team members and C-level client contacts to drive consensus on multi-product technology solutions across the various Salesforce product lines. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Support deal cycles specifically tied to Partner Ecosystem Management and Channel Revenue Management Solutions, including:
• Performing Discovery Calls
• Performing Product Demonstrations
• Supporting technical architecture meetings
• Create and develop assets and programming to scale the Partner Ecosystem Management teams and solutions. This can include:
• Industry point-of-views
• Demo components and recordings
• Technical point-of-view documents
• Discovery guides
• Workshop programming
• Attend events to evangelize solutions (Salesforce World Tours, industry events, Dreamforce).
• Internally evangelize the solutions across our Core and Service Cloud Account Executives (AEs) and Solution Engineers (SEs).
• Stay up to date on product innovation to be able to speak to and demonstrate key features and benefits., A dynamic, fast-paced environment with exciting challenges and opportunities to build compelling solutions.
• The chance to interact with the entire customer lifecycle, from discovery to solution implementation.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
• A collaborative and supportive team environment that values innovation and fun.

Are you ready to be a part of an outstanding team that is selling into the world's top organizations and help shape the future of partner and channel management?

Are you a technically-minded, courageous communicator with a startup mentality and a passion for innovation? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can build, scale, and evangelize cutting-edge solutions? Salesforce is heavily investing in two key specialist teams and solutions: HR Service (soon to include ITSM) and Partner Ecosystem Management (an upgraded version of Partner Relationship Management). We've recently established these teams and are excited to continuously develop programming, assets, and foundational elements to drive the growth and success of these product portfolios.,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in a Solution Engineering space or relevant adjacent roles.
• Deep experience and understanding of the Salesforce Platform is required.
• Solid oral, written, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team to solve technical problems in varied environments.
• Strong presentation skills, both virtually and in person.
• Value proposition-minded with strong business acumen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience with Sales Cloud, Experience Cloud, and/or Marketing Cloud.
• Salesforce Admin 201 certification or similar technical certification preferred.
• Previous experience as a solution/sales engineer for a CRM company or similar technology.
• Fluency in English and French, or German.

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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