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We're seeking an experienced Sr. Sales Engineer to support our Sales Team. The Sr. Sales Engineer will have a deep understanding of our new offerings and product roadmaps. You will work hand-in-hand with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, willing to travel to client's offices, identify key customer technical objections, and help develop strategies to resolve technical impediments. We’re a profitable and fast growing organization looking for talented, self-directed individuals who combine technical know-how with excellent interpersonal skills. Your role may include performing information security related activities. You must ensure the protection of company and customer assets within your area of responsibilities, and escalating critical asset threats to management.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as an expert on the product for both external and internal sales questions
• Support Sales on prospect technical calls
• Develop and provide technical collateral in support of Sales
• Develop and provide technical product training for the Sales Team
• Work with Customer Success Sales Representative, Enterprise teams to confirm we can deliver on proposals

What you need to have:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to deliver a technical pitch
• At least 6 years of experience in architecting or designing software solutions for customers
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with multiple technological environments
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, oral and presentation skills with the ability to discuss highly technical concepts to all audiences
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience serving as a technical sales or solutions engineer in a customer-facing role
• Technical writing experience
• Familiarity with our stack: Windows 2016 Server+, IIS, Elasticsearch, Redis

What we value:

• Servant Leadership: The best managers lead by empowering and inspiring their team to do their best work.
• Collaboration: The best products are created when people from different backgrounds and disciplines work closely together in an environment of respect and trust.
• Transparency: Trust is built on openness and transparency. If there is not a good reason to keep it a secret, we share it. 
• Inclusion: We do our best work when we can be our whole selves at work. We’re committed to policies and benefits that support people, and managers who foster an open and inclusive culture.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive base salary
• 20 days paid vacation
• Flexible hours
• Stock options
• Completely free health insurance (no copay, no premiums)
• Great office w/ espresso bar, games, and free daily lunches
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Transportation reimbursement

Diverse teams build better products.

Legally, we need you to know this:

Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity.

But we want to add this:

We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.