Senior Solution Engineer DACH (f/m/d)

About the Opportunity

Our Solution Engineers are close partners of our sales team and own key components of the sales process including infrastructural/architectural discovery, collaborative solution design, and technical validation. Solution Engineers may travel up to 50% of the time and will have the opportunity to work with teams around the world, from visionary brands to innovative digital agencies.

What to expect?

Work directly with Enterprise Account Executives to support DACH customers

Support our sales team in helping prospects understand what’s possible with Contentful and how it compares to older legacy technologies

Understand prospects' project requirements, help them validate these requirements against our platform, identify and mitigate technical and business risks

Create product demonstrations and assist with technical evaluations to demonstrate how our platform solves identified business problems and integrates into a prospect’s technology stack

Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management, marketing, and sales

Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure that newly-signed customers successfully implement and launch their projects with Contentful

What you need to be successful

Native German speaker, or with German as a primary second language (e.g. someone who is a native English/French/Spanish/etc speaker but uses German in everyday work life and is fluent in written and spoken communications). Parts of the interview process will be conducted in German

Fluent in written and spoken English

The desire to work in a fast-paced environment, across multiple opportunities and teams

5-10 years experience as a Sales/Solution Engineer/Architect or Solution Consultant for a cloud-based, growth-oriented PaaS or SaaS company; or 5-10 years experience as a developer working on digital experience delivery utilising marketing technology platforms focused on CMS, Commerce, Personalisa