Senior Solution Engineer (f/m/d)

<h2>About The Opportunity</h2> <p>Our Solution Engineers (f/m/d) 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 worldwide, from visionary brands to innovative digital agencies.</p> <h2>What To Expect? </h2> <ul> <li>Work directly with our Account Executives to support EMEA customers</li> <li>Support our sales team in helping prospects understand what’s possible with Contentful and how it compares to older legacy technologies</li> <li>Understand prospects' project requirements, help prospects validate these requirements against our platform, identify and mitigate technical and business risks</li> <li>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</li> <li>Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management, marketing, and sales.</li> <li>Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure that newly-signed customers successfully implement and launch their projects with Contentful</li> </ul> <h2>What You Need To Be Successful</h2> <ul> <li>Fluency in English - any other European languages would be preferred </li> <li>The desire to work in a fast-paced environment, across multiple opportunities and teams</li> <li>3-5 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 tech