Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. In this role, you’ll be the primary point of contact for the technical/solutions portion(s) of an enterprise, B2B sales cycle, supporting account executives and collaborating with various teams to demonstrate how Smarsh’s products can solve customer problems.
Responsibilities:
- Assist sales with discovery process to identify quantifiable problems our solutions can solve
- Demonstrate/Workshop/Solution how our products/platform can help our prospects/customers achieve their desired business outcomes
- Provide deep technical expertise in the sales process, thereby identifying and influencing requirements early in the process
- Have a deep technical understanding of Smarsh’s products and 3rd party integration; conduct technical presentations
- Influence and capture the prospect’s technical requirements, own the architecture blueprint and re-validate with the prospect
- Provide technical leadership during complex, enterprise-level Proofs of Concept engagements to meet the technical success criteria in a positive and professional manner that exceeds expectations and sets Smarsh apart from competitors
- Take the lead on the technical responses associated with an RFI/RFP/RFQ etc
- Prepare internal solution design proposals for complex deployments. Work with all departments to prepare for large and complex implementations, including knowledge transfer, integration design, and product gap analysis
- Keep informed on industry news and trends, products, services, competitors, relevant information about legacy, existing, and emerging technologies, and the latest product-line developments
- Regularly update systems of record (salesforce, SharePoint etc.) with presales notes/collateral etc
- Contribute best practices and content/collateral to broader presales and sales teams
- Travel as needed for internal/external meetings – Roughly 30 / 40%
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Business or equivalent experience
- Experience in enterprise architecture, IT consulting, sales engineering or software engineering in an enterprise environment
- Professional demeanor with strong work ethic; self-starter; confident; creative and innovative with a passion for delivering technical benefits to sales prospects
- Understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning or Data Visualization
- Strong personal skills, able to build solid relationships with prospect's senior business and technical teams
- Works collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with Smarsh's product management, engineering and customer success teams, soliciting input when/as required
- Superb verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to gather, document and present the value of our solutions
- Adapt at overcoming prospect concerns and ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes from complex technology integration. Demonstrates credibility with prospects' stakeholders on business and technical solution proposals
- Organization, prioritization and planning essential to concurrently deliver multiple projects
- Subject matter expert in the fields of Surveillance/Supervision, eDiscovery, Archiving, and/or unstructured data platforms is a plus
- Industry knowledge (Financial Services and other highly regulated industries)
- Solution Selling, Demo2Win, and MEDDIC/MEDDPICC experience