What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Presales Engineer position at Whispir?
About Us:
It’s our mission to build a world that communicates more humanly. Since 2001, we’ve been delivering innovative and powerful communication solutions. Today, we’re a communication intelligence company applying powerful machine intelligence and carefully developed algorithms to deliver effective human engagement at scale even when we are not face to face — all guided by our values of Listening, Respect, Innovation, and Passion.
Our customers use Whispir to communicate across multiple channels from SMS to email, to dynamic landing pages, voice and more – all easily configured to meet their specific needs. All of our customers benefit from our low code – no code platform and powerful APIs. Our promise is to deliver a platform capable of achieving the world’s highest engagement rates.
About the Position:
Solution Architects play a key supporting role in Whispir's Sales organization and are critical to the deal success. You are the Technical interface for the customer, as an integrated part of the sales team with deep product and related technology expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner and support the sales team to identify high value use cases and develop customer centric solutions & roadmaps, articulating Whispir’s value and technical capability.
- Lead technical workshops to assist customers to define their business needs and to map Whispir’s capabilities back to their requirements.
- Showcase the Whispir platform by delivering high quality presentations, demos, PoCs and other technical activities that differentiate our technology in ways that are relevant to our customers.
- Work closely with channel partner technical teams to design solutions that utilise Whispir technology.
- Partner with clients developing long term relationships and help develop their technical strategy and roadmap for their communications platform needs
About You:
Basic Qualifications
- Pre-Sales experience selling SaaS, SW or other technical products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Hands-on, high energy, passionate problem solver
- Proven track record in high growth modern technology organizations - execution to a sales process, exceeding revenue targets, growing customer base.
- Flexible, fast learner, autonomous and well-organized.
- Previous experience with software development, software integration
- Knowledge of Web development (Javascript, HTML/CSS, frontend frameworks: React, Angular, Node)
- Experience with REST APIs
Preferred Experience
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) and cloud architecture
- Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
- Previous experience in Telecom, Contact Center, CPaas, PaaS, IaaS a plus
- MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred
Why We Think You Will Love Working at Whispir:
- Totally flexible working hours because you know how to get the most out of your day
- Birthday paid leave
- Volunteer and engage with community paid leave
- 3 Additional Whispir Wellness days paid leave
- Ongoing monthly WFH allowance
- Women of Whispir program to connect senior female leaders with women across the company to promote connection, networking and mentoring opportunities
Whispir is an endorsed employer for all women; check out our benefits directly at WORK180: Whispir Benefits | WORK180 Endorsed Employer
We still want to hear from you, even if you don’t meet all of the above requirements. If you’re ready to change the way our world communicates, Apply Now!