Enterprise Core Sales Engineer - Southeast

About the role:

As an Enterprise Sales Engineer at Samsara you’ll be splitting your time across two major focus areas; (1) supporting senior-level sellers in an attempt to grow existing customers or win new customers and (2) contributing to the SE Team as a senior resource. There is an expectation that an Enterprise SE is highly accountable for each technical sale meaning that strong storytelling objection handling custom workarounds advanced integrations and extensive hands-on experience are requirements to win most deals. Takeaways from these activities should be shared across the SE Team via team meetings messaging tools etc.

Additionally an Enterprise Sales Engineer is accountable for carving out time to source and deliver product information conduct testing of alpha products/features manage projects and build process improvements and automation that will scale the broader SE Team. An Enterprise Sales Engineer will still carry a quota so a successful Enterprise Sales Engineer will possess excellent time management skills and will maintain a clear focus on retiring quota in addition to these other senior responsibilities.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the Southeast region of the United States except for San Francisco Bay Metros New York City Metro and Washington DC Metro . This position requires travel up to 50% of the time and proximity to an international airport is preferred.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
• You have innate curiosity in how businesses work: One day you’ll meet with someone in waste management and the next you may be learning about the inner workings of a food distribution center. Our top sales team members seek to learn the ins and outs of the businesses they support in order to make a larger impact.
• You build genuine relationships with your customers: The industries we serve have relied on pen-and-paper solutions for years and haven’t been met with the type of technology we offer. Our customers value earned trust and human relationships built over time.
• You want to be with the best: Samsara’s high-performance culture means you’ll be surrounded by the best and challenged to go farther than you have before.
• You are a team player: At Samsara sales is a team sport. We help each other out by sharing best practices and focus on winning as a team.

In this role you will: 

• Conduct product demonstrations and facilitate live proof-of-concept trials for prospective customers and ensure these prospects understand - and are fully utilizing - the Samsara platform.
• Work closely with Product Management and other relevant teams to help develop the Samsara platform.
• Demonstrate the value proposition of Samsara’s products and services along with the platform's core capabilities on-site remotely via webinar sessions or at field events such as conferences and trade shows.
• Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs.
• Have the ability to be organized and analytical and eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.
• Demonstrate comfort working for a dynamic technical organization with a fast-growing partner and customer base.
• Remain highly available to Sales and cross-functional teams making a measurable impact on Sales and product development in your region and contributing to SE Team enablement.
• Be a dynamic contributor on both Sales and SE Team internal communications channels.
• Champion role model and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Bachelor’s of Science degree from a 4-year accredited university
• 5+ years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales technical role customer success or customer/product support capacity (Sales Engineer Systems Engineer Solutions Engineer etc.)
• Ability to influence stakeholders based on your technical sales acumen and a solid understanding of business processes and change management
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Previous experience managing hardware and/or software product evaluations
• Basic understanding of electronics and electrical systems
• Experience with the following concepts: technical consulting cloud software cloud-connected hardware computer networking business systems integration automation and control systems
• Working knowledge of various integration standards and transports (XML REST SOAP EDI etc.)
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs between SaaS applications
• Exposure to various SaaS-based integrations
• Must be located within and authorized to work in the United States

An ideal candidate also has:

• Bachelor’s of Science degree or advanced education in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering or related discipline
• Work experience in task automation scripting and transferring data between systems using Bash Python JavaScript or equivalent languageWork experience building solutions leveraging open API’s
• Understanding of vehicle diagnostic systems including Controller Area Networks (CAN bus) and Power Take Off (PTO) applications
• Hobbyist interest in working with things driven by electronic systems (car audio installation/classic car restoration home automation building things with raspberry pi arduino etc.)
• Consistent track record of success selling complex technical solutions through strategic sales cycles

What We Do

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform which is an open platform that connects the people devices and systems of some of the world’s most complex operations allowing them to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. With tens of thousands of customers across North America and Europe Samsara is a proud technology partner to the people who keep our global economy running including the world’s leading organizations across industries in transportation construction wholesale and retail trade field services logistics manufacturing utilities and energy government healthcare and education food and beverage and others. The company's mission is to increase the safety efficiency and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy.

Why Work With Us

Do the most meaningful work of your career—saving lives keeping communities running and transforming the industries that power the global economy. At Samsara we build AI-powered technology for the people who keep the world running—making essential work safer smarter and more sustainable.

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