Responsibilities
- Conducts research to prepare for upcoming meetings with prospects to understand their business environment, market, customers, competitors and general business challenges.
- Carries out discovery conversations with customers to understand their needs and requirements for a new solution. Uncovers customer pains, learns about customer’s objectives and potential needs, gathers metrics necessary for pricing and/or value discussions. Listens to the customer to gather information that can be leveraged in upcoming presentations.
- Uses their in-depth knowledge of Talkdesk solutions and capabilities to specify the appropriate solution(s) for customer needs and requirements. The SE is continually learning about Talkdesk solutions to keep up with innovations and new releases of TD software.
- Designs and delivers presentations to customers, on-site & virtual, showing Talkdesk’s capabilities, aligned to the customer’s pains and needs that were uncovered during Discovery.
- Generates simple value statements illustrating the financial value of a Talkdesk solution to customers.
- Assists with scoping SOWs for customer implementations as needed.
- Scopes, executes and manages customer pilots and POCs.
- Respond to functional and technical RFI/RFP requirements and mapping said requirements to the software solution.
- Work closely with product management and engineering teams to ensure that customer feedback is incorporated into product roadmaps.
- Assists with marketing and demand generation events as necessary.
Qualifications
- B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years as a Solutions Engineer in Software, VOIP/Telecommunications, contact centers, premise or cloud selling to Enterprise customers.
- Ability to command the attention in a room by delivering compelling presentations and demonstrations.
- Good problem solving skills, including the ability to meet a business requirement with a technical solution.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, including the ability to lead technical discussions and demonstrations with customers.
- Knowledge of Customer Relationship Management Software, ITSM, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence is a plus.
- Knowledge of UCaaS, CCaaS software is a prompt is a plus.
- Knowledge in web / scripting technologies is a plus
Note: This description focuses on the responsibilities and qualifications of the role. For questions about this posting, contact the Talent team.
EEO notice: Talkdesk is an equal opportunity employer.
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