Senior Solution Engineer - France (f/m/d)

The role

Solution Engineers partner with sales teams to own infrastructural discovery, solution design, and technical validation. You will support EMEA customers, particularly in France, by creating product demonstrations and validating project requirements against the platform.

What you will do

• Work directly with Account Executives to support EMEA customers, particularly in France
• Support sales team in helping prospects understand the platform and how it compares to legacy technologies
• Understand prospects' project requirements and validate them against the platform
• Identify and mitigate technical and business risks
• Create product demonstrations and assist with technical evaluations
• Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management, marketing, and sales
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure successful implementation

Required qualifications

• Fluency in English and French
• 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 e
• Strong presentation skills to convey business and technical knowledge to marketing-focused and technical-focused personas
• Proven experience with current web technologies (JavaScript frameworks, static site generators, REST APIs, CDNs, CI/CD, etc.)
• A high degree of emotional intelligence
• A natural curiosity for how technology drives change and transfers into business value

Nice to have

• Experience working with a Content Management Platform or similar technology (MarTech)
• Prior experience with solution selling methodologies and/or value-based selling techniques
• Understanding of the core concepts of MACH products and Composable architectures

About the company

Contentful is now officially part of Salesforce.