Senior Solution Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Solution Engineer to partner with our sales team, providing technical expertise and strategic guidance to SMB and mid-market customers. In this role, you will manage pre-sales activities, conduct discovery calls, deliver compelling product demonstrations, gather requirements, and create technical documentation to drive product revenue goals. Strong pre-sales experience, excellent communication, and a deep understanding of technology solutions are essential.

About the Company

Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs and complexities of solutions that promise to simplify their lives. To create a better experience for their customers and employees. To help them grow. Software is a choice that can make or break a business. Create better or worse experiences. Propel or throttle growth. Business software has become a blocker instead of ways to get work done.

There's another option. Freshworks. With a fresh vision for how the world works.

At Freshworks, we build uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences. Our enterprise-grade solutions are powerful, yet easy to use, and quick to deliver results. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, making employees more effective and organizations more productive. Over 72,000 companies, including Bridgestone, New Balance, Nucor, S&P Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) software to fuel customer loyalty and service efficiency. And, over 4,500 Freshworks employees make this possible, all around the world.

Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all activities of the pre-sales resources within a particular region.
• As a business partner with sales management, manage the organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and alignment of all technical resources with product revenue goals.
• Provide advice and counsel to sales management in the effective use and deployment of technical resources.
• Maintain close alignment with sales, support and implementation functions.
• Ensure compliance of pre-sales documentation. Internally qualify sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements, competition.
• Work closely with our SMB and mid-market customers to identify and solve their most critical business problems.
• Support the sales team by conducting discovery calls and product demonstrations for our active deals. User requirement gathering, analysis, and scope definition, Wireframing, Creating Proof of Concept (POC), RFP, RFI responses.
• Conduct effective requirements gathering to clearly identify customer problems.
• Build and deliver compelling technical demonstrations of the Freshworks products.
• Articulate the value of Freshworks solutions to a variety of audiences.
• Be a lifelong learner and develop your skills continuously.
• Evangelize a refreshing user experience on the Freshworks platform.

Requirements

• 4 - 7 years in Solution Engineering or in any technical role is a plus.
• Significant experience in technology sales with a demonstrated aptitude for technology at the business and technical level.
• Demonstrated operations and organizational skills implementing and driving best practices in multi-office, cross-functional organizations.
• Extensive expertise supporting mid-market customers and creating service/support strategies.
• Strong organisational and analytical skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, with a proven record of successfully building collaboration around important initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Successful track record of working and influencing matrixes organizations.
• Flexible to work in any shift.