Associate Solutions Engineer, Commercial Sales (Austin, TX)
Who We Are
The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a black box they can't understand. Our Internet and cloud intelligence platform delivers the only collectively powered view of the Internet, cloud and SaaS platforms, helping enterprises and service providers work together to identify problems before it impacts revenue, damages brand reputation, or halts employee efficiency.
In August 2020, Cisco Systems completed the acquisition of ThousandEyes, which now forms the ThousandEyes Business Unit within Cisco’s Network Services Business Group and is a foundational component of Cisco’s growing Observability business.
What You’ll do
We are looking for an outstanding Associate Solutions Engineer to join our team of superheroes in our downtown Austin, TX office location. You will have the opportunity to be the customer interface of an exciting new technology. You will work closely with the commercial sales team in presenting ThousandEyes in prospective business opportunities; be instrumental in working with prospects during trials of ThousandEyes to highlight business value; educate prospects, customers and the sales team on ThousandEyes and how it applies to industry trends and business initiatives; and accelerate ThousandEyes growth through growing market awareness of ThousandEyes and closing business.
Specifically, you will...
· Support the technical sales process
· Assist sales in technical prospecting to help uncover opportunities
· Demonstrate solution to showcase capabilities and use-cases
· Build and maintain a technical and trusted advisor relationship with customers
· Scope and architect solution deployments
· Present to decision makers during trial wrap-up meetings
· Participate as a member of the Solutions Engineering team on weekly calls and quarterly business reviews
· Present technical topics and successful wins
· Share technical challenges and ways to overcome
· Interact with team to ask questions, share experiences, and exchange ideas
· Help establish and improve demonstration material showcasing the solution
· Research technical topics impacting the industry to grow as an industry leader
· Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering
· Provide solution feedback from day-to-day use and customer interaction
· Record solution suggestions and improvements through Customer Success
· Participate and discuss internal and external solution beta programs
· Coordinate with Customer Success in providing post-sales support (e.g., training, deployment, support)
· Encourage and guide customers to utilize Customer Success as an extension of their NOC to help ensure success
Qualifications
· Excellent presentation, communication, and problem-solving skills
· A degree in computer science or equivalent technical degree
· 0-1 years of relevant work experience
· An understanding or a strong desire to learn networking and application protocols
· A passion for problem solving, sales, and customer success
· Experience in any development or scripting languages (Python, Java, Javascript, etc.)
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case-by-case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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