The database market is massive (the IDC estimates it to be $119B+ by 2025!) and MongoDB is at the head of its disruption. The MongoDB community is transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading modern data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity

We are looking for hardworking technologists to join our Pre-Sales organization to ensure that our growth is grounded and guided by strong technical alignment with our platform and the needs of our customers.

MongoDB Pre-Sales Solution Architects are responsible for guiding our customers and users to craft and build reliable, scalable systems using our data platform. Our team is made up of hardworking software architects, entrepreneurs, and developers who take direct responsibility for customer success, including the design of their software, deployment, and operations. You'll work closely with our sales reps and play a key role in winning deals and driving the business forward. You'll be a trusted advisor to a wide range of users from startups to the world's largest enterprise IT organizations.

If you'd like to learn more about what it's like to be an SA at MongoDB, read about Veronica Tudor, Matt Kalan, and Winston Vargo's experiences on our Life At MongoDB blog.

This role will be based remotely in the NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago or Austin area.

As an ideal candidate, you will have

• 5+ years pre-sales experience; ability to position architecture to partners
• 3+ years of enterprise architecture experience 
• 3+ years software development experience
• Solid understanding and ability to code with two or more modern scripting languages (e.g. Python, Node.js, SQL) and/or popular programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Java, C#)
• Experience with scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• The ability to travel up to 30%
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

You may also have

• Experience selling databases and/or deploying applications with any of the major cloud providers
• Experience with database programming and data models
• A MongoDB Certification

What you do at MongoDB

• Design systems, applications, and infrastructure to help drive software development projects using MongoDB
• Advise customers on architectures, patterns, and strategies for making the best use of MongoDB
• Expertly articulate the business value of MongoDB solutions
• Align to support sales with activities such as technical discovery, demos, proof of value, presentation, sizing, and documentation of technical decision criteria; working across a number of opportunities in parallel
• Translate technical concepts and patterns into business benefits for management and executives
• Act as a liaison, collecting feedback from the field to relay back to the Product Management team
• Help drive demand through participation in both industry-known trade-shows as well account-based marketing events
• Demonstrate resilience and sound judgment in dealing with business challenges
• Proactively seek opportunities to support and mentor other pre-sales team members and share standard methodologies

Particularly with Partners

• Understand the importance of a strong sense of urgency reflected through ability to drive partner demand within the sales territory
  
• Align to drive partner Center of Excellence strategies and create demand for MongoDB solutions
  
• Have a strong understanding of partner business model, value, and needs
  
• Successfully build and maintain effective relationships with technical partners, gaining their trust and influencing their decisions
  
• Demonstrate the ability to anticipate and respond appropriately to partner objections
  
• Seen as a “Trusted Advisor” with technical partner stakeholders and participate in C-level partner conversations
• Align to provide proactive responses to help partners understand the solution and identify positive business outcomes
  
• Drive strategy and implementation of solution architecture for products and services within the partner ecosystem of the region
  
• Can demonstrate technical expertise of general IT and application operations through mentorship of local partner organizations
  
• Create strategies that map specific industry trends to account base within local partner organizations and that map competitive threats within local partner organizations

What you will learn

• The rapidly growing MongoDB product suite, including:
• Core database server
• Atlas (fully managed cloud database service)
• Atlas Data Lake, Atlas Full-Text Search, Realm and Charts
• Other Tools and connectors - Ops/Cloud Manager, Compass, Connector for BI, Connector for Spark
• Market-relevant, complementary technologies e.g. Apache Kafka, Kubernetes
• Modern and popular architecture design patterns, methodologies and concerns e.g. microservices, DevOps, cloud, security

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

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