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DACH Senior Solution Engineer

Contentful · Munich, Germany

Base
Not disclosed
OTE
Not disclosed
Posted
5d ago

Still open · checked 1h agoon Contentful's careers page

The job

What you'd do
Help the sales team in Germany, Austria and Switzerland win over brands and digital agencies by showing how the product fits their projects, with up to half your time spent travelling.
What you'd sell

A place to manage content for websites and apps

When a big brand runs its content across a website, apps, and other channels, developers and marketers have to keep it in sync. The problem is, one change can turn into a long project for the tech team. Contentful gives teams one place to manage content and send it to any website or app, so they change it once and reuse it everywhere.

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Who you'd sell to
Digital agencies and brand marketing and technical teamsIn their words: “teams worldwide, from visionary brands to innovative digital agencies”
Where deals come from
Not stated in the posting.

The Braun Read

Proceed with caution

A few things here deserve a hard look before you spend time on it.

Pay
No pay listed at all.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Time on market
Open 5 days.
Company hiring
Ramping up: posted 9 sales roles in the last 30 days.

Red lights

None spotted.

Yellow lights

  • German required. The posting asks for fluent German. Worth knowing before you apply if you only sell in English.

Green lights

None spotted.

Based only on what the posting says. Lights are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

  1. 1.

    What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?

    OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.

  2. 2.

    What are the base and the OTE for this role?

    No point investing hours before you know the number.

  3. 3.

    What's the annual quota, and how was it set?

    A quota built from real data is a target. Otherwise it's a hope.

  4. 4.

    Where does pipeline come from: inbound, SDRs, or me?

    Tells you how much of your week is prospecting versus selling.

  5. 5.

    How long is ramp, and what's the quota during it?

    Full quota on day one means you start behind.

  6. 6.

    Why is this role open? Did someone leave, or is it new?

    New headcount is growth. A replacement means someone left. Ask why.

› When the offer comes

Save these for later. They land better once they've said yes to you.

  1. 1.

    Can I see the full comp plan in writing, including clawbacks and accelerators?

    What's in writing is what gets paid. Read it before you sign.

  2. 2.

    Can I see the actual comp distribution for the team last year, not just the OTE?

    The spread shows what most reps really take home. OTE is just the target.

  3. 3.

    I'd be walking away from earned commission to join. Is there room for a sign-on bonus to help cover that?

    Leaving money behind is a fair reason to ask. The worst answer is no.

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Full posting
About The Opportunity Our Solution Engineers (f/m/d) are close partners of our sales team and own key components of the sales process, including infrastructural/architectural discovery, collaborative solution design, and technical validation. Solution Engineers may travel up to 50% of the time and will have the opportunity to work with teams worldwide, from visionary brands to innovative digital agencies. What To Expect? - Work directly with our Account Executives to support DACH customers - Support our sales team in helping prospects understand what’s possible with Contentful and how it compares to older legacy technologies - Understand prospects' project requirements, help prospects validate these requirements against our platform, identify and mitigate technical and business risks - Create product demonstrations and assist with technical evaluations to demonstrate how our platform solves identified business problems and integrates into a prospect’s technology stack - Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management, marketing, and sales. - Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure that newly-signed customers successfully implement and launch their projects with Contentful What You Need To Be Successful - Fluency in English and German are required - The desire to work in a fast-paced environment, across multiple opportunities and teams - 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 experience delivery utilising marketing technology platforms focused on CMS, Commerce, Personalisation, etc. - Strong presentation skills that demonstrate the ability to clearly and sympathetically convey business and technical knowledge to our varying personas that are both marketing-focused and technical-focused. - Proven experience with current web technologies (JavaScript frameworks, static site generators, REST APIs, CDNs, CI/CD, etc.) - A high degree of emotional intelligence to help navigate meetings with multiple customer stakeholders with varying degrees of engagement and influence. - A natural curiosity for how technology drives change and how that 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 the core concepts of MACH products and Composable architectures and how they relate to Contentful’s product and market position. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com. Contentful is now officially part of Salesforce. Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your Recruiter know. Equal Opportunity Statement Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education. Please be aware of scammers who may fraudulently claim to be from Contentful. These types of fraud can occur through copycat websites, fake email addresses claiming to be from our company, or social media. We do not ask for your personal information, such as bank account numbers, identification numbers, etc., through social media or chat-based apps, nor do we request or send money to purchase business equipment. 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