Lead, Account Solution Engineer

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · India - Bangalore, India - Chennai

Salesforce is seeking a Lead, Account Solution Engineer to join their ESMB segment. This role involves collaborating with sales teams, understanding customer business requirements, co-creating future visions on the Salesforce platform, delivering compelling product demonstrations, and acting as a liaison between product and enablement teams. The position requires providing thought leadership on digital transformation, building new solutions, creating roadmaps, and articulating business value to executives. The role also involves responding to RFPs/RFIs and integrating cloud applications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide thought leadership in how organisation (across industries) can drive customer success through digital transformation.
  2. Ability to uncover the challenges and issues a business is facing by running successful and targeted discovery sessions and workshops.
  3. Be an innovator who can build new solutions using out-of-the-box thinking.
  4. Engage with business users to build solution presentations, demonstrations and prototypes.
  5. Build roadmaps that clearly articulate how partners can implement and accept solutions to move from current to future state.

Skills

Required

  • Degree or equivalent relevant experience required.
  • 10+ yrs of relevant experience in the IT Industry, either pre-sales or implementation of customer engagement solutions, supporting the sales cycle in selling CRM or high value business solutions.
  • Strong focus and experience in pre-sales or implementation is required.
  • Experience in demonstrating Customer engagement solution, understand and drive use cases, customer journeys, ability to draw ‘Day in life of’ across different LOBs.
  • Business Analysis/ Business case/return on investment construction.
  • Experience in sophisticated solution selling to customers
  • A broad understanding of and ability to articulate the benefits of Cloud Computing, SFA, Service & Support, Datacloud, AI and Mobile solutions.
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills with a focus on needs analysis, positioning, business justification, and closing techniques.
  • Outstanding presentation and demonstration skills.

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ yrs of relevant experience in the IT Industry, either pre-sales or implementation of customer engagement solutions, supporting the sales cycle in selling CRM or high value business solutions.
  • Strong focus and experience in pre-sales or implementation is required.