Lead Solution Engineer

Gong Gong · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Sales Engineering

This role is for a Lead Solution Engineer at Gong, a company that uses AI to enhance revenue teams. The Solution Engineer acts as a technical advisor to prospects and customers, demonstrating how the Gong platform, powered by AI, can drive business outcomes. Responsibilities include understanding the platform, conducting assessments, creating demos, and collaborating with internal teams to influence the product roadmap. The role requires extensive customer-facing experience and a good understanding of sales technology, with AI/ML concepts being a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work alongside Sales and Customer Success as the ultimate product expert and account team technical advisor.
  2. Thoroughly understand all aspects of the Gong platform in order to explain and demo the technology to all types of users.
  3. Be the trusted advisor to both prospects and customers to ensure they get the correct business outcome and value from our Gong technology, including business value quantification.
  4. Assist prospects and customers with business assessments (POCs, Pilots).
  5. Craft content to show customers how to leverage Gong for specific use cases.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of customer facing experience in a solution engineering role (pre-sales) or a combination of solution engineering and other relevant work experience.
  • Experience with sales technology: CRMs, cloud architecture, or telephony / web conference systems.
  • Understanding of security and privacy pertaining to SaaS systems.
  • Understanding of key sales personas and workflows (including forecasting and prospecting) within a GTM organization.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.
  • Able to make the complex sound simple!

Nice to have

  • Experience with data flows, AI & ML concepts, analytics, APIs, webhooks, or JSON is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-first approach
  • AI-powered intelligence
  • specialized agents