Lead Solution Engineer

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Solution Engineer for their Slack team in London, UK. This role focuses on partnering with Account Executives to drive complex sales cycles, understand customer needs, and design Slack-based solutions. The engineer will also handle security and compliance discussions, guide customers through evaluations, and act as a liaison between product, marketing, and sales. A key responsibility is mentoring other SEs on positioning Slack as the 'Agentic OS'. The role requires extensive experience in SaaS sales engineering or solution consulting, strong communication and presentation skills, a consultative approach, and the ability to overcome technical and security objections. Familiarity with the enterprise SaaS ecosystem and modern workplace environments is expected. The company mentions using AI tools in recruiting and highlights their AI CRM and 'Agentforce' initiatives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Account Executives to drive complex, multi-stakeholder deal cycles across industries to solve diverse mission-critical business problems
  2. Drive the discovery process, helping to uncover your customer’s current pains and align to their business objectives
  3. Prepare and deliver high impact presentations and demonstrations that tell Slack's differentiated story
  4. Partner with customers to design Slack based solutions that drive value and significant business impact
  5. Mentoring and coaching other SEs, account teams and partners on positioning Slack as the Agentic OS

Skills

Required

  • 6 - 10 years of sales engineering or solution consulting experience in a SaaS or tech-first organisation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Knack for delivering compelling presentations and product demonstrations
  • Consultative approach with solving your customer’s business challenges
  • Track record of successfully overcoming technical and security objections
  • Problem solving
  • Extensive Slack experience, including Workflows and Integrations
  • Business proficiency in English
  • Ability to thrive and adapt to a rapidly evolving product and market
  • Knowledge of productivity / collaboration tools landscape
  • Familiarity with the enterprise SaaS ecosystem and modern workplace environments

What the JD emphasized

  • customer success
  • reimagine how work gets done
  • drive value and significant business impact
  • technical objections
  • security objections
  • key business objectives
  • technical requirements