Lead Solutions Consultant, Retail

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · Sales

This role is for a Lead Solutions Consultant in the Retail segment, focusing on pre-sales opportunities. The consultant acts as a trusted advisor, bringing product expertise and strategic vision to prospective customers. Responsibilities include leading complex evaluations, owning the technical sales motion, delivering product demonstrations, and designing technical validations. The role also involves partnering with Sales, Product, Security, and Marketing teams, and mentoring other Solutions Consultants. A key aspect is helping customers adopt new Braze capabilities, including AI features like AI Decisioning Studio, AI Content Optimizer, and AI Agents.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead complex pre-sales opportunities
  2. Own the technical sales motion for a set of Retail accounts, from discovery through clos
  3. Run structured discovery to uncover customer goals, constraints, and success criteria, then map them to a clear Braze solution
  4. Deliver product demonstrations, workshops, and technical deep dives tailored to both business and technical audiences
  5. Design and support technical validations and POVs that build customer confidence in Braze capabilities

Skills

Required

  • Strong written and verbal communicator
  • ability to present confidently to both technical and business stakeholders
  • Comfortable leading complex sales cycles
  • navigating ambiguity with structure and good judgment
  • Collaborative teammate
  • follow-through and partnership with Sales and cross-functional teams
  • Experience selling into enterprise accounts with sophisticated evaluation processes
  • Domain knowledge in two or more of the following: AI, SaaS, Mobile, APIs, Marketing Automation, Marketing Analytics, Data and Architecture, Security and Compliance, or Programming (including HTML)
  • Interested in mentoring others and helping improve how the team sells and delivers value

Nice to have

  • ideally within or adjacent to regulated industries

What the JD emphasized

  • Lead complex evaluations end-to-end
  • technical validation
  • sophisticated sales cycles
  • AI features
  • AI Decisioning Studio
  • AI Content Optimizer
  • AI Agents