Pre-sales Services Consultant (engagement Services Manager)

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · CA · Remote · Customer Success

This role is a Pre-Sales Services Consultant (Engagement Services Manager) at Samsara, a company that provides a Connected Operations Cloud platform. The role focuses on representing Samsara's implementation/integration services, business development, and assisting customers in meeting their business needs with C-level personnel. It involves defining services scope, approach, and timeline during the sales cycle, and is accountable for meeting services ARR attach quota and managing the transition from sales to customer success. The role requires strong presentation and relationship-building skills, and experience in positioning professional services or technology solutions. It is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Articulate and sell the value of Samsara Services within prospective and existing accounts for enterprise customers.
  2. Work in conjunction with Sales Representatives and Sales Engineers to define and integrate the services solution into the comprehensive Samsara proposal.
  3. Own Services pursuits (ARR attach quota).
  4. Be responsible for forecasting services and closely monitoring ARR pipeline to understand capacity demands.
  5. Plan and manage Services scoping activity with prospective customers and produce proposals, level of effort, transition/KT, and resource plans.

Skills

Required

  • Positioning Professional Services or Technology Solutions
  • Building and maintaining positive relationships with sales, CSMs, and other key partners
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Strong innovation skills
  • Executing SOW/Proposal processes
  • Creating SFDC reports/dashboards
  • Navigating in SFDC

Nice to have

  • Customer Success
  • Sales Engineering
  • Change Management
  • Product Deployment

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of demonstrated experience in positioning Professional Services or Technology Solutions.
  • Building and maintaining positive relationships with sales, CSMs, and other key partners during implementations.
  • Strong presentation skills: Showing the value, capabilities, and differentiators of complex service solutions using methodologies and service offerings.
  • Strong innovation skills: Building services templates, services engagement processes, and services presentations by having a “builder” mentality.
  • A breadth of knowledge executing the SOW/Proposal processes by scoping, producing, and delivering to the customer SOWs that meet customers' documented requirements.