Presales Engineer

Twilio Twilio · Enterprise · Spain · Remote · Solutions Engineering

Twilio is seeking a Presales Engineer to join their Communications EMEA team. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and executive relationship-building skills to deliver technical wins and product fit to customers. The Presales Engineer will work with Account Executives and other teams to strategize for deal success, build business partnerships, and lead technical discovery sessions. Responsibilities include participating in qualification, discovery, demonstrations, RFP responses, and technical presentations. The role also involves developing subject matter expertise on customer needs and Twilio's communication technology, building trusted advisor relationships, and contributing to the Solutions Engineer community.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work alongside Twilio New business Account Executives, other Twilio Solutions Engineers, Professional Services and Twilio Partners as needed through the pre-sales process, to strategise and plan for deal success.
  2. Build a successful business partnership with Twilio Account Executives focussing on great business discovery within prospects and communicating the business value of Twilio solutions.
  3. Take part alongside Account Executives in qualification, discovery, demonstrations, Proof-of-Concept, RFP response, design documentation, technical presentations and enablement sessions during the sales cycle.
  4. Develop subject matter expertise on the customer needs and requirements, and Twilio’s best in class communications technology.
  5. Lead technical discovery sessions with our customers to uncover their needs and challenges to articulate Twilio’s ability to enable their success and solve their challenges.

Skills

Required

  • At least 5 years in a technical pre-sales role in CPaaS, SaaS or Telecom space
  • Solid understanding and experience of the sales cycle and the role of a pre-sales engineer
  • Solid understanding of voice protocols (VoIP), SIP implementations or messaging APIs
  • Creativity: you’ll need to be a problem solver, able to collaborate with others to drive success.
  • An engaging storyteller: you can gain audience confidence and communicate complex topics to multiple levels of technical and non-technical audience.
  • Ability to ask the right questions to build a deep understanding of a customers needs and guide them to a technical solution using Twilio Communications products
  • Knowledge of public cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) and cloud application architectures
  • Experience writing code in one or more of the following areas, multiple areas of experience would be advantageous

Nice to have

  • Hands on experience with with backend development (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, etc)
  • Familiarity with Mobile development, especially for iOS and Android.
  • Previous experience in Telecommunications, SIP, WebRTC, or Contact Centre in a technical role
  • Experience with automation, cloud-native development and skills with a major cloud platform.
  • Experience with sales methodologies
  • Additional language speaker a plus, specifically French or Hebrew

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 5 years in a technical pre-sales role in CPaaS, SaaS or Telecom space
  • Solid understanding and experience of the sales cycle and the role of a pre-sales engineer
  • Solid understanding of voice protocols (VoIP), SIP implementations or messaging APIs