Senior Solutions Consultant

PagerDuty PagerDuty · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Sales

PagerDuty is seeking a Senior Solutions Consultant to understand customer business environments, identify roadblocks, and provide solutions leveraging PagerDuty's products. The role involves running technical discovery, providing guidance, and supporting the sales process to ensure customer success. The Solutions Consultant acts as a consultant, technical salesperson, product specialist, and teacher, building relationships and helping customers optimize PagerDuty's capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Actively identify potential roadblocks and provide thoughtful, technical solutions
  2. Run technical discovery processes to understand customer environments and potential technical landmines
  3. Design integrations to provide seamless implementation with the customer's current technology stack
  4. Support sales cycles by handling technical questions in RFPs, RFIs, and security questionnaires
  5. Break down complex technical concepts and clearly articulate PagerDuty's business value to stakeholders from DevOps engineers up to C-level executives

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of pre-sales experience
  • Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in a technical field
  • Ability to do basic scripting (Java, PHP, Ruby, Perl)
  • Fundamental knowledge of Linux
  • Experience selling SaaS in a fierce environment
  • Strong communication skills
  • Demonstrable knowledge of IT monitoring tools or IT Operations
  • Excellent at multi-tasking, self-driven, and able to work both independently and with cross-functional teams
  • Ability to travel to customer sites as necessary

Nice to have

  • Understanding of monitoring systems such as New Relic, Nagios, Zenoss, Splunk, ServiceNow, and Zabbix
  • Familiarity and knowledge of PagerDuty's space, or already being a fan of our product
  • Experience in both enterprise and commercial sales

What the JD emphasized

  • technical solutions
  • technical discovery
  • technical questions
  • technical concepts
  • technical landmines