Staff/senior Solutions Consultant

DeepL DeepL · AI Frontier · Tokyo, Japan · Sales

DeepL is seeking a Staff/Senior Solutions Consultant in Tokyo to serve as a technical expert and strategic advisor for enterprise accounts, bridging the gap between DeepL's AI features and customer needs to drive adoption and satisfaction. This role involves leading complex sales cycles, developing technical strategies, creating enablement content, and influencing product development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the technical strategist for high-impact enterprise accounts, shaping customers’ architecture and integration roadmap with DeepL.
  2. Lead complex, multi-threaded sales cycles, driving technical discovery, advanced evaluations, proofs of concept, and complex RFP/RFI responses.
  3. Develop and deliver sophisticated demos, prototypes, and technical presentations tailored to both business and technical audiences.
  4. Create and refine scalable frameworks, workflows, and enablement content (e.g., integration playbooks, demo assets, ROI models) adopted by the broader SC team.
  5. Lead cross-functional process innovation initiatives—such as improved deal intake flows or optimized SC-to-Sales/CSM handoff processes—that enhance operational efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of professional experience
  • 5+ years in client-facing pre-sales, sales engineering, technical consulting, or enterprise implementation roles within a SaaS or cloud technology company
  • Proven track record operating in complex enterprise sales cycles
  • Extensive hands-on experience leading customer evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and large-scale deployments
  • Deep technical proficiency, including practical expertise with REST APIs, identity and access management (IAM), SSO/SAML/OAuth/OpenID, and integration patterns across modern SaaS architectures
  • Ability to master new technologies rapidly
  • Strong understanding of enterprise IT, security, risk, and compliance processes
  • Experience guiding customers through detailed security questionnaires, architecture reviews, and RFP/RFI processes

Nice to have

  • Motivated by working in a scale-up environment where processes evolve quickly; you thrive in ambiguity, contribute to organizational maturity, and help shape how the t

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years in client-facing pre-sales, sales engineering, technical consulting, or enterprise implementation roles
  • Extensive hands-on experience leading customer evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and large-scale deployments
  • Deep technical proficiency, including practical expertise with REST APIs, identity and access management (IAM), SSO/SAML/OAuth/OpenID, and integration patterns across modern SaaS architectures
  • Strong understanding of enterprise IT, security, risk, and compliance processes