Team Lead Solutions Consultant, Financial Services

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · Sales

The Team Lead, Solutions Consulting role is a hands-on player-coach responsible for leading a team of Solutions Consultants, managing pre-sales engagements for financial services clients, and building out the vertical's strategy and assets. This role requires a blend of people management, technical pre-sales expertise, and domain knowledge in financial services and AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the team - You'll manage 2 Solutions Consultants to start. As the FinServ business grows, so does the team.
  2. Own deals - This is a player-coach role. You'll be directly involved in opportunities
  3. Build the Financial Services - Practice FinServ is a new territory for Braze. There's no playbook; you’ll have a front seat at writing it.

Skills

Required

  • People management experience
  • leading teams
  • mentoring ICs
  • driving outcomes through others
  • Exceptional written and verbal communicator
  • executive presence
  • Strategic problem solver
  • operating autonomously and proactively
  • Experience selling into enterprise accounts
  • sophisticated technical buying teams
  • rigorous 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)
  • collaborative teammate
  • force multiplier

Nice to have

  • Pre-sales Engineering
  • Technical Account Management
  • Customer Success
  • experience in regulated industries

What the JD emphasized

  • primary Solution Consultant
  • managing and hiring Solutions Consultants
  • building out our vertical in Braze’s financial services
  • people management and leadership skills
  • Pre-sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, or Customer Success
  • people-management skills
  • mentor to Solutions Consultants
  • manage 2 Solutions Consultants
  • hiring and capacity
  • player-coach role
  • directly involved in opportunities
  • pre-sales end-to-end
  • discovery, solution design, demos, POVs, security reviews, exec presentations
  • Architecture, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Marketing Ops, and the C-suite
  • Position BrazeAI and advanced capabilities
  • technical depth and regulatory complexity
  • Product, Security, Professional Services, and partners
  • Practice FinServ is a new territory
  • Create the sales plays, discovery frameworks, and competitive positioning
  • Build the reusable assets
  • Sales, Marketing, and Product
  • Publish thought leadership
  • People management experience
  • leading teams, mentoring ICs, and driving outcomes through others
  • Exceptional written and verbal communicator
  • executive presence
  • Strategic problem solver
  • ambiguous, cross-functional challenges
  • operating autonomously and proactively
  • enterprise accounts
  • sophisticated technical buying teams
  • rigorous evaluation processes
  • regulated industries
  • Domain knowledge
  • AI
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • APIs
  • Marketing Automation
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Data and Architecture
  • Security and Compliance
  • Programming
  • collaborative teammate
  • force multiplier