Solutions Engineer - WordPress VIP

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Overview

WordPress VIP is the world’s leading enterprise content management platform. We help the world's largest companies (including Meta, Salesforce, and Disney) create innovative digital experiences with WordPress.

We’re looking for a Solutions Engineer to provide technical leadership to our Enterprise sales team, where you\'ll play a key part in building and maintaining the structure to support our sales programs. You’ll define and implement scalable processes and systems that deliver technical expertise, with a focus on consultative solution-based selling.

Responsibilities
  • Partnering proactively with Sales and Customer Success to qualify new business opportunities in terms of technical requirements, competitive landscape, and business drivers.
  • Identifying and solving customer problems proactively and creatively through effective project management and consultation on technical setup.
  • Building proofs of concept and leading the demo process—including building, running, and training the team based on our buyer personas, verticals, and business priorities.
  • Contributing to the RFP/RFI process as the primary point person on technical responses that Account Executives need assistance with.
  • Recommending the integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on our Cloud.
Requirements
  • 5+ years experience in a Solutions Engineer or related position with customer-facing experience translating customer technical requirements into value discussions.
  • Understanding of enterprise business models, content distribution, audience engagement and enterprise focused technical solutions.
  • Experience with WordPress, PHP, or consulting experience.
  • Demonstrated experience building Proofs of Concept and leading demo presentations.
  • Worked closely with Account Executive teams developing solutions on complex sales opportunities.
  • Outstanding communication; you should be great at holding people’s attention whether presenting, talking on the phone, or writing a quick blog post.

Salary range: $150,000-$200,000 USD plus variable compensation - Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated for the right candidate.

This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves. #LI-Remote

About Automattic

Now in our 20th year, we’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

We’re a distributed company with more than 1400 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. Automattic is a Most Loved Company and Disability Confident Committed. (Here’s what that might mean for you.) Learn more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion and our Employee Resource Groups.

If you need disability-related accommodations during the application or interview process, please fill out this form. We are committed to ensuring an accessible hiring process for all candidates.

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You can track your application status and more at MyGreenhouse.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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