Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Solutions Engineer

Riverbed Technology, Inc.$90K — $120K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in a pre-sales role
  • In-depth knowledge of enterprise sales cycles and strategies
  • Familiarity with competitive technologies and industry trends
  • Strong consultative skills from performance engineering engagements
  • Willingness to travel 20% - 40% of the time
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and passion for technical sales

Responsibilities

  • Act as the technical expert throughout the sales process
  • Collaborate with Sales team on the sales cycle and account strategy
  • Identify customer requirements and explore additional resources
  • Document business and technical needs to create tailored proposals
  • Build and maintain relationships with key partners
  • Facilitate training and enablement for partner ecosystem

Benefits

  • Flexible workplace policies
  • Access to employee resource groups
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Career progression pathways
  • Engagement in community initiatives
  • Wellness programs for physical, emotional, and financial health
Full Job Description
Position

Title: Solutions Engineer

Location: US - Texas or NorthEast

Technology Specialization: Unified Observability

Riverbed is looking to hire Solutions Engineers, to function in a highly technical pre-sales environment, creating technical solutions to solve business problems for global enterprises.

What you will do

  • Serve as the technical subject matter expert throughout the sales process. Owning and managing various pre-sales activities - including technical presentations, demonstrations, and proof of concept projects.
  • Collaborate with the Sales team, jointly owning the sales cycle and account plan.
  • Help to drive deeper & wider into the account - identifying requirements for additional resources from other departments within the customer, customer alternatives (i.e., other means of handling their current requirements), and potential internal sponsors.
  • Understand and document customer business & technical requirements and use them to create value-based proposals, addressing business drivers & pain points - guiding the technical sales cycle towards a technical close & a business win.
  • Build strong relationships with key contacts in the partner ecosystem. Work with Channel Sales team to build and strengthen relationships with partners; Oversee product and solutions training and enablement of the partner ecosystem so that they can be leveraged to help drive opportunities to technical close.


What makes you an ideal candidate

  • Experience in a pre-sales role, with a deep understanding of enterprise sales cycles and various selling strategies.
  • Relevant competitive knowledge - i.e., industry, technologies and product offerings, evolving technologies, and threats.
  • Proven consultative skills from prior performance engineering engagements in presales or professional services.
  • Able to travel 20% - 40%
  • Outgoing personality and passionate about technical sales and working with customers.


What we offer

Our employee benefits including flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives are some of the reasons why we have had great success in bringing in new talent. In addition, our global employee wellness programs are crafted to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of our employees.

Benefits & Perks vary by Country.

Check us out on:
www.riverbed.com
@LifeAtRiverbed

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About Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. is an American information technology company that develops products to improve application performance across wide area networks (WANs), a technique known as WAN optimization. Its products reduce latency and bandwidth constraints in delivering applications via WANs to multiple locations across long distances. Riverbed has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Size
2,700 employees
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Founded
1998

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