Customer Solution Engineer

Summary

Join Zuora's Customer Solution Engineering team as a highly collaborative, outcome-oriented Customer Solution Engineer. You will work closely with Account Executives to solve critical business challenges and transformations for prospects and customers, helping them embrace digital transformation. As the technical expert, you will demonstrate Zuora's platform capabilities to enterprise businesses, securing technical wins and influencing the product roadmap. This remote position offers occasional office visits and requires expertise in the quote-to-cash cycle for enterprise businesses. You will be responsible for delivering product demonstrations, creating use-case demonstrations, and acting as a liaison to product management. The role involves travel within your sales territory.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience in Sales Engineering (presales, solution consultant, solution architect)
• Self-motivation and the desire to learn and become an expert on the entire quote-to-cash cycle for enterprise businesses across any sales channel in The Subscription Economy
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to drive discussions for both small and large groups within organizations
• Strong business value selling experience and familiarity with SaaS and Cloud technology
• An understanding of subscription and recurring revenue business models
• Experience working with a diligent sales process methodology (MEDDIC, Value Selling, etc.)
• General understanding of API development and various coding languages (php, ruby, java, etc.)
• Bachelor's Degree and/or relevant FinTech experience

Responsibilities

• Complete Zuora’s in-depth onboarding and sales training to become an expert in Zuora’s products, services, unique solutions, and technical capabilities
• Own the technical relationships with a deep understanding of customer needs and constraints
• Own adoption and the technical health of the customer
• Deliver product demonstrations and technical presentations to a C-Level audience and articulate how Zuora’s platform will allow their business to succeed and grow
• Create end-to-end use case-specific demonstrations mapped to prospects’ strategic objectives across industries
• Secure technical wins by differentiating Zuora against the competition, handle technical objections and mitigate any concerns that might block a deal from closing
• Act as the front-line liaison to our product management team by informing our product roadmap based on prospects’ needs
• Own making sure the customer is realizing value against their expectations
• Responsible for defining & monitoring the business case and KPIs in the account plan
• Help shape commercial strategy and technical action plan
• Help identify white space including the extension of our footprint & capabilities and expansion into new BUs
• Commercially present solutions in easy-to-grasp ways
• Coordinate resources from across Zuora & partners from a technical standpoint
• Work with product & solution mgmt to share the context (why) behind customer requests and potential applicability to others in a segment
• Manage escalations internally and externally with support from AEs and Customer Support to identify a root cause and action plan
• Ask for customer reference after milestones are delivered, with follow-up support from AEs and customer advocacy
• Collaborate with solution architects in overall design and approach
• Support sales and marketing at field events with product demonstrations and technical subject matter expertise
• Respond to technical elements of RFI’s / RFP’s
• Travel throughout your sales territory

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, corporate bonus program and performance rewards, company equity and retirement programs
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Generous, flexible time off
• Paid holidays, “wellness” days and company wide end of year break
• 6 months fully paid parental leave
• Learning & Development stipend