Sr. Director - Tableau - Solution Engineering

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As part of the Tableau Center of Excellence (CoE), this role is pivotal in connecting Product, Sales, and Customers to drive the next chapter of analytics growth across Salesforce. The Senior Director of Global Solution Engineering (SE) COE serves as a bridge between innovation and execution – ensuring that Tableau’s product capabilities are deeply understood, effectively demonstrated, and strategically positioned to meet customer needs.

This leader will scale a world‑class pre‑sales organization, strengthen alignment across Core Solutions Engineering and Product teams, and elevate how Tableau’s value is brought to life for customers around the world.

This role also manages other leaders and oversees a portfolio of diverse, specialized teams whose collective mission is to build the capabilities, programs, and assets that enable the broader SE organization to operate at scale – with a relentless focus on innovation, efficiency, and building for the future of Solution Engineering.

• Own and lead the Global SE COE strategy, establishing a world‑class presales practice that scales across all regions and segments
• Act as the primary technical leader within the Tableau CoE and field organization, ensuring all technical requirements are addressed in collaboration with Core Solutions, Sales, and Product teams
• Work alongside Solutions leaders and ICs to provide high‑level and detailed product demonstrations, technical presentations, and proofs of concept (PoCs) for prospects and customers
• Develop and standardize SE methodologies, discovery frameworks, demo best practices, POC playbooks, and technical win strategies
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to understand new product developments and share customer feedback to influence future roadmap decisions
• Ensure alignment between customer technical requirements and Salesforce analytics capabilities, advocating for the best possible outcome for each prospect
• Partner with Product Marketing and Sales Enablement to develop collateral, training, and tools that support the sales process
• Lead initiatives to improve demo environments, technical documentation, and pre‑sales enablement to streamline the sales cycle
• Build and maintain a library of reusable assets – demos, technical accelerators, industry‑specific solutions, and competitive battle cards
• Champion the development of scalable assets, programs, and frameworks that increase the leverage and effectiveness of the field SE organization
• Partner across Sales, Product, Enablement, and other cross‑functional teams to identify opportunities to accelerate growth and reduce friction in the GTM motion
• Define, track, and report on KPIs for the SE COE including technical win rates, POC velocity, demo quality scores, and field readiness metrics; leverage data to identify areas for process improvement
• Lead a team of managers and senior individual contributors across multiple distinct functions, fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement
• Develop and retain top talent at all levels – from emerging contributors to senior technical leaders – creating clear pathways for growth and recognition
• Represent your teams’ work in executive forums, QBRs, and cross‑OU planning conversations, translating program outcomes into business impact
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the global SE community
• Operate with a founder’s mindset – willing to build new things, iterate quickly, and make resourcing tradeoffs in service of the bigger picture

• Significant experience in Solution Engineering, presales, technical consulting, or a closely related customer‑facing technical discipline,…