Presales Engineer

Headquarters:
Remote - United Kingdom

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The Twilio Presales Engineer is both highly technical and a skilled executive relationship builder. They are comfortable showing an engaging communications experience to a CEO or sketching out a flow on a whiteboard with technical decision makers. This position is needed to deliver the technical win and product fit to our customers across the EMEA region. A Twilio Presales Engineer is an experienced pre‑sales engineer who builds customer trust in Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform, resulting in customer success at our largest, most strategic accounts.

The Presales Engineer leads the technical pre‑sales relationship, proposes technical architectures, demonstrates the product, anticipates concerns, and provides creative solutions to our customers' most complex communications and customer engagement challenges and needs.

• Work alongside Twilio New business Account Executives, other Twilio Solutions Engineers, Professional Services and Twilio Partners as needed through the pre‑sales process, to strategise and plan for deal success.
• Build a successful business partnership with Twilio Account Executives focusing on great business discovery within prospects and communicating the business value of Twilio solutions.
• Take part alongside Account Executives in qualification, discovery, demonstrations, Proof‑of‑Concept, RFP response, design documentation, technical presentations and enablement sessions during the sales cycle.
• Develop subject matter expertise on the customer needs and requirements, and Twilio’s best in class communications technology.
• Lead technical discovery sessions with our customers to uncover their needs and challenges to articulate Twilio’s ability to enable their success and solve their challenges.
• Build and present powerful and complex presentations and product demos to help showcase the capabilities of Twilio Communications Products.
• Form an understanding of a customers business and help solve problems they’ve identified as well as uncover areas of opportunity.
• Build trusted advisor relationships at the highest levels of our customers and present creative new solutions and architectures that enable and inspire innovation.
• Contribute to the wider Twilio Solutions Engineer community by sharing knowledge, building demo assets and reusable presentations.

Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio.

We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table! Twilio is looking for a Presales Engineer with a strong desire to work in a technical pre‑sales role. You will need:

• At least 3 years in a technical pre‑sales role in CPaaS, SaaS or Telecom space.
• Solid understanding and experience of the sales cycle and the role of a pre‑sales engineer.
• Solid understanding of voice protocols (VoIP), SIP implementations or messaging APIs.
• Creativity: you’ll need to be a problem solver, able to collaborate with others to drive…