Hybrid Sales Engineering Manager

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Sales Engineers aligned to AEs, supporting discovery calls, live demos, trial execution, and solution design.
  • Ensure the delivery of compelling, customized demonstrations that align with buyer pain points and business outcomes across various stakeholders.
  • Drive operational excellence in proof-of-concept and trial workflows to ensure repeatability and scalability across the Mid-Market segment.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor on Motive’s current capabilities and future roadmap, ensuring the team can clearly articulate differentiated value.
  • Collaborate with AEs to craft persuasive responses to technical evaluations, RFPs, and security reviews.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Product Marketing to ensure clear communication and product feedback loops.
  • Develop and lead impactful team initiatives and cross-functional projects, mentoring Sales Engineers to scope, drive, and execute strategic efforts.
  • Support the sales process with deal strategy, objection handling, and competitive positioning tailored to the Mid-Market motion.
  • Partner with Business Value Services to reinforce ROI and key customer outcomes.
  • Stay informed on competitive trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies to guide team enablement and improve execution.
  • Report to the Director of Solution Engineering and foster a collaborative, high-impact team culture.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of pre-sales leadership experience, ideally within high-velocity, SaaS sales environments.
  • Proven background as an individual contributor Sales Engineer with a track record of success in technical selling.
  • Strong understanding of value-based selling frameworks such as MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, or Command of the Message, and Sales Engineering-specific methodologies like Demo2Win or Great Demo!.
  • Strong organizational and team leadership skills, with a focus on coaching and scaling.
  • Experience supporting sales cycles that involve software, integrations, cloud platforms, and hardware (IoT or AI/ML experience is a plus).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence both internally and externally.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred; Master’s degree a plus.
  • The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

Job title

Sales Engineering Manager

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Mid levelSenior

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