VP, Global Sales Engineering

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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VP, Global Sales Engineering

As the Vice President of Global Sales Engineering you will play a key role selling Fastly’s products and services. You'll be responsible for leading a global organization of Sales Engineers on the strategy and methods to increase operational efficiency and improve productivity of the selling organization.

The VP of Global Sales Engineering will collaborate with regional sales leaders around the globe to ensure a consistent Go To Market strategy. You’ll need to have strong empathy for customers, ability for data-driven decision making, systems thinking and an ability to coordinate with many different decision-makers in an organization. Additional responsibilities include leadership and development for Sales Engineering personnel, career planning, and compensation; and ensuring the execution of technical and professional excellence, in the technical aspect of the sales cycle with our global clients and prospects.

What You'll Do: 

• Build and execute on a strategic and operational plan for global Sales Engineering function
• Work collaboratively with sales and client services leaders to measure and improve the function
• Partner with global sales leaders and define the strategy and the operational SE coverage model to ensure effective deal coverage
• Produce and maintain technical sales support tools and documentation (e.g., product presentations, architecture reviews, application discussions, prototype development)
• Actively coach technical sales strategy for deals between SE & Sales teams
• Develop and lead the Proof of Concept framework with other key internal partners from Sales, Project Management & Solutions Engineering
• Balance workforce planning, budgeting and forecasting for SE organization
• Provide direction and strategy to SE managers to ensure operational excellence
• Actively measure, monitor and adjust resources and activities appropriately to maintain good customer engagement, sales process methodology and utilization

What. We're Looking For:

• MS/BS degree in Business, Computer Science, Business Analytics or equivalent preferred
• 15+ years experience leading pre-sales organizations
• Experience running 50+ technical professionals; demonstrable success mentoring front line managers, and senior technical specialists.
• Background in CDN, DNS, routing, caching, product/service management, internet protocols and website optimization and acceleration.
• Has proven executive presence, ability to effectively interact with executives within and outside of the company
• Strong interpersonal, project management and time management skills.
• Proven leadership skills in the ability to recruit, mentor, coach and develop employees
• Ability to quickly digest information and respond in an accurate and concise manner. Can respond appropriately to complex questions.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional organizations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills
• Willing and able to travel about 50%+ of time

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to both hybrid and remote work locations.

The preferred hybrid locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

We are also willing to consider remote candidates in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL,  Dallas, TX

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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