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Enterprise Solutions Engineer (Pre-Sales), France

Postman
Remote, France, FranceRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Mar 2023
💰 $230,000/yr($170,000/yr$230,000/yr)

About the role

Who Are We?

Postman is the world's leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API & streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 23 million developers & 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today. After receiving Series D funding in 2021 & releasing our biggest & best version ever of Postman in September 2022, we continue to strive humbly towards our mission of 100 million connected developers & serving companies as they seek to innovate in an API-first world. 

We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture & our vision at Postman.

About the Team

With so many organizations using Postman, we are looking for exceptional Solutions Engineers to join our team & to help us to efficiently support & grow our enterprise business. You will partner with our Sales team to promote an API-first development culture, nurture customer relationships, & guide Postman users on how to most effectively leverage our platform to build their APIs. Ideally, we are looking for someone who lives & breathes APIs, is comfortable with JavaScript, has experience in enterprise sales, & is an expert Postman user already!

In addition to working with a product that customers already know & love, you will be well-supported in this role by our Sales, Customer Success, Developer Relations, & Engineering teams.

What You’ll Do 

  • Help drive enterprise sales by nurturing prospects & supporting Strategic & Enterprise customers
  • Conduct discovery, qualification, technical demos, & proof of value workshops with prospective customers looking to shift to an API-first development culture
  • Handle Postman technical questions or objections & provide solutions or workarounds to address customer needs
  • Understand deeply our customers workflows today & how they can adopt API-first development best practices
  • Share customer feedback with appropriate teams & provide general customer advocacy
  • Remain up-to-date with the competitive landscape, current trends, & challenges in the API market
  • Create proof of concept integrations, tooling, & workflows as needed to support prospective customers
  • Maintain & develop customer sandbox environments & best practices of working with the product
  • Act as a technical intermediary between sales & other teams to best fit our customers needs

About You 

  • 6+ years of enterprise sales/solutions engineering experience
  • 2+ years of software development experience
  • Fluent in French
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or relevant work experience
  • Remote work friendly, with ability to travel up to 40%
  • Loves teamwork & collaboration in a fast-paced environment
  • Customer facing experience & comfortable engaging all levels of technologists including individual developers, QA, product, & engineering leaders
  • Experience engaging senior management & executive audiences to convey Postman's value proposition
  • Capable of forging deep, long-lasting relationships with Strategic customers
  • Strong understanding of APIs, & experience with producing & consuming with APIs across different domains
  • Strong understanding of modern development methodologies & DevOps with an appreciation of the software development life cycle
  • Comfortable with the enterprise SaaS sales process & common security concerns of cloud services
  • Experience executing enterprise sales strategies & sales methodologies like MEDDIC, Challenger Sale, Command of the Message, etc.
  • Excellent listener that seeks to understand what a customer is trying to achieve rather than pre-supposing solutions
  • Familiar with typical developer tooling: IDEs, Git, CI/CD, monitoring services, microservices, containers, cloud computing services, etc.
  • Fast learner, excited & willing to learn new technology on an ongoing basis
  • Great communication skills (presentation, verbal & written)
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
  • Lots of smiles

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger visi

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