Solutions Engineer, WordPress VIP

Job Description

WordPress VIP is the world’s leading enterprise content management platform. We help the world's largest companies (including Meta, Salesforce, and Disney) create innovative digital experiences with WordPress.

We’re looking for a Solutions Engineer to provide technical leadership to our enterprise sales team, where you'll play a key part in building and maintaining the structure to support our sales programs. You’ll define and implement scalable processes and systems that deliver technical expertise, with a focus on consultative solution-based selling.

Responsibilities:

Partnering proactively with Sales and Customer Success to qualify new business opportunities in terms of technical requirements, competitive landscape, and business drivers.

• Identifying and solving customer problems proactively and creatively through effective project management and consultation on technical setup.
• Building proofs of concept and leading the demo process—including building, running, and training the team based on our buyer personas, verticals, and business priorities.
• Contributing to the RFP/RFI process as the primary point person on technical responses that Account Executives need assistance with.
• Recommending the integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on our Cloud.

Requirements: 

• 2+ years experience in a Solutions Engineer or related position with customer-facing experience translating customer technical requirements into value discussions.
• Experience with WordPress, PHP, or consulting experience.
• Demonstrated experience building Proofs of Concept and leading demo presentations.
• Worked closely with Account Executive teams developing solutions on complex sales opportunities.
• Outstanding communication; you should be great at holding people’s attention whether presenting, talking on the phone, or writing a quick blog post.

Salary range: $100,000-$150,000 USD plus variable commission - Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves.