Principal Solution Engineer - Strategic

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Atlassian is looking for a Pre-Sales Principal Solutions Engineer for our strategic business who is passionate about being a product expert in the sales cycle, solving our customers' hardest business problems with our products and solutions, and helping close our enterprise deals. Interested? Read on!
In This Job, You Will:

• Partner with sales teams, partners, and larger account teams on transformation deals in large, global accounts with multi-million dollar spend thresholds
• Engage and build relationships with customers at the C-level and other executive levels, driving long-standing relationships across the organization
• participate in customer discovery to understand the customer's current state, what business problems they want to solve, and map back to the Atlassian products, platforms, and solutions that will get them where they want to be
• Probe for and identify additional opportunities for cross-product/solution expansion
• investigate, discover, and assess client pain points
• Be a product expert of Atlassian software in the pre-sales process, articulating and showing the customer the value of the software and how it can change their way of working
• have a broad understanding of full Atlassian product and solution offerings and paint a compelling story of how they work together to unlock the power of teams
• Lead compelling value-based demonstrations, both standard and customized
• Understand, lead, and guide the customer's technical needs in the sales process to gain buy-in from the customer on Atlassian being the right decision
• Proactively forge strong partnerships with your aligned strategic account executives, regularly discussing pipeline, current and upcoming opportunities and needs, bi-directional feedback, and ways to improve the selling cycle together
• Help lead cross-functional teams to best support the customer and march toward the same goals
• Understand, track, and document product feedback and competitive intelligence from customers and advocate for the development internally by documenting and sharing with product management
• Continuously learn, develop, and refine your pre-sales and product, solution, and platform offering knowledge and sales processes and Atlassian product progress

We're looking for a dynamic team member with a go-getter attitude who will both learn from and teach our passionate and growing organization.
On paper, you have 8+ years of experience interacting with Fortune 100 customers in a pre-sales capacity, with excellent communication, strong presentation skills to multi-level senior audiences, and heavy experience with the C-suite. You've got unmatched agility to do what it takes to get the job done and rally the internal teams to do the same. That's not my job isn't something you'll hear on this team - if you're looking to be a cog in the system, this job isn't for you.
You're a creative problem solver who can interpret complex business problems, boil them down into solutions, and collaborate with prospects, partners, and the Atlassian sales team to deliver compelling value-based solutions. You're equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives or talking shop with strong technical audiences. You love to learn and continuously grow and challenge yourself, are open to giving and receiving feedback, tolerate failure, love to win, hate to lose, and are passionate about making customers and Atlassian successful.

• 8+ years of experience in sales engineering, with at least four years covering large strategic accounts.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
• You're fluent in German and English.

More about our team
You'll be working alongside a globally distributed SE team, guiding and influencing our customers every day, and collaborating closely with our sales teams to close business. We're a get s#!% done distributed team, built on Atlassian's core values. If this sounds like how you want to work, then we're excited at the opportunity to have you join the team and help our company grow and change for the better.
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable and explainable compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
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