Solutions Engineering Manager, Enterprise Segment, DACH

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The Role
Manage and develop the Solutions Engineering team for the DACH region, driving sales strategies, fostering team growth, and ensuring effective collaboration with sales and product teams to address customer challenges and execute solutions aligned with business goals.
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Atlassian is looking for a manager to lead the Solutions Engineering (SE) team within the Enterprise segment for the DACH region. This leader will be vital in shaping a rapidly growing team and critical function within the Atlassian sales team. Atlassian's Solutions Engineering team partners with our direct sales and channel teams to deliver technical expertise in the sales cycle and assist in qualifying and closing high-value strategic opportunities while shaping the customer's solutions purchasing decisions across the full Atlassian suite of products. The ideal candidate will possess a unique blend of sales experience, technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership skills. Interested? Read on!
As the Solutions Engineering leader of DACH, Enterprise segment, you will focus on building credibility and trust with the technical leaders of our customers & prospects by developing cross-functional strategies and solutions. Our team brings technical expertise, real-world experience, strong executive engagement skills and an inspirational mindset to help our customers understand the opportunities of Atlassian's "System of Work" Platform. We act as technical leaders, helping customers solve their most complex business challenges through the value they realize from Atlassian solutions. We do this by leveraging best practice and industry standards to build customer trust, align to business outcomes and architect best in class solutions.
This leader will play a crucial role in driving our sales efforts in the DACH region by building highly scalable sales processes, tools and techniques. This leader will have experience building operational effectiveness and rigor across the organization. This individual will lead a team of skilled solutions engineers and collaborate closely with the sales, product, and partner teams to develop and articulate comprehensive cross-functional strategies and technical solutions that address the business challenges of a broad set of the customer base.

  • Leadership & Team Development:
    • Lead, mentor, and inspire a growing team of sales engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
    • Develop and implement training programs to enhance the team's technical and professional sales skills.
    • Build & Optimize processes that support rapid growth and expansion across the team and the business.
    • Provide thought leadership and collaborate with internal Atlassiana business units and stakeholders, craft the model of the Strategic market segment.
    • Buildout scalable functions that best serve the needs of the business while providing adequate Solutions Engineering coverage to meet the needs of the business
    • Continue to build out team domain disciplines in Cloud Migration, Service Management, Agile, DevOps, and Work Management solutions.
    • Establish performance metrics and conduct regular evaluations to ensure team members meet and exceed goals.
  • Strategic Planning & Execution:
    • Collaborate with senior leadership to define and execute the sales engineering aligned with the Strategic market segment.
    • Operationalize "Metrics that Matter" to effectively manage the business and ensure the most effective utilization of SE resources.
    • Identify and prioritize key market opportunities, driving initiatives to capture new business and expand existing accounts.
    • Ensure proper alignment of resources and effective utilization of skill sets within assigned regions.
    • Align sales engineering activities with overall company goals and objectives.
  • Customer Engagement & Solution Design:
    • Engage in high-impact sales pursuits across Europe. Interact at multiple levels within a customer account (Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Directors, VPs, and CXOs) and maintain these relationships throughout their customer journey.
    • Provide technical leadership during sales presentations, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements
    • Engage with marketing to align on effective pipeline generation activities in the Strategic market and create new routes to market to create a new prospecting pipeline funnel pipeline.
    • Ensure the seamless integration and deployment of solutions, addressing any technical issues that may arise
    • Demonstrate strong executive alignment with key resources across the Partner/Channel community
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    • Work closely with product management, marketing, and R&D teams to ensure the development of solutions that align with market demands and customer feedback.
    • Serve as a liaison between sales engineering and other departments to communicate customer needs and market trends.
    • Maintain a rigorous feedback loop with the product teams and deliver a point of view on roadmap investment priorities
    • Drive the creation of technical collateral, including whitepapers, case studies, and solution briefs.
  • Market & Industry Expertise:
    • Stay abreast of industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies to provide strategic insights and recommendations.
    • Understand the local market nuances across the Global customer base, including Culture, Business practices and preferences.
    • Represent the company at industry conferences, trade shows, and customer events, showcasing our solutions and thought leadership.
    • Develop and maintain strong relationships with key industry stakeholders and partners.
    • Fluent in German.


The SE team's expertise is often critical to developing new solution-based sales opportunities in our high-growth business, as well as shaping the enablement and go-to-market perspective around such solutions. You will need to partner with a diverse set of stakeholders - direct sales, channel sales, field marketing, product marketing, and sales enablement - to best shape the areas of joint execution with each team. Given the broad demand for your team's time and expertise, you will need to negotiate prioritization of when and where SE assistance is best used with each team.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in upleveling the professional selling skills of the team, specifically in value creation of SaaS & Cloud solutions.
We're looking for a dynamic leader with a go-getter, get sh!t done attitude, who will challenge and grow our passionate and growing organization.
On paper, you have 3+ years of experience leading a SaaS sales engineering team. You are well versed in interacting with enterprise customers in a pre-sales capacity, with excellent communication, strong presentation skills to multi-level audiences, and unmatched agility to grow the 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 sales strategies that take us to the next level. 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 growing a team of sales engineers to be the best they can be and drive the business strategies forward.
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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .

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