Salesforce

AI CRM

LeadSolutionEngineer-AgentBuilder

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Lead Solution Engineer - Agent Builder at Salesforce. Skills: AI CRM, Agentforce platform, Prototyping, LLM. Partner with Account Executives to advance and close Commercial opportunities. Run great technical discovery”

What You'll Achieve.

Drive success across the entire customer lifecycle; Accelerate prototyping and move fast; Ensure reliability; Deliver amazing experiences that customers love

Industry & Context.

AI CRM
Problems you'll solve

Navigate ambiguity; Finding simple solutions to complex problems; Root-cause analysis; Deep-dive debugging

Eligibility Requirements

Willingness to travel regularly for on-site enablement, pilots, hackathons, and customer events

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3 + years of experience in customer-facing technical selling roles or project delivery roles, Sales instinct and commercial curiosity, Value Translation, Builder Credibility & Programming Skills, Production LLM & AI Expertise, Pilot & Evaluation Experience, Exceptional ability to build Relationships, Intellectual Openness & Project Management Instincts

Nice to Have

ideally in an SMB software environment, You understand how pre-sales fits into a deal cycle, You are energised by closing a deal, not just completing a project, You can connect a working prototype to a business case, You speak ROI as fluently as you speak API, You have a career that includes meaningful time as a software engineer or solutions engineer, you have shipped code that other people depended on, You possess programming skills and have experience building production applications, You build with the products you represent and can ship a working demo over a weekend, You have production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering, agent and retrieval frameworks, You have supported technical evaluations or pilots in an enterprise setting, handling the security, administration, and scale conversations without needing to escalate everything to the product team, You are able to connect and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include C-suite executives, engineering & IT teams, and more, You maintain a low-ego, highly cooperative, and collaborative approach, You have the ability to navigate ambiguity, finding simple solutions to complex problems, You also have the project management instincts to run multi-week activation plans or pilots against defined success metrics without dropping the ball

What You'll Do.

Partner with Account Executives to advance and close Commercial opportunities

Run great technical discovery

Build prototypes and Proof of Concepts

Coach customers to connect data end-to-end

Design robust data models

Build efficient processing pipelines

Integrate enterprise data ecosystems

Perform detailed root-cause analysis

Deep-dive debugging of complex system interactions

Optimise performance and ensure reliability

Help customers understand

and activate autonomous AI agents

Apply advanced AI orchestration frameworks

Embed yourself deeply with client teams

Translate nuanced needs into actionable technical architecture

Mentor and coach junior SE team members

Create reusable assets

Create demo innovations

Create reference architectures

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Account Executives to advance and close Commercial opportunities; Embed yourself deeply with client teams and executive stakeholders; Collaborate with the broader team on a new reference architecture; Coach a junior SE on technical depth and demo techniques

Communication Scope

Communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Project management instincts

Full Job Description

_To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts._ Job Category Sales Job Details ****About Salesforce**** Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. ## **About the Role** We're looking for a highly skilled, technically driven professional to join our Commercial Solutions team, partnering with mid-sized organisations across all sectors and industries in Australia. This is a hands-on, high-impact role that goes beyond traditional pre-sales. You will partner with Account Executives to drive success across the entire customer lifecycle, while simultaneously embedding yourself with client teams to design, develop, and support the implementation of AI solutions leveraging our Agentforce platform. If you believe the best demo is a working prototype, and you have the technical mastery to roll up your sleeves, write code, remove blockers, and build something real for a customer, we'd love to hear from you. ## ## **What You’ll Do** * **Partner with Sales.** Partner with Account Executives to advance and close Commercial opportunities. This is a pre-sales role with engineering depth. * **Run great technical discovery.** Before you build anything, you ask the right questions. You uncover the real technical blockers, the architecture constraints, and the business outcomes that matter. * **Prototyping & Hands-on Implementa

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