AvePoint
Technology
Pre-SalesEngineer
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“Pre - Sales Engineer at AvePoint. Skills: Pre-sales engineering, Solution design, Technical consulting, Customer engagement. Lead deep discovery. Understand customer objectives”
What You'll Achieve.
Address complex business challenges; Achieve outstanding results; Translate customer objectives into solution direction; Influence roadmap; Achieve measurable outcomes
Industry & Context.
Solve complex technical challenges; Handle objections; Handle risks
Attendance in office 3 times/week, Availability during core hours, Travel with role needs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Customer-facing presales or technical consulting experience, Software solutions proposal experience, Strategic thinking for deal closure, Technical expertise, Sales-oriented mindset, Confidence presenting to audiences, Ability to lead conversations, Ability to carry meetings, Microsoft 365 architecture understanding, Microsoft 365 components understanding, Microsoft 365 configuration understanding, Purview knowledge, SharePoint knowledge, Teams knowledge, Solve complex technical challenges independently, Translate business needs into technical designs
Nice to Have
Familiarity with cloud ecosystems beyond Microsoft, Google Cloud familiarity, Salesforce familiarity, Other SaaS offerings familiarity
What You'll Do.
Understand customer objectives
Map objectives to solution vision
Deliver high-impact technical presentations
Deliver tailored demonstrations
Craft value narratives
Influence customer's buying vision
Lead engineering activities
Ensure technical feasibility
Align solutions with business outcomes
Lead proposal writing
Showcase product line satisfaction
Support go-to-market initiatives
Develop product demonstrations
Deliver product demonstrations
Develop thought leadership content
Deliver thought leadership content
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Virtual account teams; Product specialists; Sales teams; Senior technical leaders; Solution Engineering team
Communication Scope
Technical presentations; Technical demonstrations; Value narratives; Presenting to audiences; Leading conversations
Full Job Description
About the position: As aPre-Sales Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in positioning AvePoint solutions for our customers, by designing and delivering tailored solutions that address complex business challenges. Leveraging your deep business and technical expertise and strong consultative skills, you will work closely with customers, the virtual account teams (VAT), and product specialists to understand requirements, design solutions, and demonstrate the value of AvePoint’s offerings As the technical lead for opportunities and key customers, you’ll define and drive the technical win strategy from start to finish; proactively uncovering customer challenges, shaping solution approaches, and moving the deal forward from a technical standpoint. You will be involved from discovery calls, to delivering compelling technical presentations and demos, to taking charge of proof-of-concept initiatives and providing expert guidance throughout both pre-sales and post-sales phases. You’ll operate with a high-level of independence and autonomy, while collaborating closely with sales teams and senior technical leaders to ensure customers achieve outstanding results. This is a role for someone who brings: Technical aptitude: you can solve complex technical challenges independently, drawing on deep expertise. You confidently navigate and unblock challenges handling objections and risks by anchoring discussions in outcomes, value, and impact. Collaboration, innovation & teamwork: you thrive working as part of a team, collaborating to deliver seamless and high impact customer outcomes. You actively contribute ideas that improve how the team operates and take initiative to turn those ideas into action. You share knowledge freely, support and mentor others, and hold yourself and your peers to standards that raise the bar for customer impact. You go beyond the minimum to ensure customers receive thoughtful, well aligned solutions that reflect collective expertise rather than individual ef
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