Principal Solutions Engineer, Strategic

In this role, 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 to long-standing relationships across the organization

• participate in customer discovery to understand the customers 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 customers 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 products progress

Qualifications

• Your background:

  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.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, were 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 everyones 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.

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