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Harness • Boston, MA 02108 • Posted 5 days ago

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In-person • Full-time • $164,000-$185,000/yr • Mid Level

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The Sales Engineer at Harness plays a crucial role in the intersection between sales and engineering, articulating technology and product positioning at various levels. This role involves being the primary technical support for the sales force, managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process, and ensuring customer success. The Sales Engineer is responsible for delivering product demonstrations, working directly with customers to debug errors, and strategizing with sales counterparts to steer customers towards commercial relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver a great product demonstration that tells a story of how our software provides value to customers
  • Represent the product to customers and at field events such as conferences, seminars, etc.
  • Remain knowledgeable and up-to-date on changes and developments on our technologies
  • Deliver complex technical engagements with customers to prove the value of Harness solutions
  • Work with customers directly to debug common errors
  • Tie business problems to technical solutions
  • Understand and articulate technology value propositions
  • Travel throughout a sales territory with minimal restrictions and occasionally on short notice

Qualifications

Required

  • Strong cloud knowledge
  • Experience with infrastructure automation such as Terraform
  • Ability to respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
  • Ability to convey customer requirements to Engineering teams

Preferred

  • Active software development experience
  • Prior background as a developer
  • Experience in a DevOps role

Full Job Description

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.POSITION SUMMARYThe Sales Engineer lives and works in the intersection between sales and engineering. The ideal candidate must be able to articulate technology and product positioning at the executive, business and technical levels. Sales Engineers are the primary technical support for the sales force and are responsible for actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process. They are there to ensure success with all Harness customers and strategize with their sales counterparts to steer customers to a commercial relationship.ABOUT THE ROLEWorld class presentation skills in delivering presentations/demos of our platformAble to work with customers directly to debug common errorsAbility to tie business problems to technical solutionsCapable of understanding and articulating technology value propositionsDrive complex technical engagements with customers to prove the value of Harness solutions ABOUT YOUYou will be responsible for delivering a great product demonstration which tells a story of how our software provides value to our customerYou will be responsible for representing the product to customers and at field events such as conferences, seminars, etc.You will remain knowledgeable and up-to-date on changes and developments on our technologiesYou either actively develop software, have a prior background as a developer, or worked with developers in a DevOps role Strong cloud knowledge, you worked with infrastructure automation such as TerraformYou are able to respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPsYou are able to convey customer requirements to Engineering teamsYou are able to travel throughout a sales territory with minimal restrictions and occasionally on short noticeWORK LOCATIONBoston, MA or Dallas, TXWHAT YOU WILL HAVE AT HARNESSCompetitive salaryComprehensive healthcare benefitsFlexible Spending Account (FSA)Flexible work scheduleEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Flexible Time Off and Parental LeaveMonthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building eventsMonthly internet & phone reimbursementThe anticipated base salary range for this position is $164,000 - $185,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position also includes a commission/variable component, which is based on performance, plus equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: . Pay transparency$164,000—$185,000 USDHarness in the news:Harness Grabs a $150m Line of CreditWelcome Split!Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From#6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list#17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For#47 on LinkedIn’ Top 50 Companies to Work For#2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers2021 Career Launching Companies ListAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.