Solutions Engineering Leader, JAPAC
Verkada
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Responsibilities
As a pivotal member of the Sr. Leadership team, this position will play a crucial role in:
- Overseeing the JAPAC Solutions Engineering team, ensuring its effectiveness and alignment with overall business objectives, including:
- Direct alignment to the JAPAC Sales Leadership at Verkada
- Educate customer executives & installers on Verkada products, programs, promotions, pricing and sales campaigns
- Design Verkada solutions that range from physical deployment and recommendations to Verkada best practices and Network Security recommendations/bandwidth requirements
- Responsible for working closely with product management, assisting in regional localization and and technical product adoption
- Leading budgeting and planning conversations with Strategic Finance and Sales Strategy and Operation Leadership
This position will be directly managing a team of JAPAC Solutions Engineers, including both individual contributors and people managers.
- Ongoing mentoring and development of the SE team which includes recruiting, hiring and coaching new SEs
- Assist SEs in closing highly complex transactions through the development of executive-level relationships with key partners and the sales team
- Act as the additional liaison/advocate between the Solutions Engineering and Sales teams.
This position is expected to require traveling 30-50% of the time, including travel to both national and international destinations.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated leadership success as a technical presales Director (L2) for the last 5+ years within a similar company
- Experience with Solutions Engineering roles
- Experience working at a cloud and network infrastructure focused company with hardware / software exposure required (experience working in the Physical Security industry desired but not required)
- Demonstrated success in directly leading a high-performing Solutions Engineering team within a sales environment
- Experience building and scaling technical pre-sales teams and eager to spearhead an emerging segment
- Proven leadership in international cross-functional collaboration; experience leading teams covering the following geos/countries (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand)
- Experience working at high-growth stage businesses desired but not required
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