Senior Partner Solutions Engineer - US West

Do you relish the opportunity to work with global brands?

How would you like to evangelize our cutting-edge products to partners?

Join our North America Presales team

Our Enterprise Security Group is responsible for developing and selling Enterprise Security, Segmentation, and Application Access products.

Working with the Partner's Sales & Presales teams, we help their customers evolve their infrastructure by implementing Zero Trust architecture and intelligent network segmentation laying the foundation for a more secure, agile, and responsive environment.

Shape the future of the internet

Our Global Channels team is one of the fastest growing areas of Akamai.

You'll play an integral part in sales cycles, defining solutions and go-to-market sales motion of our partners.

You'll be both the channel partners' trusted advisor and technical expert.

Through channel partners, you will work with the Channel Sales team to grow Akamai's strategic products.

As a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer , you will be responsible for:

• Developing trusted relationships with partners' sales and technical sales leaders
• Supporting channel sales team to grow the topline revenue through channel partners nationally and regionally
• Enabling our focused partners to resell and service Akamai's strategic products
• Customizing resources such as sales plays, market intelligence and use cases to drive partner sourced opportunities and position Akamai's market differentiations through the partners
• Representing the needs of partners with product teams, marketing, services and support to drive our partners success

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, MIS, related field or its equivalent.
• Have experience working in a customer facing technical channel sales or presales
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the internet, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, and SSL protocols
• Be a customer advocate passionate about delivering technical solutions
• Demonstrate experience with presenting technical topics to diverse audiences.
• Be a team player, able to collaborate, prioritize, and solve problems in a fast changing environment

Work in a way that works for you