Staff Solutions Architect at Upbound collaborates with customers to address technical challenges and implement solutions. This role enhances pre-sales efforts across North America.
Responsibilities
Partnering with a Sales Account Executive to engage in technical discussions with customers throughout the buying lifecycle.
Working cross functionally with product marketing, and independently, to create and deliver high fidelity presentations, custom demos, sample solutions, and present use cases to guide the customer through the buying journey
Closely partnering with customers and platform builders to solve technical and business challenges which enables them to design, build and implement Crossplane and Upbound Cloud based control plane architectures.
Working directly with customers and platform builders to define, implement, and test out early proof of concepts of Crossplane and Upbound Cloud.
Collect detailed customer requirements so product and engineering can accurately estimate and resource the necessary implementation services.
The technical voice and trusted advisor to the customer and represent the customer needs internally.
Project manage the account pre and post sale to ensure a smooth and frictionless customer experience through implementation in partnership with Solutions Architect and implementation teams.
Requirements
Worked in pre-sales, consulting, or equivalent experience in an enterprise environment.
Experience developing relationships with engineering, executive, and commercial teams throughout large organizations.
Guided customers through designing and deploying Kubernetes to their production environments.
A deep understanding of highly scaled and reliable services, solutions, and infrastructure in multiple major cloud providers.
Worked directly with customers and/or open source community members to troubleshoot and solve their complex technical issues preventing successful adoption.
Deployed and integrated the projects and tools of the Cloud Native Landscape, especially CNCF projects, into production environments.
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The ability to work closely with people in a wide variety of disciplines from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Successfully managed multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Successfully identified and removed friction from the buying process resulting in a more streamlined and shortened sales cycle.
Excitement and comfort being a key part of further defining, scaling, and making this part of our sales process thrive.
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