Principal, Data Cloud Solution Engineer

4 Weeks ago • All levels • Data Analyst

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Job Description

The Principal, Data Cloud Solution Engineer at Salesforce will drive the entire opportunity lifecycle, from technical discovery to close. This role requires collaboration with Account Executives, prioritizing and developing industry-specific use cases. Responsibilities include implementing programs to scale technical evaluations, collaborating with product teams, developing field enablement assets, partnering with product marketing, and delivering Salesforce's data strategy point-of-view. The ideal candidate possesses experience in customer-facing solutioning for Data, Analytics, AI, and CRM, along with full-stack technical qualifications and C-level executive relationship management experience. They should be skilled in guiding discovery conversations and driving customer success in large, complex selling organizations.
Must have:
  • Customer-facing solutioning for Data, Analytics, AI, and CRM
  • Full-stack technical qualifications (CRM, Data Architecture, AI/ML)
  • Experience with C-Level executive relationships
  • Complex data architecture integration
  • Impactful discovery conversations
  • Driving customer success in large organizations
Good to have:
  • Expertise in modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)
  • Experience with data analytics tools (Tableau, Looker, etc.)
  • Data programming models (DataFrames, pandas)
  • AI experience (Python, R, Jupyter Notebooks)
  • Salesforce platform knowledge
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Job Category

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Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Department Description

Delivering customer success with Data + AI + CRM + Trust is the unique value proposition for Salesforce and the Customer 360 Platform.

Salesforce Data Cloud is a startup within Salesforce focused on next-generation technology at Salesforce, and the flagship innovation and hyperscale data platform built natively into Salesforce.

We are creating a dynamic, constantly evolving environment where expertise in design, and technology is demonstrated every day to drive innovation.

As an SE in Salesforce Data Cloud you will bring a unique combination of executive-level presence combined with full-stack technical skills that ensure Data Cloud delivers value to customers integrated with complex customer data architectures!

Key Responsibilities

  • Arrange and conduct in-person & web-based meetings to drive the entire opportunity lifecycle from technical discovery to technical close

  • Collaborate strategically with Account Executives across the customer base and the sales organization to prioritize and develop Industry-specific use cases grounded in consistent architectures that have proven repeatability with customers

  • Implement programs to efficiently scale technical evaluation of Salesforce Data Cloud

  • Collaborate with Salesforce product teams to deeply understand Salesforce solutions and roadmap, and advocate for key features needed for success across the Industry/Territory via Voice of the Customer feedback

  • Develop scalable, deployable, reusable, and relevant field enablement technical assets that drive differentiated business outcomes in order to accelerate adoption across customers, partners, and sales teams

  • Partner with Product Marketing to advise messaging and sales plays across all of Salesforce

  • Deliver the overall Salesforce point-of-view for data strategy aligned to industry-specific use cases

Essential Requirements

  • Experience in customer-facing solutioning for Data, Analytics, AI and CRM

  • Full-stack technical qualifications (CRM, Data Architecture, AI/ML) combined with experience owning technical relationships with C-Level executives

  • Experience integrating complex data architectures to drive business value for customers

  • Skilled at guiding impactful discovery conversations to unveil multifaceted client needs and objectives

  • Experience driving customer success in large, complex selling organizations

  • Persuasive verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills that inspire change in large organizations

Preferred Requirements

  • Hands-on expertise in modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Big Query, RedShift), data analytics tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI), data programming models (DataFrames, pandas), and AI (Python, R, Jupyter Notebooks)

  • AI: Python/R, data wrangling, machine learning

  • Technical knowledge of the Salesforce platform

  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.)

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $165,060 to $220,850.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
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$165.1K - $220.8K/yr (Outscal est.)
$193.0K/yr avg.
San Francisco, California, United States

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