Principal Sales Engineer

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Job Summary

Job Description

This role is for an ambitious, solution-oriented salesperson with a strong technical background, focusing on expanding relationships with existing customers in the transportation industry. The Principal Sales Engineer will drive revenue through pre-sales solution consultancy and compelling sales solutions, becoming an expert in Cerence's futuristic Gen AI driven product range for advanced AI-powered mobility solutions.
Must have:
  • Understand customer business needs and technical requirements.
  • Position Cerence innovations, products, and solutions.
  • Lead solution definitions and RFQ/RFI responses.
  • Manage effort and cost estimates, and statements of work.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Design and deliver customer presentations and demos.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering context.
  • Experience in software development.
  • Familiarity with infotainment and SaaS.
  • Over 5 years in automotive industry (OEMs, Tier 1s).
  • Customer-facing and customer-focused approach.
  • High proficiency in Japanese and English communication.
  • Willingness to travel.
  • Proficient computer user.
Good to have:
  • Master's degree
  • Experience with speech solutions

Job Details

A Moving Experience.

  • A Moving Experience.

We have an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious, solution-orientated salesperson with a strong technical background to join our expanding team. The role will focus on expanding our relationships with existing customers in the transportation industry whilst providing further revenue opportunities through pre-sales solution consultancy and compelling sales solutions. You will become an expert in our futuristic Gen AI driven product range which shapes the way our customers enable advanced AI-powered mobility solutions for the transportation space.

  • Responsibilities
  • Work directly with our customers (OEM’s, Tier 1’s) primarily in the automotive industry and adjacent markets such as 2-wheeler or trucks, also on-site, to understand their business needs, value drivers and technical requirements
  • Position Cerence innovations, products, solutions, and services accordingly
  • Lead and manage:
  • Solution definitions
  • RFQ / RFI responses
  • Effort and cost estimates
  • Creation of statements of work
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate with internal stakeholders from account management, professional services and engineering organizations, as well as external stakeholders from customer side
  • Design and provide presentations to customers, selling value propositions and solutions based on the corresponding technical setup
  • Present product and solution demos to customers
  • Requirements
  • University bachelor’s degree with engineering context (masters is a plus)
  • Experience in software development
  • Familiarity with infotainment and software as a service
  • 5 years + experiences in the automotive industry (OEM’s, Tier 1’s)
  • Customer-facing experience, customer focused approach
  • High proficiency in oral and written communication/presentation skills in Japanese and English
  • Willingness to travel
  • Strong team-player, self-motivated
  • Proficient computer user
  • Experiences with speech solutions are a plus but not a requirement

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in the workplace. This includes:

  • Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
  • Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
  • Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
  • Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
  • Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.
  • Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).
  • Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.

About Us

At Cerence AI, we help the world's leading automotive and technology brands leverage AI to create safer, more productive and more joy-filled brand and user experiences. We're looking for motivated, collaborative individuals who come alive with big challenges and are excited about AI's potential to shape the future of how people experience the world.

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About The Company

We’re creating moving experiences for vehicles around the world. We’re Cerence. We utilize sophisticated A.I. and sensor data to entertain, inform and delight drivers and passengers. Whether it’s voice, gesture, gaze or touch technologies, the experience is the sum of the parts. Raise windows with a quick glance, hear a restaurant review with the point of a finger, display an augmented reality cityscape on a windshield, drive with just the sound of your voice.The future is connected cars, autonomous driving, ride sharing and e-vehicles.

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