Lead Solution Engineer

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About the Role We're looking for an experienced and strategic Solution Engineer to join our Enterprise SE team, partnering with some of Australia's largest and most innovative organisations across sectors such as Professional Services, Retail, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Transport, Health and more.. This is a high-impact, customer-facing role where you'll partner with Account Executives and cross-functional teams to drive success across the entire customer lifecycle — from initial land and revenue growth, through to adoption, consumption management, attrition risk mitigation, and renewal. You'll bring deep industry expertise and a passion for helping Enterprise customers unlock transformational value from Salesforce — including the rapidly evolving frontier of AI-powered selling, service, and operations through Agentforce and the broader c360 portfolio.

This is a unique opportunity to join a team trusted with some of the most high-profile, high-impact digital transformations in the region. If you thrive on variety, depth, and building the future of enterprise solutions, we’d love to hear from you. What You'll Do Support the full customer lifecycle: new account onboarding and ACV growth, consumption health monitoring, attrition risk identification, and renewal and expansion motions Champion the adoption of AI tools and Agentic capabilities — including Agentforce — helping customers understand, envision, and activate autonomous AI agents across their business processes Guide customers on their journey to becoming an Agentic Enterprise — where AI agents work alongside humans to automate complex workflows, personalise experiences at scale, and drive measurable business outcomes Orchestrate complex, multi-cloud engagements across cross-functional SE teams including co-primes, overlay specialists, and partners Build and maintain trusted relationships with sales leaders, RSDs, and senior customer stakeholders Create and share reusable enablement assets, demo innovations, and best practices to scale impact across the broader SE community Mentor and coach junior SE team members, contributing to onboarding and skills development Represent Salesforce externally at industry events, executive briefings, and customer innovation forums A Typical Day in the Life Connect with your AE partners to align on account priorities, pipeline health, and upcoming customer moments Run a strategic discovery session with an Enterprise customer, uncovering business challenges and mapping them to Salesforce and AI solutions Build and deliver powerful solution demonstrations, prototypes, and POCs to validate ideas and inspire confidence in execution Collaborate with the team to build a new sales play or solution asset for the Enterprise team.

Review a renewal account's consumption data and advise on strategies to improve adoption and reduce attrition risk Coach a junior SE on demo technique, value selling, or customer engagement Who You Are Experience within or around technology projects and transformations Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to engage both deeply technical teams and C-level executives Practical understanding of modern application architectures, integration patterns, and cloud platform capabilities A bias for action — comfortable prototyping ideas, working hands-on with product, and learning new tools to bring solutions to life Strong understanding of — and enthusiasm for — AI, Agentic AI, and the role of autonomous agents in transforming enterprise operations Strong value-selling skills — you lead with business outcomes and customer priorities, not features and functions Ability to engage and influence executive-level audiences; skilled at reading the room and adapting your message Preferred Qualifications: Deep knowledge of the Salesforce platform and Customer 360 portfolio Salesforce Certifications Previous experience as a solution/sales engineer for a CRM company or similar technology Relevant Industry experience with Travel, Transport and Hospitality AND OR Retail and Consumer Goods Industries, exposure to Salesforce will be a plus but not mandatory Hands-on experience with Agentforce, Einstein AI, or equivalent AI-powered platforms is highly regarded Even if you don’t tick every box above, we’d still love to hear from you — especially if you bring unique experience or perspective that could benefit the team. Benefits We are pioneers of the Pledge 1% model, providing product, grants and community service to those in need. We are proud to be#1 in PEOPLE's Top 50 Companies that Care , and are on Fortune’s Change the World list.

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Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world. Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form .

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