Posted:
Feb 5, 2019

Director of Sales Engineering (Twilio)

Job Title

Director of Sales Engineering

Company

Twilio

Location

San Francisco, CA

Description

Because you belong at Twilio

The Who, What, Where and Why

Twilio is growing rapidly and seeking a Sales Engineering Director to be a key leader in bringing in new business within the enterprise customer segment. This role will set the strategy and direction for our technical engagement in the new business sales cycle at Twilio, while also taking a hands on approach to coaching and helping your team run with new opportunities. This role will work closely with all levels of the Sales leadership team to shape how our Enterprise AE teams execute. This position is critical to ensuring the continued success of our sales team.

Who?

Twilio is looking for a Director with a demonstrated track record of customer-facing technical leadership. We seek someone with:

  • Typically 8-10 plus years in a customer-facing technical role.
  • Strong team leadership ability is required, and prior experience as a direct manager of teams is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with strategic planning and setting strategies for Technical Sales teams and advising non-Technical Sales teams
  • Experience building programs that have impact and reach across teams
  • Hands on approach to problem solving. Always ready to work opportunities directly alongside your team when needed.
  • Ability and desire to teach both Sales Engineers and Account Executives
  • A strong understanding of the new business sales cycle, as well as experience in the technology areas relevant to Twilio’s market: contact center, IP-based telephony, messaging, real-time communications, scaling web and mobile applications.
  • A world class communicator. Confident influencing and engaging with a highly skilled and experienced audience including C-level executives.
  • Typically 20-30% travel. The Enterprise SE team is distributed regionally with core hubs in San Francisco and New York.

What?

As Sales Engineering Director, you will:

  • Partner with New Business sales leadership to set our strategy for finding, closing and supporting new opportunities.
  • Works across functions to ensure collaboration for shared goals
  • Builds and roll out programs that facilitate scaling
  • Attract, develop, and motivate a team of high-performing Sales Engineers, continually educating your team and seeking innovative solutions for improving your team
  • Technical strategy – determine what role sales engineers should play in closing new business, and how to deploy the existing resources most effectively.
  • Measure and communicate results – use data to communicate results and make decisions.
  • Ensure that your team has the support that they need to be successful as well as providing direct coaching and guidance on a day to day basis
  • Engage with Product, Support, Sales, Operations, Legal, Security, Engineering, and every single other department as necessary to make your customers successful on our platform

Why?

The Enterprise Sales team is critical to Twilio’s continued revenue growth and Sales Engineering plays a crucial role in the success of sales at Twilio. Bringing new customers on board to our platform requires excellent technical understanding and communication and close partnership with the Sales team. Twilio’s API driven approach to powering communications allows for nearly unlimited variety of use cases which leads to constant technical learning and exploration. Sales Engineering is essential to drive our continued success in bringing on new customers with all sorts of use cases onto our platform.

Twilio is a company that is empowering the world’s developers with modern communication in order to build better applications. Twilio is truly unique; we are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development and your entire employee experience.  We only win when our employees succeed and we're dedicated to helping you develop your strengths. We invest in weeks dedicated to tackling hard problems and creating your own ideas. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.

Where? 

This position will be located in our office at 375 Beale Street in San Francisco. You will enjoy our office perks: catered meals, snacks, game room, ergonomic desks, massages, Wednesday dinners, bi-weekly All Hands and more. What you will also get to experience is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; seeks well-rounded talent to ensure a full perspective on our customers’ experience,  understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture where everyone is able to do and be the best version of themselves.

How to Apply

 

If interested, please reach out to Reema Naqvi (MIMS 2017) and she'll be happy to chat about the role and/or submit a referral. There are also other relevant positions (engineering, user design, product management, data science) on Twilio's website ( https://www.twilio.com/company/jobs) so go check them out!

Notes

We have three MIMS alum working at Twilio: Reema Naqvi, Ricky Holtz, and Ankita Bhosle, if you're interested in reaching out to chat!

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Software Development
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Software Development
Last updated: September 11, 2020