You're a Sales What? Life as a Sales Engineer

For women looking to make a mid-career change into tech, few know that sales engineering is a great way to make that move. In this talk, Melissa Andrews (Sales Engineering Manager at Splunk) introduces you to the sales engineering career. girlgeek.io/life-as-a-sales-e...
She provides tips for those thinking about entering the presales field. You'll learn how the role's responsibilities might vary based on the size and stage of the company, what an average day in the life of a Sales Engineer might look like, and some key traits that can make you a great fit for the role!
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[@athomewithsareeta]

This should be a the top of UA-cam search engine... Now I have a basic understanding like no other 💕🙌🏾💕👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

[@TonyMoze]

Awesome to hear the stories and journeys of Sales Engineers!

[@parise9505]

This was so helpful to understand a job role I have been offered abroad based on networking in University. Thank you Melissa for such a great breakdown of information in such a short period of time and thank you Girl Geek for providing the platform!

[@sekinaherskine5073]

Been looking into this as a career. Great interview! So informative & inspiring!

[@promise7407]

Thank you for this!!!!!

[@arianaamores7147]

Thanks beautiful ❤this was so helpful

[@freedomwithrho]

Thank you for this!
I’m looking for a new career. And would love to bridge healthcare with this.
QUESTION: do you find the customers on your own? Or your company brings you potential customers

[@rajbiswas776]

There is a different team which does that, they are generally called Sales Dev Reps(SDR) or Business Dev Rep(BDR). There are generally times when the SDRs will me mapped to a Account Executive(AE), he is your sales guy who talks all the commercials, does all the negotiations, customers see him as the sales man, where as the SE or SA is there to get the technical win using all the skills she talked about. Customers will buy because the trust you.