Pre-Sales Deployed Engineer
Clera
WorldwideremotePosted 18 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Salary: $108,000 – $140,000 USD annually
- Level Required: 1+ years of solutions or pre-sales engineering experience
- Key benefit: Visa sponsorship available
- Notable requirement: Fluent in both German and English
Role overview
Responsibilities
- Partner with sales to qualify opportunities and act as the primary technical advisor throughout the pre-sales cycle — from discovery through to a successful close.
- Run structured multi-week technical pilots with enterprise dev teams: lead kickoff calls, host regular office hours, and pair-program directly with customer engineers to demonstrate real-world value.
- Present the product's vision, benefits, and differentiators to audiences ranging from individual developers to C-suite executives.
- Deliver technical training sessions, live demos, and create customer-facing documentation, guides, and enablement resources.
- Build and maintain technical collateral (demos, blogs, videos, guides) tailored to enterprise use cases.
- Gather and synthesize customer feedback, feeding actionable insights back to Product and Engineering to influence the roadmap.
- Travel to customer sites and industry events as needed to support engagements.
Requirements
- 1+ years of solutions or pre-sales engineering experience for a technical product; developer tooling experience strongly preferred.
- Strong CS fundamentals — CS degree from a top programme or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Solid programming skills in at least one object-oriented language; comfortable pair-programming live with customer engineers.
- Fluency in both German and English.
- Hands-on experience with AI-powered developer tools (code completion, AI chat assistants, or similar LLM-based tools).
- Proven ability to deliver technical training, live demos, and create customer-facing documentation and enablement content.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites and events as required.
- A genuine interest in and aptitude for sales — high EQ, a closing mindset, and executive presence.
Nice to have
- Experience engaging and presenting to C-suite and executive stakeholders.
- Track record of successful enterprise software deployments or driving customer adoption initiatives.
- Experience gathering customer feedback to inform product roadmap decisions.
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship available.
- Salary: $108,000 – $140,000 USD annually (London-based; EUR-equivalent compensation may apply for Germany-based candidates).
Additional details
- A fast-growing, seed-stage AI developer tools company
- Rare hybrid role for engineers who can genuinely both code and sell
- Pre-Sales Deployed Engineer
- Based in London (German-speaking candidates also considered)
- 100% on-site five days a week in London
- This role is not for: Pure software engineers with no interest in sales or customer-facing work; Sales professionals who rely on others for technical depth; Solutions engineers who have historically outsourced technical work to separate support teams.
- This role is not open to: Germany-based candidates unless primary requirement is met via London presence