Principal Solution Engineer
Salesforce7 days ago
Base Salary
$173k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with field Solutions Engineers to understand customer needs, close product gaps, and drive adoption of resulting assets.
- Build working prototypes ahead of general availability using AI-assisted coding tools.
- Engage strategic and executive-level customers to validate prototypes and pressure-test competitive positioning.
- Develop and maintain competitive-readiness materials, talk tracks, architecture decks, demo environments, and Customer Zero materials.
- Experiment with new AI capabilities and skills, including Slack skills, TabNext skills, and Beacon, and identify opportunities to scale them.
- Deliver demos and assets tailored to the distinct value drivers of Salesforce and Tableau buyers.
- Serve as a product subject-matter expert for Tableau Cloud and Tableau Desktop.
- Share field learnings across the Solutions Center of Excellence and contribute to scalable field tooling.
Requirements
- Several years of hands-on solutions engineering, sales engineering, or technical pre-sales experience, ideally with analytics, business intelligence, or data platforms.
- Deep, current expertise in Tableau Cloud and Tableau Desktop.
- Ability to independently build working technical prototypes, including with AI-assisted coding tools.
- Experience partnering with a field or sales organization to translate feedback into actionable product improvements.
- Ability to communicate technical gaps and opportunities clearly to field stakeholders.
- Experience with Tableau, Salesforce, or another enterprise data and analytics platform is preferred.
- Experience with Model Context Protocol-based integrations or agentic workflows is preferred.
- Experience contributing to structured field-to-product feedback loops is preferred.
- Experience supporting customers or colleagues outside the candidate’s home region is preferred.
Benefits
- Time-off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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