Overview

Join to apply for the Solution Engineer - DACH (f/m/d) role at Contentful.

This is a customer-facing role focused on enabling sales through infrastructural/architectural discovery, collaborative solution design, and technical validation. Solution Engineers may travel up to 50% of the time and will work with teams around the world, from visionary brands to innovative digital agencies.

What to expect

Our Solution Engineers are close partners of our sales team and own key components of the sales process including infrastructural/architectural discovery, collaborative solution design, and technical validation. This role may involve up to 50% travel to the office and/or customer locations.

Responsibilities

• This is a customer-facing role with travel up to 50% of your time.
• Work directly with Commercial Account Executives to support DACH customers
• Support the sales team in helping prospects understand what’s possible with Contentful and how it compares to legacy technologies
• Understand prospects' project requirements, validate these requirements against our platform, and identify/mitigate technical and business risks
• Create product demonstrations and assist with technical evaluations to show how Contentful solves business problems and integrates into a prospect’s technology stack
• Communicate prospect and customer needs and product feedback to product management, marketing, and sales
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers to ensure newly-signed customers successfully implement and launch their projects

What You Need To Be Successful

• Fluency in English and German
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple opportunities and teams
• 3-5 years of experience as a Sales/Solution Engineer/Architect or Solution Consultant for a cloud-based, growth-oriented PaaS or SaaS company; or 5-10 years as a developer working on digital experience delivery with marketing tech platforms focused on CMS, Commerce, Personalisation, etc.
• Strong presentation skills to clearly convey business and technical knowledge to both marketing-focused and technical-focused personas
• Proven experience with current web technologies (JavaScript frameworks, static site generators, REST APIs, CDNs, CI/CD, etc.)
• Emotional intelligence to navigate meetings with multiple customer stakeholders
• Curiosity about how technology drives change and delivers business value

Highly Desired But Not Essential

• Experience with Content Management Platforms or similar MarTech
• Experience with solution selling methodologies and/or value-based selling
• Understanding of MACH concepts andComposable architectures relative to Contentful’s product

What’s in it for you?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping how people build digital experiences
• Stock options for employees to share in company success
• Fertility and family building benefits with a lifetime reimbursable wallet
• Strong focus on work-life balance with generous paid time off, including vacation, sick days, education days, compassion days, and volunteer days
• Time off to care for your growing family
• Personal annual education budget to grow your skills
• Virtual and in-person events, workshops, guest speakers, and team activities
• Annual wellbeing stipend for healthful living
• Monthly phone/internet stipend and hardware upgrade reimbursement
• New hire equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees

Who are we?

Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, with hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, New York, and distributed locations worldwide.

Everyone is welcome here! Contentful is committed to an inclusive environment and equal opportunity employment. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, or length of unemployment. If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiting coordinator know.

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