About Cognite
Learn more about Cognite here
Our values
Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.
Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.
Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
As a Solution Engineer, you will help customers solve their highest-priority data problems by applying your pre-sales technical skills and passion to lead businesses to the new world of Industrial DataOps.
This position is a hybrid role out of our Houston or Austin office. It isn't a fully remote role.
What You'll Do
- Lead your clients through evaluating and adopting Cognite Data Fusion and Cognite’s Industry Applications
- Be the technical product expert for customers and stay up-to-date on the competitive landscape
- Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-to documents, and demo applications
- Engage with the technical community (customer and internal) by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups
- With the incorporation of Value Selling techniques, qualify prospects; develop success criteria for demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and pilots; system builds, and sales cycle win plans; lead demonstrations and demonstration development; and contribute to delivering proof-of-concepts and pilots.
- In conjunction with Business Development Directors, you will contribute to account strategy and form deep client relationships throughout your assigned territory to achieve technical and business value
- Assist sales in responding to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs
- Share best practices within the Cognite technical community and drive cross-functional collaboration across the company
- Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions, particularly product management and marketing
- Travel around 50%
Who You Are
- Bilingual in Spanish and English is required
- 5+ years of relevant experience in a customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role for a SaaS company, with a deep understanding of the data analytics ecosystem
- Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
- Experience working hands on in the data lake, data warehouse, data management, business intelligence and/or data science segments
- 2+ years of Asset Heavy industry experience in a customer or working with customers where you’ve gained deep value chain expertise in one or more of the following operational areas:
- Oil & Gas Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream,
- Process Manufacturing
- Power (generation, transmission, distribution) or Renewables
- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
- Detail oriented, strong relationship-building skills and a focus on being viewed as the customer’s trusted solution advisor
- Experience with Value Selling or other solution selling methodologies
- Self-starter & superb time management & prioritization skills
- Ability to work under pressure and work on multiple projects individually as well as being part of different teams
- Comfortable programming and debugging at least one of Python, Scala, Java, or Javascript
- AWS, Azure, and/or GCP certifications a plus
- Start-up experience (Series A, B, or C)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience through demonstrable work experience
Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
- Competitive Compensation including base plus bonus
- 401(k) with 4% employer matching
- Health, Dental, Vision & Disability Coverages with premiums fully covered for employees and all dependents
- Unlimited PTO + flexibility to enjoy it
- 18 Company Holidays including the week between Christmas & New Years
- Paid Parental Leave Program
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Employee Referral Program
- Company Paid Friday Lunch via DoorDash + Fully Stocked Fridges in the offices
- Join a team of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.
- A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
- Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
- Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
- Paid mobile phone and WiFI
- A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot 🐶!
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
* Competitive Compensation including base plus bonus
* 401(k) with 4% employer matching
* Health, Dental, Vision & Disability Coverages with premiums fully covered for employees and all dependents
* Unlimited PTO + flexibility to enjoy it
* 18 Company Holidays including the week between Christmas & New Years
* Paid Parental Leave Program
* Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
* Employee Referral Program
* Company Paid Friday Lunch via DoorDash + Fully Stocked Fridges in the offices
* Join a team of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.
* A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @
cognitedata 📷 to know more
* Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
* Join our
HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
* Paid mobile phone and WiFI
*A pet lover? Get the chance to meet
Spot 🐶!
Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀
* Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world.
* We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives
business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day.
Apply today!
If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team.
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