Marketing Cloud Solution Engineer - South Africa

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About Salesforce

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About the Position
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud Solutions Consulting team is a team of technology and business process experts who assist direct sales to prospects, customers, and partners by creating, packaging, and demonstrating innovative solutions for a client’s needs.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a market leader in digital marketing (email, sms, social and web), and a Pre Sales Engineer’s role is to weave together, in one solution, all components critical to a successful outbound marketing campaign – CRM, web analytics, data warehouses, offer management. Presenting to Director and C-Level executives in both Marketing and IT, the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Solutions Consultant must be energized and capable of delivering a powerful presentation and discussion of technology at all different levels of detail.

Requirements
• A consistent track record of success in a similar role
•Excellent presentation skills, comfortable presenting to a crowd of a thousand, a CMO, or two developers
•Thrive on change, ambiguity and autonomy
•Able to switch quickly between different modes of thinking and tasks
•A self-starter, highly creative in assembling different tools, able to manage and prioritise effectively
•Innovative – able to innovate effective toolsets for the team and customers
•Able to work with sales teams to understand and present a business case to clients – articulating a technical solution, highlighting the business benefits to the customer in a language they understand
•Have deep technical expertise in any of the following industries (digital marketing, enterprise data systems and analytics, business intelligence, web analytics, CRM, enterprise search and content management systems)
•A working knowledge of proper web design – HTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, and Ajax – or willing and able to learn quickly
•Know SQL and RDBMS design well enough to instill confidence in the most demanding of DBAs
•Knowledgeable on the latest trends in web technologies and online marketing
Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core proficiencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
Fluency in English (fluency

It would be great if…
• You’ve worked for a SaaS computing company
• You’ve presented and sold to marketers before
• You’ve had experience with product design, development, or implementation

Diversity & Inclusion:
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Health Benefits
Financial Benefits and perks
Time off & leave policies
Parental benefits
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