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Twilio

Head of Solutions Engineering, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Because you belong at Twilio

The Who, What, Where and Why

Twilio is growing rapidly and seeking a technical leader for our Sales organization. This role will partner with the RVP/Country Director for Japan. You will help to set the strategy and direction for our technical engagement in the sales cycle. You will also take a hands-on approach to coaching and helping your team run with new opportunities. This position is critical to ensuring the continued success of Twilio’s growth in Japan!

Who?

Twilio is looking for a Head of Solutions Engineering who lives the Twilio Magic and has a demonstrated track record of frontline customer-facing technical leadership. We seek someone with:

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  • Strong team leadership ability is required, with 3+ years' experience as a direct manager of teams in a customer-facing pre-sales technical role.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching Solutions Engineers to have empathy for and influence with customer technical architects moving their enterprise information systems to the cloud
  • Experience with strategic planning and setting strategies for Technical Sales teams and advising non-Technical Sales teams
  • Hands on approach to problem solving. Always ready to handle customer blocking issues and work opportunities directly alongside your team. 
  • A strong understanding of the new business sales cycle, as well as experience in the technology areas relevant to Twilio’s market: contact center, IP-based telephony, messaging, real-time communications, scaling web and mobile applications.
  • A world class communicator. Confident in influencing and engaging with a highly skilled and experienced audience including C-level executives.
  • Cross-functional experience in post-sales technical consulting, software engineering, or product management a plus
  • Experience in consumption-based developer platforms also a plus 
  • Professional working proficiency in English a must
  • Travel expected once the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided

What?

As the Head of Solutions Engineering, you will live the Twilio Magic values:

  • BE AN OWNER: Partner with sales leadership to set our strategy for finding, closing and supporting new opportunities and expanding the Twilio footprint in our existing customer base.
  • BE INCLUSIVE: Work across functions to ensure collaboration for shared goals
  • DRAW THE OWL: Build and roll out programs that facilitate scaling
  • EMPOWER OTHERS: Attract, develop, and motivate a team of hard-working Solutions Engineers, continually educating your team and seeking innovative solutions for improving your team
  • WRITE IT DOWN: Technical strategy – Determine what role Solutions Engineers should play in closing new business, and how to deploy the existing resources most effectively.
  • WRITE IT DOWN: Measure and communicate results – use data to communicate results and make decisions
  • RUTHLESSLY PRIORITIZE: Ensure that your team has the support that they need to be successful as well as providing direct mentoring and guidance on a day to day basis
  • WEAR THE CUSTOMER’S SHOES: Engage with Product, Support, Sales, Operations, Legal, Security, Engineering, and every single other department as necessary to make your customers successful on our platform

Why?

The Solutions Engineering team is critical to Twilio’s continued revenue growth and plays a crucial role in the success of sales at Twilio. Bringing new customers on board to our platform requires excellent technical understanding and communication and close partnership with the Sales team. Rapidly growing the footprint of Twilio in our existing customer base requires building deep technical partnerships with our strategic customers.  Twilio’s API driven approach to powering communications allows for nearly unlimited variety of use cases which leads to constant technical learning and exploration. Solutions Engineering is essential to drive our continued success in bringing on new customers with all sorts of use cases onto our platform.

Twilio is a company that is empowering the world’s developers with modern communication in order to build better applications. Twilio is truly unique; we are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development and your entire employee experience.  We only win when our employees succeed, and we're dedicated to helping you develop your strengths. We invest in weeks dedicated to tackling hard problems and crafting your own ideas. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion and innovation, and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.

Where?

This position is based at Twilio’s office in Tokyo. For now, it’s virtual. When the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, we expect this leader to be in the office or visiting customers 3+ days per week. 

Twilio offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your loved ones. No matter where you are based, you will experience a company that believe in s in small teams for maximum impact; seeks well-rounded talent to ensure a full perspective on our customers’ experience,  understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture that empowers everyone to do their best work and be the best version of themselves.

About us:

Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.

Job ID: 2586771
Employment Type: Other

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