Sr. Sales Engineer

Company: Marqeta, Inc.
Location: Oakland
Posted on: February 15, 2021

Job Description:

Named as a Forbes Fintech 50 the last two years in a row, Marqeta powers innovative payment solutions for many of the apps and services you enjoy daily. Our modern card issuing platform, open API, and advanced analytics provide unprecedented control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions and manage payment operations in real-time. We are a team of industry experts and technology innovators who take a dynamic approach to solving challenging problems. We power possibilities for our customers by bringing the best talent together in an open and collaborative work environment that rewards creativity and perseverance. Marqeta is proud of its Oakland roots and Denver growth plans and strives to build a global team as diverse as the markets we serve, staying true to our values: Connect the Customer, Everyone Belongs, Marqeta Cares, Lead Innovation, Deliver Results, Quality First and Build One Marqeta. We are not expecting any single candidate to meet all job requirements listed below, so please apply. It's an exciting time to join Marqeta. As we grow, your career and opportunities will grow as well. Position Summary Marqeta is looking for a highly driven, rock star Sales Engineer who will support the Business Development and Partnerships teams at Marqeta. You will engage with new--customer opportunities, help respond to inbound--opportunities, and work closely with our account executives to shepherd deals from opening through to contract and closing stage. Beyond pre-sales, you'll be expected to play a supporting role to our technical onboarding team as customers integrate to our platform, go live and, ramp. The Business Development team--plays a vital role in growing Marqeta's revenue and increasing the overall--portfolio of our--partnerships. We are looking for a sales engineer whose professional DNA is rooted in both Technology and Sales. Your work--will inevitably include networking to build relationships, contributing to--sales presentations, workflow--modeling, solution design, and ensuring our customers fully grasp--the value in our platform. Key to this role is an ability to understand Marqeta's technology, expertly communicate its benefits, and win the trust of the product and technology teams of--our potential partners.-- You'll be collaborating--closely with other key players on the Marqeta team, including Technology, Product, Customer Success, Risk, Legal, and Operations.-- We're looking for someone who knows payments and loves payments technology, but who also could have fashioned themselves a sales and BD executive. While you don't have to have direct card issuing experience, we strongly prefer someone who understands the payments ecosystem, particularly on the issuing side. Primary Responsibilities This role is about generating and closing new opportunities while playing a key role supporting--the Revenue Team - here are a few key expectations:

• Know the Tech:-- Quickly get up to speed on Marqeta's technical capabilities. Understand the unique features and customer benefits our platform offers and how to speak with confidence, knowledge, and credibility about what we bring to our customers. This is likely to include sitting in on our product and technology teams' regular meetings. Serve as the business development liaison as the "voice of our customers" when engaging with--product and technology.
• Support the Sales Process:-- From your first day, you will be expected to work on--real customer opportunities through a sales process, from initial engagement to pricing discussions to final contract negotiations. Use your functional payment knowledge to educate, problem-solve, and deliver guidance to our customers. At any given time, you may be supporting--as many as 20 - 30--opportunities in various stages of that process.
• Engage with Customer Opportunities : You're someone who must love working with customers. Your audience will be with our customers'--developers, product managers, engineers, and business heads. Our BD team will rely on you to ensure the key technical influencers of our customers (and potential customers) deeply understand our technology, what makes it different and better than that of our competitors, and how to quickly get integrated and live.-- Trendspotting : As you engage with customers and our team, we think you'll have the best vantage point from which to spot key trends, emerging customer needs, and gaps in the market where Marqeta can have an advantage.-- Requirements This is a role for a payments technology expert, ideally with real experience on the issuing side of the payment ecosystem. We're on the hunt for the following attributes:
  • 3+ years' experience in a relevant Sales Engineer role in card payments
  • Understand how to support--the sales cycle from lead to opportunity to live account
  • Familiarity and ease with technology, B2B technology applications, and how payments technology platforms serve customer businesses
  • Strong--understanding of the payment ecosystem, with bonus points for knowing the issuing side. Self-proclaimed payment nerds are encouraged.
  • Ability to prioritize, manage, and deliver on multiple projects simultaneously; highly motivated and able to work against aggressive schedules
  • Superior communication skills (interpersonal, verbal, presenting, and written)
  • Positive attitude, team player, adaptable, resourceful, and self-starter who is able to work independently
  • Bachelor's Degree required
  • Rich suite of benefit plans; employee premiums paid 100%
  • Flexible Time Off--
  • Full paid Parental Leave
  • 401k plan with a Company match
  • Competitive pay
  • Meaningful equity
  • Monthly stipend--
  • Bi-annual "Hack Week" to support and reward innovation
  • Open, transparent culture that includes All Hands meetings, Lunch-and-Learns, all-company offsites, etc.
  • Access to corporate gym membership rates, other discounts and employee perks
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