Senior Sales Engineer

What You Bring (Required Qualifications):

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Analytics, Economics, Statistics, or a related highly quantitative technical discipline is required. A Master’s degree or professional technical certifications are a distinct advantage.
• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in technical presales, solution engineering, or a system architect/developer role within enterprise SaaS or complex software environments.
• Technical Fluency: Deep expertise with modern web and scripting technologies (e.g., Python, Node.js, JavaScript), REST/SOAP APIs, middleware frameworks, and cloud ecosystem architectures.
• AI/ML Expertise: Strong foundational knowledge of AI technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and autonomous agent deployment.
• Domain Knowledge: Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure, contact center tech stacks (CCaaS, telephony, workforce management), or modern IT Service Management (ITSM) systems.
• Travel Commitment: Ability and willingness to travel between 30% and 50% annually to lead critical, high-touch on-site customer architecture sessions and strategic regional briefings.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of designing reusable implementation guides, integration playbooks, or localization toolkits for global delivery partners and systems integrators.
• Experience flattening complex technical narratives into high-impact presentations tailored for executive, economic buyers and C-level stakeholders.

Who You Are:

• Customer obsessed: The customer comes first, and you believe that through and through. We are here to delight the customer with the ability to give them what they need in CX before they even know.
• A Builder First: You have a passion for code, deep system configurations, and getting your hands dirty building the future of software.
• Strategically Minded: You naturally tie advanced technical mechanisms directly to strategic business metrics, ROI, and organizational transformation.
• Resilient & Collaborative: You thrive in high-stakes environments, working cross-functionally across complex international teams to drive a unified go-to-market strategy.

The US annualized OTE (On Target Earnings) range for this position is $226,000.00-$338,000.00 with a pay mix of 80/20 (base/commission). This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.

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