Remote

Sales Engineer

NOKIA
US Annual Base Salary Range: $112,650 - $209,208 USD Plus, potential incentive/variable compensation for eligible roles.
remote work
United States
Mar 19, 2025
Join our Network Infrastructure Cloud Majors and Strategic Enterprise team as a Sales Engineer, where you'll thrive in a dynamic, remote work environment with substantial travel opportunities. Collaborate closely with our sales team to craft compelling offers for innovative products, services, and solutions. Your technical expertise will directly influence customer buying decisions, helping to identify new business opportunities while delivering in-depth presentations and demonstrations to clients. You'll engage with external clients, understand their business strategies, and position our cutting-edge solutions to drive impactful results. Embrace a consultative selling approach that focuses on future technologies, all while being part of a motivated team aimed at making Nokia the go-to systems partner for critical networks. Enjoy a competitive sales incentive plan and contribute to transformative projects that make a real difference! Lead in-depth technical discussions and conduct product demonstrations, lab evaluations, and network trials to showcase Nokia's innovative solutions. Collaborate with the Sales team to evaluate and develop business opportunities at the regional and sub-regional level. Serve as a subject-matter expert, engaging customers to present tailored technical solutions and articulating the associated value clearly. Build and manage relationships with customers at all organizational levels, facilitating both top-down and bottom-up sales initiatives. Identify customer requirements and effectively communicate insights to internal pricing teams for optimal proposal development. Analyze internal and external business challenges to recommend best practices that enhance products, processes, and services. Provide comprehensive pre-sales and post-sales engineering support to ensure customer satisfaction and success. Travel up to 50% for customer engagements, collaborative strategy sessions, and representation of Nokia at industry events. You have: At least 6 years of technical pre-sales experience, including leading customer engagements, meetings and internal strategies, in the telecommunications (IP, and/or Fixed Networks) industry At least 6 years' networking experience, including IP, Optical or data center-related technologies. In-depth knowledge of IP networking and architectures Experienced in building large networks Expertise in protocols including OSPF, ISIS, BGP and MPLS Candidates must have hands-on experience on major network vendor equipment. Demonstrated success in challenging customer-facing roles; ability to build positive relationships and serve as the primary technical face of Nokia Proven experience in complex selling environments, driving consistent strategy across multiple customer sets. It would be nice if you also had: Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience. Advanced expertise in Linux and DevOps skill sets. Experience selling Data Center NIP accounts. Major vendor certification (routing, security, cloud, virtualization). Experienced with Cisco, Juniper, AWS, Palo Alto, etc. Come create the technology that helps the world act together Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world. We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work What we offer Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered. Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality: One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg Workplace Pride Global Benchmark At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia's employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect. Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.