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When selling a technical product, how do you work with sales engineering and how might that differ from working with sales reps?

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  1. Jen Vaccaro McParland

    Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations • 1y

    The most effective ways to work with sales engineering for a technical product include: Build reference architectures: Have your PMM, Technical Marketing, or PM teams document example architectures and proofs of concept that have won with customers for key uses cases. Create a hub for hosting these. Document templates: For technical products, it’s critical to host a repository of templates that have won. For example, automation and orchestration products often have many types of use cases with c ...Read More

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  2. John Heywood
    John Heywood

    Scale AI Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Twitter, Salesforce, Planet Labs, Braze • 1y

    Great question - and one that I think about daily! While I engage each team a bit differently, I still think of Sales and Sales Engineering (or Solutions Consultants) as parts of the same org and team, each playing different roles at different stages of a deal cycle. As Account Execs are almost always engaging in a deal cycle ahead of an SE or SolCon, I always prioritize some level of technical fluency with Sales Reps. To be clear, this does not mean they have to know our documentation inside ou ...Read More

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