Sales Engineer (German Speaking)
Make an impact when it matters most
Everbridge is a fast-growing global provider of SaaS-based critical communications and enterprise safety solutions. Our technology helps organizations communicate effectively, coordinate action, and manage critical events.
We’re looking for a German speaking Sales Engineer to join our team in a fully remote, home-based role anywhere in Germany.
As a Sales Engineer, you’ll be the primary pre-sales technical partner for our Account Executives, working with some of our largest and most complex customers and prospects. You’ll engage with business leaders, technical stakeholders, and C-level executives to demonstrate how the Everbridge Critical Event Management (CEM) platform can solve real business challenges and deliver measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Executives as their primary technical pre-sales resource.
- Support the discovery phase by uncovering customer needs, priorities, and challenges.
- Present the Everbridge CEM platform and vision to technical, business, and C-level audiences.
- Deliver tailored solution demonstrations that connect customer challenges to clear business outcomes.
- Facilitate technical workshops and manage pilots aligned to defined customer objectives.
- Create high-level functional specifications for customizations and third-party integrations, supporting the Everbridge Professional Services team.
- Demonstrate the Everbridge REST API and answer detailed questions about product capabilities, architecture, security, and delivery infrastructure.
- Position Everbridge Professional Services to ensure high-quality solution delivery.
- Train the sales team and create enablement and support materials.
- Respond to the functional and technical sections of RFIs, RFPs, and security questionnaires.
- Represent Everbridge at company events, industry trade shows, and customer webinars.
- Feed customer insights and industry trends into the product request for enhancement process.
- Support the delivery of Professional Services for a targeted number of billable days per quarter, as defined in the annual compensation plan.
Required skills
- Fluency in spoken and written German is essential.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- At least five years’ experience in enterprise software sales and services in a customer-facing pre-sales role.
- A consultative approach and the ability to translate customer needs into compelling, solution-based demonstrations.
- Strong discovery, questioning, presentation, and storytelling skills.
- The ability to build trusted relationships and develop customer champions.
- Confidence engaging and evangelizing solutions with C-level audiences.
- Strong knowledge of internet-hosted applications, highly available architectures, computer security, telephony, and networking.
- Technical understanding of relational data structures, XML/SOAP, middleware architectures, and REST APIs.
- Experience with solution-based and consultative/value-based selling techniques.
- The adaptability to tailor technical presentations and discussions to different audiences and customer challenges.
- The ability to prepare and deliver detailed product and technical presentations at short notice, with professionalism and confidence.
- Excellent organization and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing sales-support and Professional Services priorities.
- A creative, solutions-oriented approach to removing sales obstacles.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and web-based applications.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to combine technical expertise, commercial insight, and customer engagement in a role with genuine visibility and impact. You’ll help organizations understand how Everbridge can support them during their most critical moments, while working alongside experienced sales and services professionals in a fast-paced global environment.