See yourself at Twilio

Join the team as Twilio’s next Principal Presales Engineer.

About the job

The Twilio Solutions Engineer is both highly technical and a skilled executive relationship builder. They are comfortable showing an engaging communications experience to a CEO or sketching out a flow on a whiteboard with technical decision makers.
This position is needed to deliver the technical win and product fit to our customers across APJ and in particular focusing on Mandarin speaking customers across the region. A Twilio Communications Solutions Engineer is an experienced pre-sales engineer who builds customer trust in Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform, resulting in customer success at our largest, most strategic accounts. The Solutions Engineer leads the technical pre-sales relationship, proposes technical architectures, demonstrates the product, anticipates concerns, and provides creative solutions to our customers' most complex communications and customer engagement challenges and needs.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• • Work alongside Twilio Strategic and New business Account Executives, other Twilio Solutions Engineers, Professional Services and Twilio Partners as needed through the pre-sales process, to strategise and plan for deal success. 
  • Take part alongside Account Executives in qualification, discovery, demonstrations, Proof-of-Concept, RFP response, design documentation, technical presentations and enablement sessions during the sales cycle.
  • Develop subject matter expertise on the customer needs and requirements, and Twilio’s best in class communications technology. 
  • Lead technical discovery sessions with our customers to uncover their needs and challenges to articulate Twilio’s ability to enable their success and solve their challenges. 
  • Build and present powerful and complex presentations and product demos to help showcase the capabilities of Twilio Communications Products 
  • Support Key strategic Pilot and Proof-of-Concept implementations in our largest, most strategic Enterprise accounts across the APJ region

Qualifications 

Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

*Required:

• Native and business fluency in English & Japanese (speaking and writing) is desired to work with the English & Japanese speaking customers. 
• At least 3 years in a technical pre-sales role in CPaaS, SaaS or Telecom space
• Solid understanding and experience of the sales cycle and the role of a pre-sales engineer 
• Solid understanding of voice protocols (VoIP), SIP implementations or messaging APIs
• Creativity: you’ll need to be a problem solver, able to collaborate with others to drive success. 
• An engaging storyteller: you can gain audience confidence and communicate complex topics to multiple levels of technical and non-technical audience. 
• Ability to ask the right questions to build a deep understanding of a customer's needs and guide them to a technical solution using Twilio Communications products  
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) and cloud application architectures
• Experience writing code in one or more of the following areas, multiple areas of experience would be advantageous:
  • Backend (Java, C#, Node.js, Python or PHP)
  • Web (JS, React)
  • Experience with designing and consuming REST APIs

Desired:

• Hands on experience with with backend development (Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP, etc)
• Familiarity with Mobile development, especially for iOS and Android.
• Previous experience in Telecommunications, SIP, WebRTC, or Contact Centre in a technical role
• Experience with automation, cloud-native development and skills with a major cloud platform. 
• Experience with sales methodologies

Location

This role will be remote, and based in Japan.

Travel 

We prioritise connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, approximately 35% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way.

What We Offer

Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.

Why Dialpad

Dialpad’s Agentic AI platform turns conversations into autonomous workflows that drive revenue, efficiency, and unforgettable customer experiences. Fortune 1000 companies trust our AI Voice & Digital Agents to resolve millions of interactions every day. We’re scaling fast and need Forward Deployed Engineers who want to be at the intersection of innovation and business impact.

Your Role

The primary purpose of our Forward Deployed Engineering team is to accelerate the adoption and realization of value from our AI platform by embedding within our most strategic customer accounts. You will be the crucial link that translates complex business challenges into production ready, high-impact Agentic AI systems, driving business outcomes. FDE’s will act as the company's most technically fluent business consultant and the customer's most trusted AI architects. 

What We Do

• Business Translation and Discovery: Rapidly embed with customer stakeholders and operational leaders to deeply understand their most complex, high-stakes business problems. Translate ambiguous business objectives into clear, shippable Agentic AI-powered solutions.

• The Go-To-Market Bridge: Partner directly with our Sales, Sales Engineers, Professional Services and Customer Success teams to serve as the deep technical authority during critical pre-sales evaluations and post-sales deployments. You don't just sell the vision, you build the capability that validates the investment.

• Product Alignment and Influence: Capture common customer pain points, successful integration patterns, and platform limitations discovered in the field. Synthesize and deliver this critical, high-value signal directly back to our core Product and Engineering teams to influence the product roadmap and accelerate feature development.

• AI Envisioning: Navigate complex enterprise infrastructure (cloud, on-prem, data pipelines) to integrate our platform. Guide customers on production grade Agentic bot builds and integration to custom data connectors, orchestration logic, and full-stack systems that bring AI to life.

• Agentic AI Design: Design and deploy complex multi-agent systems, architectures, and fine-tuned models tailored to the customer's unique data, domain, and security requirements. Author multi‑step prompts, retrieval pipelines, and decision logic that plug into CRMs, ERPs, and custom APIs via our MCP framework.

About You

• 4+ years of experience in a high-impact, customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Consulting, high touch Sales Engineering or Solutions Architecture, or technical consulting for SaaS/AI products.

• Deep, demonstrable expertise in the modern AI/ML stack: LLMs, Generative AI concepts, vector databases, and agent orchestration frameworks. Proficiency in Python, Go, JS/TS plus hands‑on experience with LLM frameworks.

• Unrivaled Business Acumen: The ability to simplify technical complexity and communicate clear trade-offs, value propositions, and project plans to both a core engineering team and a non-technical C-suite executive.

• You thrive in ambiguity, take full ownership of outcomes, and are driven by delivering tangible, measurable results for the customer, often working under tight timelines.

• Contributor to a dynamic team culture, focused on high growth industry innovation, team collaboration, customer success, and having fun!

• Business-level fluency in Japanese and English required. 

Bonus Points

• Telephony stack knowledge (WebRTC, SIP, SBCs).

• Experience deploying chatbots or voice bots at >10K daily conversations.

• Contributions to open‑source AI agent frameworks.

How We Work

Our values mirror those of top forward‑deployed orgs: Customer First, Relentless Momentum, Extreme Ownership, and One Team. We ship, learn, and iterate - fast.

So, what’s the role all about? 

NiCE is looking for an experienced Portfolio Pre-Sales Consultant to excite potential customers about its extensive portfolio and aid them in ultimately becoming a NiCE customer. A successful Solution Consultant will work consultatively with prospects to identify their goals and business drivers and creatively design a solution that will meet the ever-growing demands of their contact center needs. This position will provide dedicated sales support to the Enterprise and SMB sales teams by exceeding expectations. 

How will you make an impact?   

• Proactively identifying and addressing our customer's technical needs and objections to drive new sales, and existing account expansion. 

• Actively learning and mastering the NiCE software portfolio at an intermediate level, to creatively apply our technology and help our customers achieve their business goals. 

• Critically evaluating the technical sustainability of each new sales opportunity or Request for Proposal, ensuring that our contractual obligations to each new customer are accurate, and can be delivered in a timely manner. 

• Helping facilitate a smooth transition from pre-sales to implementation by providing adequate knowledge transfer regarding the scope and requirements of the project, ensuring a seamless onboarding experience. 

• Protecting NiCE from projects where technical challenges outweigh the value of a technically problematic opportunity, and long term partnership. 

• Assisting our Sales team through preparation and delivery of business discussions, technical presentations, and product demonstrations, by carefully mapping customer business requirements to effective value driven technical solutions leveraging the NiCE software portfolio. 

• Proactively identifying customer needs through a technical benefits assessment, carefully building the business value of the solution, in order to assist with overcoming potential objections to proposed technical solutions. 

• Meeting with our prospective customers as a trusted technical advisor, developing a deep understanding of their current environment, key business challenges and goals, and helping prospective customers envision the benefits that can be realized through an advanced contact center deployment with NICE. 

• Gathering valuable field data and product feedback from each customer engagement and working directly with Product Management to facilitate ideas for the long term technical direction and development of NiCE’s software portfolio. 

• Providing an open and continuous knowledge transfer to the overall Sales Team and newly hired SEs, highlighting the technical aspects and benefits of our solution, and how to competitively position each product. 

• Delivering partner enablement activities, ranging from ad-hoc updates to extended knowledge transfer sessions. 

• Building and maintaining demo environments both for internal NiCE usage and for our partners. 

• Assisting in the preparation and response to customer RFP requests, carefully qualifying the prospective deal for technical feasibility. 

• Scoping and building proofs of concept for prospective customers that require a hands-on experience of NiCE products, to confirm the required performance of the solution within their environment. 

• Developing detailed solution design documentation for each new customer, which will serve as the foundation of our technical engagement, and act as a bridge to seamlessly engage our Professional Services Organization, to provide the most effective onboarding experience. 

• Continuously building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders in each sales cycle, including executive, financial, technical decision makers and influencers within each of our prospects. 

Have you got what it takes?  

• Broad knowledge of call center technologies, automatic call distributors (ACD) and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. 

• Broad knowledge of workforce optimization and analytics practices and technologies. 

• Broad knowledge of digital self-service, messaging and social media platforms. 

• Basic knowledge of IP telephony, SIP trunk, WebRTC. 

• Basic knowledge of cloud security 

• Exceptional written and verbal Japanese communication skills 

• Intermediate written and verbal English communication skills (CEFR B2+ / IELTS 5.5+) 

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively listen to quickly assess the situation and then convey thoughts and ideas in a clear and concise manner. 

• Strong presentation skills – must possess the ability to sell and effectively build credibility in front of all levels of management, including an executive audience. 

• Analytical and quantitative abilities required – Must be able to interpret and explain financial and statistical information. 

You will have an advantage if you also have: 

• 7+ years of sales experience outside of sales engineering in a software environment 

• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. 

• Experience with programming or scripting languages such as Javascript or Python, and including use of REST APIs. 

• Detail-oriented, but able to digest the critical elements of a situation to withstand being hyper-focused on the minutia. 

• Experience with ROI and business case models and relating product capabilities to business benefits. 

• Ability to multi-task in a challenging environment while maintaining a high level of responsiveness. 

What’s in it for you? 

Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NICEr! 

Enjoy NiCE-FLEX!  

At NiCE, we work according to the NiCE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere. 

Requisition ID: 5670
Reporting into: Director, Pre-Sales
Role Type: Individual Contributor

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Why this role matters:

This role is crucial for driving the growth and success of Vonage's API/CPaaS solutions, particularly for the Video API vertical team. As a Video API Account Executive, you will play a pivotal role in expanding existing relationships with tech-savvy customers and cultivating new ones, focusing on high-growth digital and cloud software companies. Given Vonage's position as a leader in WebRTC Video solutions, your work will directly contribute to helping innovative companies integrate video into their customer experiences, setting them apart in their respective industries.

Your key responsibilities:

• Drive opportunities through the entire sales cycle from pipeline generation through to close and post-sales / up-sell
• Employ a value & solution oriented sales methodology with a focus on real time video communication solutions
• Build upon the growth & adoption of our Video APIs in the Mid-Market segment in the EMEA region
• Own cross functional opportunity management from Pre-Sales through to working with Customer Success
• Drive a pipeline generation cadence to develop expansion opportunities and land new target accounts 
• Lead compelling presentations of Vonage’s CPaaS product and vision to a broad range of audiences from c-level executives to individual contributors leveraging Vonage’s value-based sales methodology
• Provide timely and accurate forecasts and clear visibility on sales and revenue performance by actively handling your pipeline of opportunities on pre-committed revenue deals
• Leverage and coordinate cross-functional internal teams to efficiently navigate complex sales cycles (incl. Sales Development, Pre-Sales, Legal, Engineering, Security, Marketing, Product and Customer Success)

What you’ll bring:

Required:

• Experience in Enterprise technology sales, SaaS, Cloud, or API based communications, with a proven track record of success.
• Experience selling WebRTC based solutions or other Video technologies 
• Demonstrated success in prospecting, identifying new customers through cold calling, lead generation and networking.
• Strong relationship-building skills with executives across business, marketing, and technology teams.
• Experience collaborating effectively with Pre-Sales Consultants.
• A proactive attitude, creativity, curiosity, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively across the business.

Experience we consider a plus:

• A solution-oriented sales approach that spans the full delivery lifecycle, with a focus on consistently growing and maintaining a robust new business pipeline that meets and exceeds targets.
• Experience in gaming, finance, social or healthcare verticals selling Video products
• Experience working closely with pre-sales teams to design innovative CPaaS solutions, especially for clients looking to migrate their communication infrastructure to the cloud and integrate APIs into their customer experience flows.

How you’ll benefit:

• Additional benefits and perks will be shared and discussed with you by the recruiter during the interview process

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