Senior Solutions Consultant, Appian
Low-code software development platform
Job no longer available
Low-code software development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify what it takes to turn great ideas into powerful business applications that deliver significant value.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Strong experience as a successful Pre-Sales Engineer OR a Professional Services/Consulting role that is client facing and involves sales scenarios - Able to do custom POCs and demos
- Ability to strategically problem solve by thinking outside of the box is required daily
- Technical depth to respond to all functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
- Proven success conveying customer requirements to Product Management teams
- Familiarity with Business Process Management Platforms, Low Code Platforms, or Application Development Platforms is a plus
- Recent experience programming within a modern web or enterprise development systems
- Familiarity in production environments (application servers, web servers, databases)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, customer interaction, requirements analysis, presentations, and system design
What the job involves
- Actively drive and manage the technology evaluation stage of the sales process, working in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical adviser and product advocate
- Using technical creativity and business acumen, you will illustrate the value that Appian’s platform can provide
- Be able to engage and articulate product positioning to both business and technical users in competitive scenarios
- Rapidly identify all technical issues of assigned accounts to assure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the sales process
- Partner with Account Executives to achieve defined sales goals
- Lead efforts to ensure the delivery of all technical resources into the sales campaigns
- Assist in the production of RFPs and other proposals to clients
- Propose technical and creative business solutions in support of sales activities
- Design and deliver high quality technical Proof of Concepts for prospective customers
- Present technical and business aspects of proposed solutions to a C-Level audience
- Represent Appian’s product to customers and at field events such as conferences, summits, seminars, etc
- Assist with the radiation strategy within the target accounts by building customer relationships
- Manage target accounts that may span multiple Account Executives
- Work with colleagues across the organization to receive the support needed to accomplish the technical goals
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Appian provides a way for companies to build their own software on the cloud, joining giants of the likes of Salesforce, ServiceNow, IBM and Oracle in the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business.
The company differentiates itself by providing a low-code platform, where people with little or no coding experience could also build customised applications in a predominantly drag-and-drop interface.
Along with the tide of digital transformation, companies are increasingly looking for software solutions that are not available off the shelf from say Microsoft to manage their business cases. This has given rise to a $100 billion a year market that Appian hopes to capitalise on by making it easier for companies to create their own unique software applications.
Given the surge in popularity of Artificial Intelligence, Applian's platform has also been integrated with some of the major cloud cognitive and machine learning platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, whilst it recently partnered with DISYS to improve performance across critical business processes.
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2014
$38m
SERIES B
Jul 2008
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48m
Company values
- Work to impact - we work thoughtfully to drive positive outcomes in everything that we do
- People first - we are generous, inclusive, respectful, and are willing to help other
- Lead with agility - we are flexible, adapt quickly to change, and are driven by innovation
- Commit to collaboration - we succeed when we align on goals, and support each other in everything we do
Company HQ
Tysons, VA
Articles
Additional info
- Raised £60M from IPO on 25 May 2017
Founders
Matt Calkins
(CEO)Previously Director of Enterprise Product Group at business intelligence company MicroStrategy before co-founding Appian.
Michael Beckley
(CTO & Founder)Started his career working in Product Management at MicroStrategy
Bob Kramer
(General Manager)Previously worked as a consultant at MicroStrategy after graduating from University of Pennsylvania.
Marc Wilson
(Chief Partner Officer)Previously worked as a consultant at Boston Pacific after graduating from Dartmouth College.
People progressing
Joined as Associate Consultant for application development, eventually promoted to Principal Consultant after 5 years, and promoted again to Technical Delivery Manager after 3 years.
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