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Solutions Engineer

Wazoku

Wazoku

London, UK
Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2024

About You

You are a proactive and inventive individual, driven by a genuine curiosity to understand and tackle customer challenges. As an advisor, you shine in customer meetings and excel at delivering compelling product demonstrations. Your inquisitive nature extends to identifying innovative solutions, and your creativity comes to the forefront as you leverage Wazoku’s products in novel and effective ways.

About the Role

As a key team member, you’ll be the trusted advisor for prospects and accounts, understanding and addressing their innovation challenges. Responsibilities include conduction of Solution Design Workshops, to gather customer requirements, and delivering product demonstrations. Your role involves showcasing creativity, excellent presentation skills, and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

About Wazoku

Will you help to provide clean water to schools in Mexico? To find a better solution to protect astronauts? To invent the next multi-billion market breakthrough? At Wazoku, that’s exactly what we achieve as we; change the world, one idea at a time.

We do this through our enterprise innovation platform that help organisations to find that one person who has that one idea wherever they are to solve their smallest to biggest problems to generate solutions that truly change the world. We work with Global 2000 organisations from the likes of NASA to Nissan and GSK, helping them discover new products and services, continuous improvements, but also ways to sustain our planet.

We are a B-Corp, Carbon Negative, for-purpose organisation with recent funding from Octopus Ventures and we are growing.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted advisor to key prospects and accounts, understanding their challenges and requirements related to their innovation programs.
  • Conduct Solution Design workshops to gather and clarify the needs of the prospect to ensure we are building effective solutions.
  • Deliver product demonstrations to showcase the capabilities and benefits of the solution.
  • Collaborate with the sales and product teams to develop customised proposals and respond to RFPs/RFIs.
  • Provide technical expertise throughout the sales cycle, including completing information security questionnaires.

Requirements

  • Ability to identify innovative solutions to customer needs.
  • Curiosity to learn and explore the requirements of customers.
  • Creativity to develop unique solutions, utilising Wazoku tools in new and effective ways.
  • Excellent presentation skills.
  • Strong ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to build rapport and grow relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Location:

  • This is a hybrid role where you will be required to work from our London office one day per week (Thursday's)

What we offer

Although we work hard, we also recognise the importance of maintaining a proper integration of work/life priorities and providing a culture that encourages creativity and productivity. Our benefits include:

  • You'll enjoy 25 days of annual leave in addition to bank holidays, with the added perk of taking your birthday day off. Plus, for each year of service, you'll accrue an extra day of leave annually.
  • Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Excellent Parental leave policies to support our working parents through all stages of their life and careers, including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave, and 8 weeks paternity leave.
  • Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme - we match up to 5%
  • Complimentary Mental health service – We are partnered with InsideOut, an on-demand mental health platform, dedicated to breaking down social stigma and opening up the mental health conversation. Everyone has mental health and we couldn't support their mission more. Employees can join at any time
  • Social Events – Including company offsites, summer & Christmas parties, charity engagement and more
  • Great vouchers and offers through our Thanks Ben platform
  • £30 per month to spend on your own personal Health and Wellbeing
  • 10 days paid sick leave per year
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Referral Scheme – £1,000 bonus for every person you successfully refer
  • Anniversary bonuses