Diary of a Sales Engineer
"Diary of a Sales Engineer" takes you on an insightful journey through the dynamic world of sales engineering, hosted by industry veterans Ryan Krueger and Sameer Kausar.
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Designing Your Career with Chris Clark (opens the original)
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What actually comes next after becoming a Solutions Engineer? For most SEs, the obvious answers are bigger accounts or management. Chris Clark thinks that's way too limiting. Chris spent 15 years in Solutions Engineering at companies including Slack, Salesforce, and Glean before moving into career coaching full time. We brought him on to talk through the different paths available to SEs and, more importantly, how to figure out which one is actually right for you. We get into Field CTO and evange
From Grocery Bagger to Running an SE Team at Ramp (opens the original)
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Curtis Breidenthal is Enterprise Solutions Manager at Ramp. He got there with a kinesiology degree, no coding background, and a resume that started with bagging groceries. Curtis takes us through the whole climb: chat support at Bill.com, a cross country bet on himself, and the months he spent training for a sales engineering job that had not opened yet. He gets into what he had to unlearn from customer support to be good at presales, why the best demo is often the one you never show, and the si
RIP Traditional Presales (opens the original)
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RIP traditional presales. Ryan Krueger and Sameer Sahay-Kausar sit down to map what is actually replacing it, and what the shift means for your career as a sales engineer. We get into why "pre-sales" is a label that no longer fits, the new roles taking shape (we coin a couple live, the account engineer and the forward deploy solution engineer), and how consumption-based pricing quietly rewires everything about how solutions engineers create value. We also dig into why SEs are already writing and
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