Senior Sales Engineer

Location: London | United Kingdom Job Id: 2401

Position: Lead Sales Engineer

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Id: 2401

# of Openings: 1

About the Role

The Lead Sales Engineer – New Products is a customer‑facing, technically deep role focused on supporting the go‑to‑market success of Afiniti's newest products. This individual partners closely with Sales Executives, Product, and Customer Success to articulate value, demonstrate capabilities, and design solutions for enterprise customers.

This role supports global sales efforts and plays a key role in helping establish a global standard for how Sales Engineering supports Afiniti's new product portfolio. The Lead Sales Engineer will help define best practices, reusable assets, and engagement models that can scale globally.

This is a builder role, ideal for someone who enjoys working with evolving products, shaping sales motions, and translating complex technology into clear business outcomes.

Key Deliverables

• Partner with Sales to support enterprise sales cycles for Afiniti's new products.
• Translate customer business use cases into technical and architectural solutions.
• Engage CTO, CIO, architecture, and operations stakeholders to position solution design and deployment approaches.

New Product Enablement & Go‑To‑Market (GTM) Support

• Support product launches through sales enablement, field readiness, and messaging refinement.
• Establish global standards for Sales Engineer engagement models, best practices, and delivery excellence across regions.
• Design end‑to‑end solutions leveraging Afiniti's agentic AI and contact center integrations.
• Advise customers on architecture, integration patterns, and deployment approaches.
• Lead technical strategy for complex opportunities, pilots, and PoCs through technical validation.
• Drive technical validation, risk mitigation, and solution confidence to accelerate deal progression and improve win rates.
• Create reference architectures, demo environments, and playbooks to scale product adoption globally.

Agentic AI & Contact Center Expertise

• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive solutions.
• Partner with Product team to relay customer insights and technical feedback.
• Collaborate with Customer Success to ensure seamless handoff from pre‑sale to post‑sale.
• Partner with Sales to shape technical approach within account plans across major opportunities.

Who You Are (Experience)

You bring 7+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or similar technical pre‑sales role, with proven ability to support enterprise or mid‑market sales cycles. You have experience in agentic AI, conversational AI, or contact center software environments, and a strong understanding of enterprise SaaS architectures and integrations.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of enterprise SaaS architectures and integrations.
• Experience with CCaaS platforms or contact center ecosystems (preferred).
• Familiarity with AI‑driven workflow orchestration or automation platforms (preferred).
• Builder mindset, comfortable working with evolving products and shaping new sales motions.
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to translate complex technology into clear business outcomes.
• Adaptable and thrives in global, distributed team environments.
• Willingness and ability to be based in Dublin, Ireland.

What Success Looks Like

• Accelerate adoption of Afiniti's new agentic AI products through credible, consistent technical engagement.
• Improve win rates in complex enterprise sales cycles through strong solution design and technical validation.
• Act as a trusted bridge between product innovation and measurable customer outcomes.
• Build reusable assets, reference architectures, demo environments, playbooks—scale globally.

Why Should You Apply

This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in Afiniti's next phase of growth—bringing new agentic AI products to market and shaping how the world's largest brands serve their customers. You will have the autonomy to define how Sales Engineering operates globally, work closely with product and sales leadership, and directly influence some of the most complex and exciting enterprise deals in the market. If you thrive at the intersection of deep technology and business impact, this role offers a unique platform to build something that scales.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We believe that the richness in diversity is a huge asset for Afiniti. We value both the similarities and differences in everyone who is a part of the Afiniti team. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, personal appearance, genetic information, family responsibilities, political affiliation, military or veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

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