Sales Engineer (German Speaking)

Make an impact when it matters most

Everbridge is a fast-growing global provider of SaaS-based critical communications and enterprise safety solutions. Our technology helps organizations communicate effectively, coordinate action, and manage critical events.

We’re looking for a German speaking Sales Engineer to join our team in a fully remote, home-based role anywhere in Germany.

As a Sales Engineer, you’ll be the primary pre-sales technical partner for our Account Executives, working with some of our largest and most complex customers and prospects. You’ll engage with business leaders, technical stakeholders, and C-level executives to demonstrate how the Everbridge Critical Event Management (CEM) platform can solve real business challenges and deliver measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives as their primary technical pre-sales resource.
• Support the discovery phase by uncovering customer needs, priorities, and challenges.
• Present the Everbridge CEM platform and vision to technical, business, and C-level audiences.
• Deliver tailored solution demonstrations that connect customer challenges to clear business outcomes.
• Facilitate technical workshops and manage pilots aligned to defined customer objectives.
• Create high-level functional specifications for customizations and third-party integrations, supporting the Everbridge Professional Services team.
• Demonstrate the Everbridge REST API and answer detailed questions about product capabilities, architecture, security, and delivery infrastructure.
• Position Everbridge Professional Services to ensure high-quality solution delivery.
• Train the sales team and create enablement and support materials.
• Respond to the functional and technical sections of RFIs, RFPs, and security questionnaires.
• Represent Everbridge at company events, industry trade shows, and customer webinars.
• Feed customer insights and industry trends into the product request for enhancement process.
• Support the delivery of Professional Services for a targeted number of billable days per quarter, as defined in the annual compensation plan.

Required skills

• Fluency in spoken and written German is essential.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• At least five years’ experience in enterprise software sales and services in a customer-facing pre-sales role.
• A consultative approach and the ability to translate customer needs into compelling, solution-based demonstrations.
• Strong discovery, questioning, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• The ability to build trusted relationships and develop customer champions.
• Confidence engaging and evangelizing solutions with C-level audiences.
• Strong knowledge of internet-hosted applications, highly available architectures, computer security, telephony, and networking.
• Technical understanding of relational data structures, XML/SOAP, middleware architectures, and REST APIs.
• Experience with solution-based and consultative/value-based selling techniques.
• The adaptability to tailor technical presentations and discussions to different audiences and customer challenges.
• The ability to prepare and deliver detailed product and technical presentations at short notice, with professionalism and confidence.
• Excellent organization and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing sales-support and Professional Services priorities.
• A creative, solutions-oriented approach to removing sales obstacles.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and web-based applications.

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About Everbridge

Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover from critical events. In an unpredictable world, resilient organizations protect their people and operations, adapt under pressure, and return to productivity faster. Our Critical Event Management (CEM) technology combines intelligent automation with comprehensive risk intelligence to help organizations strengthen resilience, keep people safe, and maintain operations.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Employment Practices

Everbridge does not require or administer lie detector (polygraph) tests as a condition of employment or continued employment. In Massachusetts, it is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. Employers who violate this law may be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.