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nandortherelentless

Mid Market Account Executive

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Moving into a solutions consulting or pre-sales engineer role

Hello!


I'm hoping that this is the right avenue for this, but if not I'll happily take the post down. I've been a quota-carrying AE for 3 years and want to migrate into a different piece of the sales cycle. I have learning & development experience, as well as account management. My question is this:


What skills (outside of managing the sales cycle) can I acquire to look attractive to prospective employers?


Thanks so much and I hope you all have a great Q1!

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Sunbunny31
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Have you talked to solutions consultants or sales engineers at your company to find out what experience they have and what they think is valuable to know?
nandortherelentless
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Mid Market Account Executive
I would, but we are so small that the role doesnโ€™t exist. Iโ€™ve reached out to a few recruiters of solutions roles, but I am trying to gain as much insight as I can. Thank you for responding, btw! ๐Ÿ™‚
TennisandSales
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hmm im not exactly sure what experience would stand out.

i would look at job descriptions you think sound interesting, and see what they list as preferred / required skills.
Justatitle
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Do you have any type of technical background you can show as usually for solutions or pre-sales engineering the role entails interacting with the technical counterparts from the prospects side and they will usually dig into functionality and API questions that go over the AEs heads.
CuriousFox
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What have people currently in that role said?

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