About Neo4j:
Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.
At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.
Our Vision:
At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.
As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.
The Role
Neo4j is the world’s leading graph database, and our Sales Engineering team plays a pivotal role in helping customers unlock it’s potential every day. Neo4j has established itself as the premier data management solution for diverse use cases, including Fraud Detection, Knowledge Graphs, Recommendations and Personalization, Risk Management, Security, IT Operations, Network Management, and more.
As part of Neo4j’s Sales Engineering team, you’ll be a technologist who thrives on working directly with customers across a variety of industries and technical landscapes. You’ll provide thought leadership in engineering and architecture, helping customers design and implement Neo4j-powered solutions tailored to their needs.
The role of a Sales Engineer encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, starting with understanding a prospective customer’s unique requirements and environment. You’ll translate these into tailored solution architectures that incorporate Neo4j’s advanced graph database technology, guiding stakeholders throughout the sales process. Day-to-day activities include demonstrating Neo4j’s capabilities for specific use cases, whiteboarding solution architectures, and engaging with technical decision-makers to align solutions with their business goals.
In this role, you’ll bridge the gap between business and technology, combining technical expertise with a solid understanding of business priorities to deliver impactful solutions.
Beyond Graph Expertise
You’ll also design solutions that incorporate complementary architectural components in a modern graph-based ecosystem. This includes integrating Neo4j with Big Data platforms, other NoSQL databases, relational databases, caching mechanisms, messaging services, middleware, and AI/ML frameworks.
In this role, you’ll combine technical mastery with business acumen to deliver innovative, graph-based solutions that address complex challenges while incorporating cutting-edge GenAI and LLM capabilities. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of the next wave of data-driven transformation.
Main Responsibilities
- Collaboration with Customers: Act as a central player in Neo4j PreSales projects, building and nurturing strong partnerships with customer teams.
- Sales Team Contribution: Be a vital contributor to the Neo4j sales organization, effectively communicating the transformative benefits of graph database solutions.
- Technical Alignment: Ensure smooth and efficient integration of Neo4j solutions within the customer’s technical environment.
- Client Consultations: Provide insights and recommendations that align with clients' technical infrastructure and business strategies.
- Solution Development: Design and present Neo4j-based prototypes that address customer needs and showcase desired functionalities.
Key Role Characteristics:
- Experience: At least 5 years of experience in PreSales or Professional Services, ideally in the automotive or manufacturing sectors.
- Database Expertise: Strong understanding of database platforms, with a focus on NoSQL systems.
- Solution Design: Ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with software development and coding languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
- Advisory Collaboration: Proven success in guiding technical teams through consultative methods.
- Adaptability: Strong desire to learn and quickly adapt to emerging technologies.
- Problem-Solving: Passion for solving complex technical challenges with innovative approaches.
- Educational Skills: Capability to lead training and workshops for small groups.
- Technical Sales Experience: Ability to manage technical aspects of the sales cycle effectively.
- Travel Readiness: Willing to travel as required.
- Language Requirement: Fluent in English, with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proficiency in German is mandatory.
Beneficial Qualifications
- Graph Database Expertise: Hands-on experience with graph database platforms like Neo4j, including Cypher, GDS, or GraphQL integrations.
- Large Language Models (LLM): Knowledge of implementing or integrating LLMs with database solutions to enhance AI-driven applications.
- Vector Database: Familiarity with vector database technologies for advanced data search and similarity matching.
- Graph AI and Data Science: Understanding of graph-based AI and machine learning use cases, with experience leveraging Neo4j GDS or similar tools.
- ETL and Data Integration: Expertise in data integration, ETL workflows, and data virtualization techniques.
Domain Expertise: Proven track record in addressing technical and business challenges.
Why Join Neo4j?
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.
- Neo4j is one of the fastest scaling technology companies in this industry. Well over $100M ARR and still rapidly growing.
- Raised biggest round of funding in all of database history ($325M Series F).
- Backed by world class investors like Google Ventures (GV), Neo4j has raised over $582M in funding and is currently valued at $2Bn. This puts them among the most well-funded database companies in history.
- 75% of Fortune 100 use Neo4j with more than 800 enterprise customers including Comcast, eBay, Adobe, Lyft, UBS, IBM,Volvo Cars and many more.
- Emil Eifrem (CEO) has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation and customer success.
- Countless awards in the industry. Massive Enterprises and individual developers/ data scientists love Neo4j. Strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
- A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact Study pegged Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all of the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.
One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.
Neo4j Values:
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:
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(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: [‘Open’, ‘Inclusive’]})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
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