Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.
Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.
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.
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Neo4j is the world’s leading graph database, and our Sales Engineering team are the people who help customers realise its value every day. Neo4j has proven to be the go-to data management solution in use cases such as Fraud Detection, Knowledge Graphs, Recommendation and personalisation, Risk management, Security, IT Management and Network Operations and many more.
In the Neo4j Sales Engineering team, we are technologists who enjoy working directly with customers in a variety of industries, and with a wide range of technologies and architectures. We provide engineering and architecture leadership and development for the Neo4j-based solutions our customers are building.
The responsibilities of a Sales Engineer cover a variety of tasks, starting from understanding the prospective customer's needs and environment, transforming the needs into an architecture including our leading-edge graph database technology and guiding all involved parties through the sales process. Demonstrating Neo4j as a technology for specific domains, whiteboarding solution architectures, and engaging at the level of technical decision makers are examples of the day-by-day work. The Sales Engineer understands business terminology, thinks in technical terms and combines both sides during the entire engagement.
In addition to being Graph Database experts, you will need to understand and position other architectural components in a graph-based solution, such as Big Data platforms, other NoSQL stores, relational databases, caching, messaging and middleware services taking part in a Modern Data Architecture.
What You'll Do:
- Working with our customers’ teams, you’ll lead and contribute to all phases of the Neo4j PreSales projects
- Be an integral part of the Neo4j sales team, helping to persuade prospective Neo4j users of the benefits and advantages of graph database technology
- Position the Neo4j technology within the customer’s environment and architecture
- Discuss solution architectures with our customers to address the technical requirements of our customers’ projects
- Design and build prototype solutions that demonstrate required functionality with Neo4j
- Help prepare solution proposals for our customer’s engineering and management teams that help address the overall project goals
What You'll Bring:
- 5+ years working in a presales or professional services organisation
- Skilled in customer discovery, and the ability to uncover root causes of customer pain points and map these to a technical solution
- Experience working with government agencies and public sector organisations
- Excellent understanding and demonstrable experience with database technologies and data modelling concepts, ideally with NoSQL stores.
- Architecture skills - i.e. mapping a business to technical requirements and understanding multiple components to build a solution
- Software engineering experience
- Familiarity with at least one programming language (eg. Java, Python, Javascript)
- Ability to engage and interact with engineers in an advisory role
- Comfortable and quick with learning new technologies as needed
- Passionate about solving technical problems
- Capable of educating and training small groups
- Strong understanding of the sales process
- A proactive approach to keeping the technical aspects of a sales process on track
- Industry vertical experience in Government and ideally one or more of: Financial Services, Retail, Security or Pharmaceutical, Supply Chain, Manufacturing
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
- Ability to work independently, self-directed and remotely in a cross-functional organisation
- Ability and willingness to travel
Nice to Have:
- Graph DB related experience i.e. Neo4j, other property graph or RDF platform, Gaffer, etc. is ideal
- Data Science, AI/ML, RAG / LLM optimisation
- Data integration: ETL, Virtualisation, federation
- BI and data visualisation (Tableau, Qlik, viz libraries: D3, viz.js, Linkurious...)
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The annual on target earnings range for this position based in the United States is listed below. This range is an estimate, and the actual on target earnings may vary based on Neo4j’s compensation practices, job related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and trainings, in addition to geographic location. Based on the factors above, Neo4j utilizes the full width of the range.
In addition to the range below, US employees are eligible for a stock option grant and certain roles are eligible for an annual bonus. Employees in this position are also eligible to participate in the Company’s standard benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k), paid time off, and certain leaves of absence.
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph intelligence platform in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, 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. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
- Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
- 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
- Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
- Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
- A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited 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 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 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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