Director, Solutions Consulting

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Role Overview As the Director of Solutions Consulting, you will be a strategic leader responsible for building, mentoring, and scaling a high-performing team of Solutions Consultants. You will oversee the technical sales strategy, ensuring your team effectively removes technical friction and demonstrates the "Technical Win" for both new logos and enterprise expansions. You are a "leader of leaders" or a "leader of experts" who balances deep technical observability knowledge with executive-level business acumen. You will partner closely with Sales Leadership (RVP/VP), Product, and Customer Success to drive the regional revenue engine. What You’ll Do Team Leadership: Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of SCs. Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and value-based selling. Strategic Advisory: Act as the executive technical sponsor for "must-win" enterprise deals, building relationships with customer CTOs and CIOs. Operational Excellence: Define and optimize the SC engagement model, including discovery standards, POC frameworks, and value-realization assets. Sales Partnership: Partner with Regional Sales Directors to align technical resources with territory goals and ensure a healthy pipeline of qualified opportunities. Product Feedback Loop: Act as a key stakeholder for the Product Management team, funneling regional market requirements and competitive intelligence into the product roadmap. Responsibilities What You’ll Do Leadership & Mentorship: Lead a high-performing team of Solutions Consultants (SCs). Strategic Sales Partnership: Act as the primary technical partner to Regional Sales Vice Presidents (RVPs). You will align technical resources to the highest-impact opportunities and ensure the team is positioned to hit quarterly and annual revenue targets. Scaling the "Technical Win": Standardize the methodology for discovery workshops, Proofs of Concept (PoCs), and value-realization assets. You will ensure that every SC is equipped to remove technical objections and provide clear differentiation against competitors. Executive Advocacy: Act as a "Player-Coach" for high-stakes enterprise deals, building relationships with C-Suite stakeholders (CTOs, CIOs, VPs of Engineering) to act as a trusted advisor. Product & Market Feedback Loop: Synthesize field intelligence into actionable insights for Product Management and Marketing to influence the roadmap and refine our competitive positioning. Required Skills & Qualifications Leadership Experience: 12+ years of experience in Pre-Sales/Solutions Consulting, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership or management role. Technical Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of the Observability landscape (APM, Logging, Infrastructure) and Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP). Observability Mastery: Familiarity with OpenSource standards (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) and modern software architectures (Microservices, Serverless, K8s). Strategic Selling: Mastery of value-based selling methodologies (e.g., MEDDPICC, Command of the Message). Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; MBA is a plus. Soft Skills: Exceptional emotional intelligence (EQ), conflict resolution skills, and the ability to inspire a team during high-pressure sales cycles. Travel: Ability to travel within the region to support key customer engagements and team offsites. wide and deep on solution positioning, differentiation and value during sales cycles. What you'll do: You will be the Technical lead for New Relic prospects (new logos) and customers and own the technical strategic direction in the account through an advanced ability to develop, position and provide product-centric and value-centric solutions during sales cycles, while achieving quarterly and annual sales goals for an assigned territory. This role will focus on partnering with the Sales Account Executives to generate new revenue by taking technical ownership of the opportunity pursuits throughout the sales cycle for prospects (new logos) and expansion into new groups and/or new capabilities for existing customers. The Solutions Consultant must possess a winning combination of business and technical skills, the ability to present and demonstrate our solutions to a broad spectrum of audiences from IT to business, and be able to build strong relationships and handle technical objections and issues throughout the sales cycle. Ultimately, the Solutions Consultants needs to be a trusted advisor both to internal partners as well as to our technical customers and C-Level Executives alike. Responsibilities: Develop deep expertise of New Relic products and services Partner with sales for effective qualification (technical and business) for prospects (new logos) and expansion opportunities with existing customers Lead value and solution discovery workshops to determine customers' challenges Create compelling Technical Proofs through demonstrations, presentations, workshops and business value assets to align our solution and value with customer initiatives, needs and business challenges to get customer buy-in and support for the proposed strategic/technical solution. Develop and present provocative points of view to showcase the current and future potential of customers standardizing on the New Relic platform Develop and successfully execute proof-of- concept and pilot engagements to showcase New Relic value proposition aligned to customers business metrics/outcomes Identify and resolve critical business/technical issues from customers, partners and colleagues Directly contribute in achieving revenue goals set for the assigned respective territory. You will also: Collaborate as part of a broader account team to strategize and address business and technical problems Share and learn best practices and re-usable assets with other Solutions Consultants to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team Provide feedback to product management about product enhancements that can address customer needs and guide additional value Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation Build strong working relationships with key customer stakeholders and executives and help create champions for New Relic within the customer base. Support marketing initiatives such as speaking at industry events, executive briefings, user groups, conferences and signing up customer references as well as social media campaigns. Skills: Pre-sales experience and/or in similar customer-facing technical roles (5+ years desirable) Experience and understanding of monitoring and observability including experience with: AWS, GCP, Azure, DevOps, CI/CD, AIOps, logging, data analytics and visualization Experience with open source technologies including Prometheus, Grafana, Opencensus, ELK is desirable Development experience in one or more of the following languages – Java, .NET, Ruby, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, React Clear understanding of cloud architecture, networking, Infrastructure as Code, serverless computing Excellent written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal skills Strong problem solving skills Understanding of value based selling in customer facing roles Strong balance of sales, business and technical skills Experience working with enterprise customers, especially in the following industry verticals : Digital Natives, ECommerce/Retail, Healthcare, Media and Entertainment, Telco, Financial Services, Gaming, Hospitality and Travel Passion and energy for technology and a desire to learn Willingness to travel Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position #LI-PS2 Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. 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