Solutions Engineer

Company: Comcast
Location: New York
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Job Summary

FreeWheel's Client Solutions team takes an innovative, collaborative, and white-glove approach in providing best-in-class services and forward-looking business solutions for the media industry. Client Solutions (Demand) team is tasked with developing creative and pioneering solutions to the business challenges faced by the world's largest demand-side media companies - particularly Agency Holding Companies. We are a vital partner for other Freewheel functions, and your communication skills, passion for media, and business/technical acumen will all contribute to the development of complex solutions that power the future of the industry. Your solutions will take many forms, from POCs and demos, to large multi-faceted deployments of new and existing demand-side technology. About the role Reporting to the Senior Director, Client Solutions (Demand), the Solution Engineer acts as a primary point of contact for clients when an opportunity or need for a new solution is required. Collaborates with other functions across FreeWheel to bring new technology to market, from Go-To-Market strategy to general acceptance ensuring all of our products have a best-in-class solution fit. They will work as part of a global team that can be deployed on global, regional and/or local opportunities as required.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Solution Engineers globally to develop our Solution Engineering best practices and processes

• Collaborate with other Freewheel functions to bring new demand-side technology to market on a global, regional or local basis as required.

• Partner with Revenue by consulting on new opportunities, analyzing business and/or technical needs and assessing solution fit for clients.

• Develop strategic, cost-effective business and/or technical solutions.

• Lead the design, documentation, communication and/or implementation of solutions with our clients.

• Engage with clients, partners and other Freewheel functions using your skills and experience to run meetings, workshops and solution playbacks to develop knowledge bases filled with fresh, validated information as required.

• Work with Product and Engineering to size solutions (excluding development) required for new opportunities to understand the effort involved in taking it to market / implementing it with clients.

• Work closely with other members of the team to ensure we are timely and profitable, and deliver return on investment for our clients. Refine solutions by taking input from wherever necessary to make sure it is best fit for the client within contractual and project parameters.

• Actively verifies that solutions are implemented as designed by establishing quality controls with effective and efficient processes.

• Provide support for clients during and post-implementation until solutions are stable. Hand over support to Global Support by providing effective documentation.

• Work with Product and Engineering through the product lifecycle to ensure that products meet agreed standards and that tools are provided for an effective and efficient implementation and support.

• Work with Product and Engineering through the product lifecycle to ensure that products meet agreed market and client requirements.

• Track product adoption to understand feature usage levels and patterns throughout the product lifecycle and customer journey. Work with clients, partners and other Freewheel functions to improve adoption.

• Ensure correct data is available in a timely manner to understand key metrics such as cost to service and productive utilization.

We are looking for someone that is naturally inquisitive, technical and loves to creatively solve problems.

• You care deeply about delivering solutions of the highest quality for clients and act as a strong internal advocate.

• You develop relationships with clients built on the trust earned through quality delivery.

• You develop relationships internally that enable you to participate in cross-functional collaboration throughout the product development lifecycle.

• You favour scalability and so have the discipline to implement intelligent processes as you go, rather than needing to re-solve the same problems time and again.

While these characteristics will outweigh any specific technical skills, the successful candidate should have:

• Experience in digital media, specifically within and/or servicing media agencies in a similar role.

• Strong understanding of the advertising industry especially media agencies and their goals.

• Excellent presentation aptitude with strong client-facing communication skills; ability to explain technical capabilities to CEO's and CTO's, but also understands programming and networking concepts and terminology.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years

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