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For Windfall’s commercial sales motion, the role of the Sales Engineer is multi-faceted.\nYou will be a strategic advisor to our internal sales team, solutions architect for our prospects, a product representative for demos, and voice of the customer in driving our GTM strategy.\nYou should enjoy solving problems and collaborating with others, and have a strong understanding of the AdTech/MarTech ecosystem. You need to be comfortable working with executive-level stakeholders and experienced product leaders, and can easily facilitate conversations with both technical and nontechnical audiences.\nWe’re on a mission to change how organizations perceive and use people data. 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