Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking an Applied AI Engineer - Americas Partners, who will act as a technical lead responsible for driving growth and technical enablement of key partners across the United States and Latin Americas. This role involves deep technical engagement, partner enablement, and providing technical thought leadership to ensure mutual partner and customer success.
Responsibilities
- Lead Technical Enablement: Design and execute comprehensive enablement plans to educate partner Solutions Architects and Sales Engineers on the Talkdesk value proposition, product architecture, competitive differentiators, and roadmap
- Partner Center of Excellence: Support the development of Partner Competency Centers by coaching on effective technical discovery, platform demonstrations, and proof-of-concept (POC) execution
- Domain Expertise: Develop and maintain deep domain expertise in the regional Partner landscape, understanding their current go-to-market (GTM) strategy, areas of focus, and identifying new opportunities for expansion
- Agentic AI Focus: Provide technical expertise on Agentic AI solutions within the contact center, including prompt engineering, RAG implementations, tools integration, and guardrail best practices
- Customer Engagement: Provide technical oversight, guidance, and direct assistance to Partner sales teams in understanding complex customer business and technical requirements, use cases, and solution design
- Solution Demonstration: Lead advanced technical discussions, conduct compelling demonstrations of the Talkdesk platform, and articulate the ease of integration within an enterprise ecosystem
- Ecosystem Integration: Develop a deep understanding of the enterprise ecosystem, including integration requirements with CRM (e.g., Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics), WFM, Knowledge Management, and UCaaS vendors
- Voice of the Partner: Act as the critical communication channel to Talkdesk Product Management and Engineering teams, relaying Partner and customer needs, market trends, and product enhancement requests
- Market Representation: Represent Talkdesk as a technical expert at regional Partner summits, technical events, webinars, and conferences
- Travel: Ability to travel approximately 15-25% of the time across the US, and Canada as required
Skills
- 12+ years of experience as a Partner Solutions Engineer or Pre-Sales Engineer in the CCaaS/CXA sector
- Solid experience working with TSB/TSD, Service Providers, Regional Systems Integrators, National Partners, and VARs, with a proven understanding of a channel-centric GTM approach within the US markets
- Proven ability to lead and drive complex technical engagements and serve as a subject matter expert without direct people management responsibilities
- Experience with at least one Unified Communication protocol (e.g., SIP, WebRTC, RTP) and familiarity with Call/Message processing Proxies and Session Border Controllers
- Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with modern Agentic AI technologies, including the practical application of LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Google, AWS) for Contact Center and Customer Experience Automation use cases
- Excellent communication, presentation, and whiteboard session skills with an ability to clearly articulate complex technical ideas to highly skilled and experienced Partner audiences
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, or an equivalent combination of education and years of relevant experience
Benefits
- Based on level and role the employee may be eligible for long term incentives in the form of equity and short term incentives of either bonus or commission.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- 401(k) plan
- Talkdesk offers an uncapped paid time off program for exempt employees and an accrual-based program for non-exempt employees; both are subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.
- Talkdesk offers 14 paid holidays each year.
- Exempt employees have uncapped paid time off and non-exempt sick leave follows accrual standards; both are subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.
Company Overview
Dice is a job-searching platform for technology professionals. It is a sub-organization of DHI Group. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.dice.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Dice has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.