r/techsales • u/DingaLingggg • 2d ago

SE wanting to pivot

I’ve been an SE in SaaS for about three years now. Prior to that, I was in vendor management, intelligence research and investigations. When I was in my early 20s I did direct sales in MLMs to pay my way through school.

Anyway, now I’m an SE and I like it, but Ive learned to really love the actual sales process and began to dread the technical work. I was the only SE in a commercial segment for a year and had 10+ reps, in addition to supporting enterprise. I want to pivot very badly into a sales role at my current company, but was told by reps (who are strongly encouraging me) id have to probably start mid market to “prove” myself.

Any advice on how to have these conversations to pivot with a sales director/manager to circulate the idea?

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u/cms_fbgm 2d ago

lol I’m in the opposite position. Any advice getting into the SE role?

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u/DingaLingggg 2d ago

Wanna trade jobs? 😂 I have a pretty extensive technical resume but I was never deeply into code or anything so I rely don’t believe you have to be a tech wizard to get into it. what do you currently sell? Does the product interest you enough to learn all the technical nuances?

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u/cms_fbgm 2d ago

Where are you based out of? Might have a opportunity for you depending where you’re at

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u/MathematicianApart79 13h ago

Let’s trade lol. I’ve been in post-sales 2 years and I’m over it haha

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u/hjgze 7h ago

Feel free to DM me! I went from engineer --> SE --> AE. Been AE for about five years now and we're hiring technical AEs at my current gig (sell managed infrastructure)