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Technical Presales Team Leader

London
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Technical Presales Team Leader

A brilliant opportunity for an experienced Technical Presales professional to join a rapidly scaling AI software company who are transforming how global enterprises operate. This senior role will see you both leading and growing the pre-sales function while remaining hands-on with major strategic opportunities. You’ll ensure that every engagement with prospective customers highlights the technical excellence, scalability, and enterprise readiness of their cutting-edge AI platform.

Location: Central London – Hybrid

Salary: Competitive package with performance incentives + annual L&D budget + excellent benefits

Requirements for Technical Presales Team Leader

  • Strong track record in presales or solutions engineering within a SaaS business, ideally with exposure to AI, cybersecurity, or enterprise-scale platforms

  • Proven experience building and leading high-performing technical presales or sales engineering teams

  • Broad technical foundation across areas such as cloud infrastructure, security and compliance, APIs, integrations, and modern approaches to AI/ML

  • Demonstrated success in supporting large enterprise opportunities, from proof-of-value through to close

  • This company values a top academic history so are looking for a 2.1 or 1st class degree and at least ABB at A Level

  • Excellent communicator able to engage confidently with senior technical and business stakeholders

  • Comfortable operating as a “player-coach” — driving the function forward while remaining hands-on with critical opportunities

    Responsibilities for Technical Presales Team Leader

    You will start leading a team of 4 Junior Pre-Sales Engineers in a role with an 80% sales / 20% solutions engineering split supporting how the software is integrated with customers:

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Tech Sales Specialists and Solutions Engineers

  • Define best practices, playbooks, and repeatable assets to drive consistent pre-sales excellence

  • Act as senior technical authority in enterprise meetings, supporting AEs on high-value opportunities

  • Deliver compelling technical messaging around AI, architecture, integrations, and deployment models

  • Develop and maintain demo environments, reference architectures, and enablement materials

  • Ensure customer and market feedback is channelled into Product and Engineering teams

    What the role offers

  • A rare opportunity to build and lead the presales function at a high-growth AI company

  • Competitive package with performance-based incentives and a generous annual L&D budget

  • The chance to work with innovative technology shaping the future of enterprise AI

    Applications

    If you would like to apply for this unique Technical Presales Team Leader role, please send your CV via the relevant links!

    We’re committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments for your application or during the review process, please highlight this by separately emailing (if this email address has been removed by the job-board, full contact details are readily available on our website).

    Keywords – Technical Presales Team Leader / Presales Manager / Solutions Engineering Lead / Sales Engineering Manager / Technical Sales Leader / Enterprise SaaS Presales / Pre-Sales Architect / SaaS Sales Engineer / Cloud Presales Specialist / AI Presales Consultant / SaaS Integrations / APIs / Security / Compliance / AWS / Azure / GCP / NLP / ML / ISO27001 / SOC2 / GDPR

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