About the Role
Sabre is seeking a Lead Sales Engineer to join its global Sales Engineering / Pre-Sales team. This role bridges business objectives, enterprise technology solutions, and delivery execution to drive strategic growth. The Lead Sales Engineer will direct technical strategy and pre-sales engagement for high-value sales opportunities across EMEA, serving as a trusted technical advisor to customer executives and guiding cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery, solution strategy and architecture design for complex enterprise sales pursuits.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer executives and decision-makers across EMEA.
- Partner with Sales, Product and Delivery teams to lead customer workshops, RFP responses and technical presentations.
- Identify technical risks, system dependencies and execution considerations to ensure seamless product implementations.
- Mentor sales engineers, establish sales engineering best practices and foster cross-functional collaboration across teams.
- Use AI-enabled automation and workflow tools to streamline RFP responses, technical documentation and pre-sales discovery.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solution Consulting or Pre-Sales within travel technology or enterprise SaaS.
- Strong expertise with travel technology, enterprise software, APIs, integrations and complex Sabre products and automations.
- Proven success leading solution architecture and driving technical strategy for high-value sales opportunities.
- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage technical and executive audiences.
- Professional fluency in English and at least one additional European language.
Work Type
- Flexible work options
Experience Level
- Minimum 10 years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonuses
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonuses
- Flexible work options
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Generous PTO and holidays
- Strong retirement planning support
- Family-friendly benefits
- Professional development opportunities
About the Company
- Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds.
- Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences.
- With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
