Senior Solutions Consultant (Presales)

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. At Apollo, Senior Solutions Consultants don't just support deals, they shape them. This role sits at the intersection of revenue, product, and the customer, directly influencing how Apollo wins, retains, and expands its most strategic accounts. As a trusted technical and strategic advisor across the full customer lifecycle, this person drives complex, high-stakes deals forward, accelerates time-to-value, and influences long-term business outcomes for our customers. This person is not only an expert in solution architecture, but they also serve as player-coach who scales the impact of the SC function through mentorship, strategic influence, and repeatable playbooks and tools. You will partner with AEs and AMs, Sales Leadership, Customer Success, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to architect end-to-end solutions, from discovery through customer onboarding and expansion. You will also help scale the Solution Consulting team by building repeatable playbooks and tools, documenting best practices, and mentoring peers. What You’ll Do Discovery & Value Selling – Lead technical and business discovery to uncover pain, success metrics, and buying criteria. Align Apollo’s platform to ROI, operational efficiency, and revenue impact through tailored narratives and demos, presenting confidently to technical and non-technical executive audiences. Sales Partnership – Co-own complex deals with AEs by collaborating on deal strategy with a strong, informed point of view to influence stakeholders, navigate buying committees, and mitigate evaluation risk through deep cross-functional engagement. POC & Trial Execution – Design and run POC-based trials that validate business impact early, identify leading indicator success metrics, and accelerate decision-making. Facilitate the pre-sale to post-sale handoff to ensure smooth onboarding and expansion readiness for our customers. Technical Discovery & Solution Design – Engage technical stakeholders to design scalable, secure integrations. Produce system diagrams, data flows, and architecture recommendations that align with buyer objectives. Leverage REST APIs, CRM/marketing automation, and tools like Zapier or Workato to integrate Apollo into the GTM stack, decreasing customer time-to-value and long-term scalability. Product Strategy – Serve as the voice of the customer, advising on go-to-market solution optimization and surfacing actionable feedback from the field to influence product roadmap priorities, GTM strategy, and how Apollo wins and retains customers. Full-funnel Solution Management & Tooling – Co-create solutions that drive adoption, manage process change, and work closely with Onboarding and Success teams to mitigate post-sale risk and ensure customers achieve measurable value. Mentorship & Enablement – Coach peers on discovery, demos, and technical and solution strategy – while contributing to internal enablement sessions, building playbooks, demo environments, and competitive resources that elevate team performance and accelerate deals. Wh…