Hi team any tips for someone try to break into Sales Engineering from Customer Success (with a strong technical background) looking to hearing from you

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Start treating this like a sales job: identify people who work at the places of interest and who have been successful there, reach out and develop a relationship, and get their help with the interviews.

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I actually made a similar transition, so sharing what helped me:

Coming from Customer Success, you already have a big advantage, you understand customer problems, adoption, and value. What you need to build is the “pre-sales muscle.”

A few things that made the biggest difference for me:

Start shadowing Sales Engineers (demos, discovery calls, technical deep dives)

Learn how to translate business needs into solutions, not just support them post-sale

Practice demo storytelling, not features, but outcomes

Get comfortable with handling objections and thinking commercially, not just technically

Position your CS experience as value-driven, not support-driven


Also +1 to treating this like a sales motion, relationships and internal referrals matter a lot in breaking into SE roles.

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