Automation Engineer - Professional Services

Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, dedicated to enhancing customer experience. The role of Automation Engineer in Professional Services involves engaging with customers to understand their needs and delivering AI and Custom Services projects tailored to those requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with customers to acquire a rich understanding of their problems, needs, and goals
• Deliver AI & Custom Services projects. E.g
• Design and configure applications on the Five9 platform for each customer’s unique requirements, often with integrations to third party platforms
• Provide customers with configuration advice and problem resolution on Five9 product
• Give customized training to ensure customers have a thorough understanding of these solutions
• Consulting engagements
• Effectively and succinctly communicate with both internal and external stakeholders
• Lead technical sessions and become a trusted advisor to decision makers while demonstrating mastery of the technical domain
• Handle pre-sales Statement of Work requests from creation to design document handoff. Includes ability to work with a client to gather true business requirements, determine the level of effort for a project and document a target solution

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a customer-facing position
• Knowledge of and experience implementing intelligent virtual agents, natural language understanding engines such as Google Dialogflow CX, Amazon Lex, IBM Watson, or Agent Assist platforms
• Ability to listen to a customer's request, separate the problem from the requested solution, visualize the available options and communicate the available options efficiently and distinctly
• Self-starter possessing excellent time management skills. Able to manage multiple activities simultaneously while requiring little or no oversight and/or direction
• Excellent English verbal and written skills
• Ability to learn new skills quickly and digest new product features without assistance
• An expert at developing positive and productive relationships with people
• Passion for continuous improvement both technically and professionally
• Knowledge of modern API standards (SOAP, XML, REST, JSON) and experience integrating to them
• Willing to travel up to 10% nationally with occasional international travel possible (valid passport required)
• Familiarity or technical certification in SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, networking, CRM, ACD, IVR and call center practices. Includes technical certifications in any related industry such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Salesforce
• Experience working on enterprise deployments involving multiple vendors
• A strong combination of technical call center expertise, client development, and configuration experience
• Creativity in solution architecture and design