Associate Solutions Consultant II
Hybrid, Austin · Austin · USD 100,000-115,000 / year · 2+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 2, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Hybrid, Austin · Austin
- Salary
- USD 100,000-115,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- As an Associate Solutions Consultant II at Apollo.io, you will be the customer-facing technical expert and GTM presales advisor partnering with Account Executives to lead discovery, design tailored solutions, deliver demos, and guide technical validation.
- You will serve as a trusted advisor to prospects across multiple personas and technical environments, translating platform capabilities into real business value.
- This role involves helping shape Apollo from the inside out by partnering with Sales Leadership, Customer Success, Marketing, Product, and Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical and business discovery to uncover pain, success metrics, and buying criteria, aligning Apollo's platform to ROI through tailored narratives and demos.
- Design and run technical evaluations that validate business impact early, identify leading indicator success metrics, and accelerate buyer decision-making.
- Co-own complex deals with AEs by collaborating on deal strategy to influence stakeholders, navigate buying committees, and mitigate evaluation risk.
- Facilitate a seamless pre-sale to post-sale handoff by partnering with Onboarding and Success teams to mitigate post-sale risk, drive expansion readiness, and deliver measurable value.
- Serve as both the voice of the customer and a credible GTM thought leader, advising on go-to-market solution optimization and surfacing actionable field insights.
Requirements
- 2+ years in presales (Solution Consulting, Sales Engineering, or Technical Success) with a track record of owning and influencing SaaS deals in a GTM technology environment.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with AEs to influence and accelerate sales cycles.
- Knowledge of or experience with CRM integrations (Salesforce, Hubspot, Pipedrive), APIs, AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity), and sales/marketing automation tools.
- Familiarity with MEDDPICC or a similar structured sales methodology.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present credibly across multiple personas by adapting technical depth and storytelling to the audience.
- AI-Native Mentality: demonstrated track record of taking extreme ownership by embracing AI technology as a core part of how you work.
- A growth-oriented mindset: curious, coachable, and eager to develop technical depth and customer-facing skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting Commercial (SMB) or Mid-Market segments.
- Past experience at a fast-growing PLG or hybrid go-to-market SaaS company.
- Familiarity with any GTM/sales tech stack solution such as Prospecting & Data Enrichment (Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha, Clay, Cognism), Sales Engagement / Sequencing (Outreach, Salesloft), or Email Deliverability (Instantly, Lemlist, SendGrid, Smartlead).
- Recognized as a thought leader in sales technology, marketing automation, leveraging AI, or with RevOps / GTM best practices.
Benefits
- equity
- company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
- 401(k) plan
- at least 10 paid holidays per year
- flex PTO
- parental leave
- employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits
- global travel coverage
- life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance
- FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace model in Austin.
Skills
- Salesforce
- Hubspot
- Pipedrive
- APIs
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- MEDDPICC
- Apollo
- ZoomInfo
- Lusha
- Clay
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- Cognism
- Outreach
- Salesloft