Partner Solutions Engineer, EMEA

We are looking for a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer to join our partnerships team in EMEA. This role will lead enablement and pre-sales motions with Vercel's solution and consulting partners (SIs and GSIs) across the region, with a primary focus on the DACH market. Partner Solutions Engineers work with partner engineering, sales, and product teams to grow adoption of Vercel's products and build strong technical relationships. This role will serve as a developer advocate for Vercel across solution and consulting partners. You will be the expert on building and delivering with Vercel products, including AI and agent workloads, and will establish best practices, author guides, lead workshops and hackathons, and build solutions for partner communities and Vercel teams.

Responsibilities

Serve as subject matter expert on Vercel and Next.js to partner engineering teams and leadership across EMEA; Run Vercel's partner certification program in the region: deliver certification workshops, review certification projects, and guide partner engineers through the program; Create and deliver technical training and enablement on Next.js and Vercel best practices, including building agents and AI applications on Vercel; Deliver one-to-many technical workshops for partner engineering teams, and author the workshop content behind them; Run and support partner hackathons that build partner skills and surface joint solutions; Provide pre-sales support where partners are engaged: proofs of concept, technical deep dives, and deal unblocking alongside Vercel's sales and sales engineering teams; Serve as the main technical contact for SIs and GSIs in the region, building lasting relationships with their engineering teams and practice leadership; Build templates and solutions that equip partner communities with the best practices on delivering with Vercel

Requirements

Passionate about building first-class user experiences on the web; Strong understanding of web architecture, frontend development, and serverless computing; 4+ years of experience as a solutions engineer advising or consulting engineering teams; 6+ years of experience building and launching frontend applications using Next.js or React; Speak German and/or French with spoken fluency in at least one of them, alongside professional English; Worked with or within agencies, systems integrators, or consulting firms and understand how they staff, deliver, and grow a technology practice; Experienced in developer relations, from training sessions and talks to producing technical content; Results-driven mindset and experienced working in a fast-paced environment; Comfortable working with remote, globally distributed cross-functional teams; Excellent communication skills and experience building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders; Experience driving adoption of web technology or previous pre-sales experience; Based in EMEA and able to travel 20% of the time; Strong web development background, especially in frontend development, cloud infrastructure, networking, and modern application development; Strong coordination skills across multiple partners and time zones

Nice to have

Built and shipped AI-powered or agentic applications, ideally with the AI SDK; Speak both German and French; Run certification, training, or enablement programs at scale; Experience with composable architectures (headless CMS, commerce, search, analytics) common in partner-delivered projects

Benefits

Competitive compensation package, including equity; Inclusive Healthcare Package; Learn and Grow - mentorship and events to help build your network and skills; Flexible Time Off; Gear needed for the role and WFH budget