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gucci-on-fleek 15 hours ago

Perhaps a sales engineer?

> I am just much more comfortable supporting existing software than building new software.

Having technical skills is required, but you'd be doing little to no coding or design work.

> Being an interface between business and tech.

A sales engineer matches this almost by definition.

> Just working with people in general!

The job is essentially entirely about working with people, both with the customers you're trying to sell to, and with the developers who are actually making the product.

pc86 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This also has the added benefit of making a lot of money even by engineering standards in the right organization. Looks for large enterprise companies where custom demos and new customer hypercare are standard. I've been on the other side of the table a few times and often pre-sales cycles are months long and contracts start in the $2-4M range. Those are the places where sales engineers will be treated as first-class citizens and not just "hey grab one of the engineers for this sales call."

Neywiny 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think I can second this. I was offered an FAE job (essentially the sales engineer of hardware) and they were going to pay me more money to write no code and spend most of my time in the road talking to people about products. But I like writing code. Presumably a great job for somebody who doesn't/can't.

idbnstra 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you usually need experience in sales to land a sales engineer job?

_override 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is honestly a career path I’ve never really considered, but after reading about it a little bit the role sounds like it would be right up my alley. I’m going to explore the market for sales engineers here in Sweden and see what kinds of roles are available. Thanks for your comment.