Sales Engineer Apprentice (M/F)

Paris

SESAMm

SESAMm (www.sesamm.com) extracts behavioral insights from millions of unstructured text data sources across the public internet in over 100 languages, helping clients distill valuable intelligence on businesses and their customers to make investment decisions and manage risk.
We work with many well-known firms around the world in private equity, investment banking, insurance, and asset management to apply Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence algorithms to track e-reputation, competitive positioning, sentiment analysis, risk and ESG factors.

SESAMm is growing quickly, with 70 team members around the globe and offices in Paris, New York, London, Metz, Tunis, and Tokyo.

Key technologies: Alternative Data, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Quantitative Analysis.

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you dream of joining a growing company, proposing new ideas, and taking part in innovative processes?

At SESAMm, everyone brings their ideas, skills, and creativity. We value collaboration, support, and teamwork. We learn every day from the experience of this great team and we constantly take up new challenges. We are proud of the work accomplished and to participate in the success of this great adventure!

The Sales Engineer Apprentice Role

As part of the Sales Engineering team, your role will be at the intersection of sales and engineering, articulating technology and client needs at the executive, business, and technical levels. You will help drive and manage the technology evaluation stage of the sales process, in close collaboration with Sales, Product team and Marketing. By accompanying clients (quantitative analysts and data scientists) in their entire journey, you will help generate cross-sell and upsell opportunities.

You will be joining a rapidly expanding team early in its growth cycle, which means you will have an opportunity to shape the team’s culture.

Key Activities

  • Sales Engineering
    • Assess technical needs of clients in collaboration with our engineering teams and create relevant offerings
    • Create and deliver dataset and all supporting documentation to clients during the commercial discussions 
    • Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
    • Transfer and clearly express customer requirements to engineering teams
    • Remain knowledgeable and up-to-date on changes and developments on our technologies and products
    • Provide relevant feedback and propose functional improvements to our products
    • Collaborate with Marketing to create impactful documents including technical information about our products
    • Develop and improve Sales Engineering processes
    • Participate in impactful product demonstrations that tell a compelling story and help steer customers to a commercial relationship
    • Assisting the account management team in ensuring client satisfaction

Desired Background and Skills

Education

  • Master degree ideally finance/economics related, or Engineering degree, giving access to an apprenticeship opportunity

Experience

  • A first internship experience, ideally in a financial institution

Skills

  • Capable of understanding and articulating technology value propositions
  • Ability to tie business problems to technical solutions
  • Excellent communication and relationship skills: communicate with clients, understand their needs and issues, collaborate with internal teams
  • Fluent English speaker with good writing skills
  • Data Science and/or Quantitative Analysis background with some programming skills would be a plus

Benefits of Working at SESAMm

Flexibility: Team members can work remotely and have the opportunity to work with colleagues around the world.

Work environment: SESAMm is multicultural, with technology, sales, and management teams in the US, France, and Tunisia making important contributions to the company’s growth.

Career development: SESAMm is growing quickly, which means the opportunities for your own growth are continually expanding, and that you can shape the company’s culture and evolution.

Professional evolution: SESAMm values training and knowledge-sharing. We organize internally and externally led training sessions and pay for access to educational platforms.

Transparency: You will be kept apprised of the company’s continuing evolution and performance through monthly “Ask Me Anything” meetings, frequent business/finance updates, and strategy-sharing discussions.

Well-being: Building a good culture is key to building a good business at SESAMm. We focus on being a learning organization that values and supports teamwork, thoughtfulness, and work/life balance.

Job Specifics

  • Location: Paris
  • Type of contract: Apprenticeship
  • Start Date: September 2025

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