Jesse Elsasser

About Jesse Elsasser

I’m a Solutions Architect who delivers by working side by side. I partner with sales, engineering, and delivery to lock in goals and build the right plan. I design simple, secure solutions across data, voice, cloud, mobility, and managed services, and I keep the why in plain language so everyone stays aligned.I support 250+ account managers from Texas to Tennessee to the Carolinas and everything in between. I co-lead discovery, shape clear business cases, and align pricing, terms, and specs. I stay with the team through launch, track milestones, and fix issues early.I also partner with sales leadership to ramp new hires to speed and drive outlier performance. I share playbooks, run deal reviews, and turn wins into repeatable steps.All opinions are my own!

Experience

1. Principal Manager - Sales Engineer

   Verizon Business

   Jan 2025 — Present · US

   Partner with sales to surface customer business challenges and translate them into clear technical requirements• Facilitate Sales Enablement programs to accelerate new hire ramp time, while elevating outlier performance• Lead discovery and define target architectures across data, voice, security, IT, mobility, and managed services• Design end-to-end solutions that balance performance, security, scalability, and cost; align stakeholders on trade-offs• Build ROI/TCO business cases and guide customers to confident solution decisions• Draft proposals and agreements, including pricing, SLAs/service commitments, and detailed technical specifications• Own the technical program plan from pre-sale through handoff, managing milestones, risks, and dependencies to deliver on promises• Grow revenue by enabling new-logo wins and expanding existing accounts through consistent customer outcomes and service quality

Education

• Capella University

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General

  2019