Joel Truelson

PreSales Leader | Trusted Partner to Drive Durable Growth

Role
Senior Solutions Consultant at Zendesk
Location
Dallas, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Joel Truelson

As an executive growth-focused leader with 6+ years of experience in the technology sector, I am passionate about bringing forward thinking technologies to commercial businesses, ensuring companies operate at peak efficiency. My competencies include relationship building, brand positioning, and sales management.Key Achievement Include: Closed over $4.0M+ in ARR YTD (2025) at Pebl (Formerly Velocity Global). Top deal was for ~$450K that displaced the incumbent competitor software. Deal length was 4 months. Spearheaded organizational growth into the TOLA SMB Banking Sector at Capitalize Analytics. Responsible for net new relationships, new client growth, and establishing thought leadership within the Office of Finance for SMB Banks and Credit Unions. Ensured technical close of a 500 user deployment of Alteryx. Responsible for international relationship building to ensure global software deployment had effective ownership across nationalities.Key Technical Skills Include Deep understanding of technical demonstrations and aligning to customer pain points. Extensive experience in selling and negotiating EOR (Employer of Record) and Contractor Management (CM) solutions to the CxO level. Ability to navigate and simplify what can seem to be complex sales situations - including tight M&A deadlines, integration discussions (HCM / ERP / ATS / HRIS), varied global international benefits, and pricing discussions for large population transfers. Deep understanding of data analytics sales cycles (Alteryx / Snowflake / Databricks ) and multithreading various stakeholders. MEDDICC Sales Certified. Competent in SQL, APIs, and Architecture frameworks Very strong capability to sell against competitors and differentiate my companies value‍ Exceptional capacity to deliver value added demos for technical closePlease contact me through this profile if you wish to connect.

Experience

  1. Senior Solutions Consultant

    Zendesk

    Apr 2026 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

    Powering over AI customers and counting

Education

  • Baylor University

    Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems

    2015 — 2018

  • Southern Methodist University

    Master of Science in Accounting, Audit & Assurance

    2018 — 2019

  • The Cambridge School of Dallas

    High School Diploma

    2011 — 2015

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