• Creating and defining a Technological Strategy on pre-assigned clients, with a primary focus on the priority areas of HPE Networking. • Creating and documenting technology solutions and proposals designed to meet your customer’s business requirements. • Implementing and supporting customer Proof of Concept engagements, proving that HPE technical solutions meet and exceed customer business requirements. • Maintaining knowledge of competitive solution offerings allowing you to strategically position the correct HPE products and highlight HPE differentiators and advantages. • Interfacing with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development. • Participating in proposal development and supporting the technical aspects related to deal closure in complex and competitive deal pursuit situations. • Understanding the HPE channel and creating relationships, with HPE partners, to increase sales via the channel.

Devoted Studios is a globally remote game development company specializing in Co-development, Porting, and End-to-End Art Production for the global gaming industry. With a distributed team we collaborate across time zones to support projects on all major platforms, engines and styles - from AAA titles to emerging technologies. Our team includes world-class talents who bring deep expertise in external development, pipeline optimization, and creative problem-solving. Whether it’s porting games to new systems, enhancing gameplay features, or crafting stunning visuals, Devoted Studios operates as a trusted, flexible extension of our partners’ internal teams. We are proud to be the development partner of choice for industry leaders such as: - 2K - Xbox - Meta - Obsidian Entertainment - Turtle Rock Studios - Gearbox Software At Devoted Studios, we’re committed to making outsourcing more efficient, collaborative, and impactful. If you're passionate about co-development, game art, or solving technical challenges on a global scale. We are hiring a Systems Designer with expertise in economy design, monetization, and player progression to support live and evolving games across our co-development partnerships. You will design, tune, and maintain the systems that shape player engagement, reward structures, and long-term progression, ensuring they are balanced, sustainable, and clearly communicated. This is a collaborative, data-informed role at the intersection of player motivation, system health, and live game performance. Key Responsibilities: - Design and own player progression systems, including XP curves, unlock pacing, milestone rewards, progression loops, and long-term engagement structures. - Build, tune, and maintain in-game economies, including currencies, sinks and sources, item valuation, reward distribution, and exchange systems. - Design monetization systems and content structures that align with player trust and support long-term engagement, including seasonal content, stores, passes, and other live-service offerings where applicable. - Support the planning and tuning of recurring content, live events, and gameplay incentives tied to seasonal or rotating content strategies. - Partner with design, product, production, and live operations teams to model the impact of new features, content, and reward changes before release. - Create and maintain economy models, balance sheets, simulation tools, and tuning documentation to support implementation and decision-making. - Analyze live data, player behavior, and feedback to identify economy drift, progression friction, reward imbalance, or missed monetization opportunities. - Propose and implement tuning changes that improve clarity, retention, engagement, and overall system health. - Help investigate and resolve player-facing issues related to rewards, progression, economy balance, exploits, and other live-service concerns.

• Design, build, and refine complex pricing models in SQL and Looker to automate and enhance the accuracy of client savings projections. • Translate business requirements from stakeholders into technical specifications for the development and validation of our Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) in collaboration with the Data Analytics and Engineering groups. • Coordinate directly with Data and Engineering teams to ensure pricing logic is aligned with broader company data architecture and product roadmaps. • Contribute to the evolution of the Pricing Analytics codebase, adhering to best practices for development, rigorous audit protocols, and code reviews to ensure "client-ready" accuracy across all automated tools. • Maintain a transparent project roadmap for pricing tool enhancements and create detailed technical documentation for all pipelines and internal logic. • Provide "Tier 3" technical support to the Submission Pod, stepping in for highly complex ad-hoc analyses or during peak volume periods to ensure queue stability. • Execute deep-dive analyses and investigations into large datasets and provide clear insights on findings. • Communicate clearly with internal stakeholders and external partners through email, Slack, phone, video call, and Jira. • Develop a complete understanding of reporting needs and work cross-functionally to scope projects and develop self-service BI reporting and automation whenever relevant. • Continuously analyze and evaluate existing reporting processes, identifying inefficiencies or gaps, and proactively deploying creative solutions to enhance operational effectiveness.

Role Description As a Pre-Sales Engineer, you will be responsible for managing pre-sales technical / functional support to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction. With a proven track record of successful sales support activity, the Pre-Sales Engineer will present and articulate the capabilities and values of a HPE Network Solution versus that of our competitors. The preferred candidate will have career level experience with networking infrastructure technologies in all arenas. The Pre-Sales Engineer will work with Territory Managers to qualify opportunities and convert leads into successful engagements. The Pre-Sales Engineer must combine excellent sales support and consultative skills with an expert understanding of advanced and emerging technologies with an emphasis on campus and distributed branch networks. The Systems Engineer will consult with their assigned Territory Manager to provide a comprehensive pitch to prospective clients. This Systems Engineer will proactively support an opportunity pipeline and drive through the sales process to closure. This position requires the ability to lead in a team environment and to collaborate on the development of innovative, tailored solutions for both clients and prospects. Incumbents must know how to gather the client data required to effectively tailor a solution. Solution selling is a must, and incumbents need to understand the various ways a solution may be delivered and have the ability to anticipate what will work best for a given client. By combining technical expertise with business acumen, this role provides vital, detailed information about how HPE Networking solutions deliver business value to our clients. Candidates must reside in Minnesota and be willing to travel within the territory on a regular basis. The territory will be all of Minnesota and North Dakota covering SLED K-12 and Local Government with significant emphasis on ERATE working with 2 assigned territory managers. Responsibilities - Manage account and partner responsibilities for selected accounts in assigned territory. - Provide the optimum combination of hardware, software, and services to meet complex customer needs. - Play a role in the development of the bid, proposal, and presentation of the solution to the prospect. - Provide specific solutions/technology/product/technical and sales support for accounts in assigned territory. - Deliver technical presentations to customers, partners, and potential prospects. - Manage channel partners to help drive business and deliver demand generation events. - Develop account relationships over time to continue to deliver advice to the customer and identify additional opportunities; maintain and manage a sales pipeline and forecasts against regional goals. - Possess competitive knowledge including solution, technology, and product offerings. - Provide consultative support to key internal/external stakeholders in assigned territory. - Use in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations. - Assist the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs. - Prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions. - Create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions. - Build and execute a proof of concept based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client. - Provide consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation. Qualifications - 5+ years of infrastructure engineering with focus on wireless, switching, security, network administration, and cloud solutions. - Some experience with successful pre-sales support and SLED is preferred. - Career level oral & written communication, organizational, presentation, prioritization, and interpersonal skills. - Must be customer focused and have the ability to design and manage solutions to complex technical issues. - Ability to interface with senior levels of internal/external organizations is required. Additional Skills - Accountability - Active Learning - Active Listening - Assertiveness - Building Rapport - Coaching - Complex Sales - Creativity - Critical Thinking - Cross-Functional Teamwork - Customer Experience Strategy - Design Thinking - Empathy - Financial Acumen - Follow-Through - Growth Mindset - Identifying Sales Opportunities - Industry Knowledge - Intellectual Curiosity - Long Term Planning - Managing Ambiguity Benefits - Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. - Personal & Professional Development: Investment in your career with specific programs to help you reach your career goals. - Unconditional Inclusion: Commitment to an inclusive work environment that values varied backgrounds.