Sales Engineer
150k – 275kNew York, NYSan Francisco, CAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary
Own technical proof and demo motion for enterprise deals. Lead technical discovery, configure and deliver customer demos, answer technical questions, and partner with AEs to close strategic sales.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Partner with Strategic AEs and executives from early discovery through product validation and close.
- Configure and run high impact customer-relevant demos using existing demo fixtures, demo data, and product surfaces.
- Lead technical discovery with enterprise prospects to deeply understand their requirements and pain points.
- Answer technical questions about how the system works across product surfaces, configuration, and integrations.
- Translate field learnings into reusable demo assets, evaluation playbooks, implementation patterns, and product feedback.
- Support sales outcomes by owning the technical component of the sales cycle and helping close enterprise deals.
- Travel to clients 25% of the time.
Qualifications
- 5-10+ years in sales engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, enterprise implementation, or customer-facing technical roles.
- Strong technical fluency with APIs, data models, integrations, SQL, cloud systems, workflow automation, and enterprise software architecture.
- Experience supporting complex enterprise evaluations and production deployments.
- Ability to communicate with executives, operators, and technical stakeholders.
- Strong systems thinking and customer empathy in messy operational environments.
- Comfort operating in a founder-led, high-ambiguity GTM motion.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401k plan.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits.
- Commuter benefits for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses.
- Company wide orientation and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback.
- Quarterly budgets for team and company outings.
- Flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays.
- 12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents - fully paid.
Skills
APIsData ModelsIntegrationsSQLCloud SystemsWorkflow AutomationEnterprise Software ArchitectureTechnical DiscoveryProduct DemonstrationsEnterprise Evaluations
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