
Principal Sales Engineer
Pantheon Platform
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $142,000 - $178,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead technical strategy and execution on Pantheon's most complex enterprise opportunities, including multi-product portfolio deals, competitive displacements, and large-scale migrations.
- Develop and deliver tailored technical narratives, demos, POCs, and proof-of-value engagements for strategic accounts.
- Build and present technical proposals, RFP responses, and TCO analyses for high-value pursuits.
- Navigate complex buying committees across developer, marketing, and CIO/CTO personas.
- Partner with Professional Services, Customer Success, and Product to ensure technical feasibility and successful handoffs.
- Capture and codify successful technical strategies from complex enterprise deals, establishing new playbooks and global best practices for the broader Sales Engineering organization.
- Act with broad independence, making key decisions to define and shape organizational and functional standards, while leading complex, large-scale projects that influence GTM strategy and product roadmap across functions.
- Act as a trusted advisor, establishing systems for customer feedback loops to proactively identify and propose solutions for new problem spaces.
- Define and build scalable systems for Sales Engineer enablement and continuous improvement across the organization.
- Represent Pantheon within the broader technical community — defining Pantheon’s technical narrative on modern web architecture and field enablement.
- Provide deep, continuous mentorship and coaching to Sales Engineers across the organization, raising the bar for technical quality and strategic engagement on complex opportunities.
Requirements
- 10+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Consulting, or a customer-facing technical role within SaaS or enterprise software.
- Proven ability to drive technical wins and revenue impact in complex, consultative sales cycles.
- Strong technical acumen across modern web infrastructure, CMS, and development workflows (WordPress, Drupal, Next.js).
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills — able to translate technical value for business and technical audiences alike.
- Deep curiosity and a growth mindset; comfortable navigating ambiguity and learning continuously.
- Collaborative, team-first approach with a bias for action and measurable outcomes
- Proven track record of proactive ownership in identifying new problem spaces (e.g., process gaps, competitive threats, technical enablement deficits) and designing scalable, measurable, organization-wide solutions.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% for client engagements, conferences, and internal leadership sessions.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits
- Flexibility to balance travel, in-person collaboration, and remote work.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Sales EngineeringSolutions Consultingtechnical strategytechnical narrativesproof-of-concepttechnical proposalsTCO analysismodern web infrastructureCMSdevelopment workflows
Soft Skills
communication skillspresentation skillscollaborativeteam-first approachproactive ownershipcuriositygrowth mindsetability to navigate ambiguitymentorshipcoaching