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Senior Sales Engineer

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full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BurlingtonMassachusettsNorth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $132,600 - $163,800 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Lead sophisticated discovery conversations with customers to uncover complex business challenges, workflows, and strategic objectives
  • Translate ambiguous or high-level business problems into clearly defined solution opportunities
  • Guide customers toward outcome-focused thinking rather than feature-level requirements
  • Analyze customer environments, architectures, and processes to identify high-value, differentiated use cases
  • Map product capabilities to customer business practices, industry patterns, and long-term strategic goals
  • Design solution approaches that balance customer needs, technical feasibility, scalability, and future growth
  • Deliver tailored, compelling demonstrations for technical and business audiences, including senior stakeholders
  • Clearly articulate why the solution matters—linking capabilities to business impact, efficiency gains, and ROI
  • Adapt demonstrations dynamically based on customer feedback, questions, and priorities
  • Apply strong technical knowledge across SaaS and data platforms, including hands-on familiarity with PHP-based applications and environments
  • Partner effectively with Engineering and Product to address complex technical questions and edge cases
  • Act as a strategic partner to Sales, helping shape account strategy, solution positioning, and expansion opportunities
  • Lead the technical aspects of complex or enterprise deals, including proof points, solution validation, and risk identification
  • Participate in account planning and customer strategy sessions to ensure alignment on business outcomes and solution approach
  • Educate customers on best practices, advanced use cases, and architectural considerations
  • Support the development of business cases, ROI models, and value narratives to inform customer decision-making
  • Help customers understand not just the solution, but how to successfully adopt and operationalize it
  • Serve as a mentor and informal leader for junior presales team members
  • Capture insights from customer engagements and feed them back to Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and improvements
  • Document reusable use cases, demo patterns, and success stories to raise the overall effectiveness of the presales organization

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a presales or sales engineering role, supporting complex or enterprise customer engagements
  • Strong technical foundation with experience in PHP-based applications, SaaS platforms, and data-driven solutions
  • Ability to quickly understand customer architectures and explain technical concepts in business-friendly terms
  • Demonstrated success leading discovery sessions and shaping solution approaches
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience partnering closely with Sales to influence deal outcomes
  • Strong curiosity and continuous-learning mindset
  • Collaborative, team-oriented approach with a willingness to mentor others
  • Familiarity with CRM tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.)
  • Willingness to travel occasionally for key customer engagements (as applicable)
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
  • Financial benefits (including 401(k) retirement savings plan)
  • Tuition Reimbursement program
  • Additional voluntary benefits including crucial illness/hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal, and pet insurance
  • Competitive salary, uncapped commission, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback
  • Flexible paid vacation time and paid day off for your birthday
  • A variety of leave plans, including Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee well-being program focusing on physical, mental, and financial health
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PHPSaaSdata-driven solutionssolution validationrisk identificationbusiness case developmentROI modelingtechnical feasibilitysolution designuse case documentation
Soft Skills
communicationstorytellingpresentationcollaborationmentoringcuriositycontinuous learningcustomer engagementstrategic thinkingadaptability