Director of Solutions Engineering
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for an experienced Director of Solutions Engineering to lead a high-performing, globally distributed SE team — currently ~10 strong and growing — across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of sales, product, and customer success — responsible for driving technical win rates, elevating the quality of our pre-sales engagements, and building the processes and people that scale a world-class SE organization.
This person will serve as the technical authority within the go-to-market motion, partnering tightly with Sales, Product/Engineering, and Customer Success leadership to ensure our solutions are positioned, demonstrated, and validated in ways that win.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a growing global SE team across NA, EMEA, and APAC, with direct management responsibility
- Build a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and customer obsession
- Establish clear career paths and performance frameworks for the SE team
- Hire and onboard top SE talent as the business scales
Pre-Sales Execution & Technical Win Rate
- Own the technical win rate metric and drive strategies to improve it across all regions
- Establish consistent standards for discovery, demos, POCs/POVs, and technical evaluations
- Personally engage in strategic and complex enterprise opportunities as executive SE sponsor
- Define and enforce qualification criteria for SE time and resource allocation
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner with Sales leadership to align SE capacity to pipeline, territories, and deal strategy
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to close the feedback loop between field insights and roadmap prioritization
- Work with CS leadership to ensure seamless technical handoffs that set customers up for success post-sale
- Represent the SE team in executive and cross-functional forums; contribute...