Solutions Engineering Director Jobs

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next. Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills. People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards. About the Role HackerRank is scaling its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function globally. We are hiring a Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (Global) to set the strategy, standards, and execution bar for this team. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead the global FDE function, directly manage FDEs in the U.S., and partner closely with regional GMs in EMEA and APAC. What you’ll do Lead, coach, and grow a team of FDEs that lead customer engagements (pre- and post-sales) to define and deliver solutions. Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to shape solutions that solve real customer problems. Work with Product and Engineering to incorporate customer-specific solutions into the product roadmap. Provide hands-on technical leadership across APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities. Elevate how we run demos, proofs of concept, and onsite engagements. Build repeatable playbooks, delivery standards, and best practices to move fast at scale. Who you are A seasoned technical leader with 8+ years in engineering, solutions engineering, or technical delivery, and 2+ years leading high-performing technical teams. Obsessed with operating alongside the team, reviewing designs, challengi

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta SLED Accounts Solutions Engineering Team Okta Solutions Engineering team members have the rare combination of technical savviness and business insight and will hone each of these skills through advising a diverse set of customers on what is possible using Okta’s Identity Platform. We believe that Okta’s Solutions Engineers must empathize with customers and quickly discern their true technical needs by asking detailed and clarifying questions and presenting solutions that target those needs. The Okta Solution Engineering Manager Opportunity Reporting to the Director of Solutions Engineering for Public Sector Accounts, this role will lead a team of Solution Engineers, working with Okta’s State, Local, and Higher Education (SLED) accounts across the US. Our Solutions Engineering leaders are adept at seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies. They are particularly results focused and partner closely with our Sales leadership to create and execute a plan of action to achieve our growth targets. What you’ll be doing Solution Engineering leaders prioritize the success of their team. You are responsible for working with your team on their professional growth through defined development plans and experiences. You own and report on the business impact of your team as they work with prospects who are evaluating the Okta identity platform. Team activities include demonstrations, technical dee

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. As a Senior Manager, Solution Engineering, you will: Hire, coach, and inspire a high-performing team of Solution Engineers, driving career development, performance management, and continuous skill enablement. Support and coach your SEs as they partner with Account Executives to discover customer pain points, develop opportunities, and secure the technical win. Partner directly with senior customer technical leaders on strategic opportunities to articulate Okta’s platform value and secure technical buying decisions. Build deep relationships with key partner technical sales leaders to establish Okta as their preferred identity security standard. Partner with aligned Area Sales Directors to design, execute, and scale Go-To-Market strategies that consistently exceed regional booking targets. Align with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and peer SE managers to share best practices, track market trends, and support organizational scaling. Present on key Identity & Access Management (IAM) and cybersecurity topics at Okta events and industry conferences. Collaborate with HR, Finance, and Operations on workforce planning, budget alignment, and talent acquisition strategies. Serve as an ambassador between the field and headquarters, funneling critical customer feedback and product requirements directly to Okta's Product and Engineering teams. We are looking for demonstrable experience in: A proven track record of managing and scaling high-performing Solution or

If you've built and scaled high-performing solution engineering teams in the Financial Services & Insurance (FSI) domain, and you're energized by leading at the intersection of AI, technical selling, compliance, and customer experience, this is your moment. Duties and Responsibilities: Report to the Sr. Director of Solutions Engineering, Americas Lead, coach, and mentor a team of solution engineers, building a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and customer obsession Drive scalable pre-sales motions across a high-volume FSI segment, developing repeatable methodologies and best practices that enable the team to perform consistently across diverse industries Recruit, hire, and onboard top solution engineering talent, with a deliberate focus on candidates who combine technical depth with exceptional communication and storytelling ability Partner closely with RVP’s of Sales, Account Executives, and Customer Success to align on pipeline strategy, account coverage, and customer outcomes Collaborate with Product and Engineering to surface commercial customer feedback, advocate for roadmap priorities, and ensure timely resolution of feature requests and support escalations Work cross-functionally with Professional Services to ensure smooth handoffs from pre-sales to implementation and value realization Define and manage team KPIs, forecast accuracy, and performance metrics; use data to continuously optimize team effectiveness Participate actively in forecast calls, providing visibility into technical deal status, surfacing risks early, and partnering with Sales to develop mitigation strategies Develop trust with client leadership to remove roadblocks, navigate escalations, and ensure long-term customer success and loyalty Qualifications: 7+ years of experience in Solution Engineering / Pre-Sales, with at least 3–5+ years in people management leading teams Deep domain expertise in Financial Services & Insurance (FSI), with proven success navigating compl

MKTQ427R50 As the Director of Technical Marketing at Databricks, you will lead and scale the team responsible for explaining Databricks products, and what you can do with them, at scale to technical buyers and practitioners (from data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to solutions architects, platform teams, security engineers, and application developers). You will own the strategy and execution of technical content in written and video form, demos, workshops, launch storytelling, and outbound evangelism that drives technical mindshare, consideration, product adoption, and ultimately pipeline. In the era of agentic marketing and AEO/GEO, your team will increasingly produce content designed to educate both humans and agents alike. You will also play an outsized role in programming the technical content for key Databricks events, such as the Data + AI Summit and Data + AI World Tour, among others. Reporting to the SVP of Product & Solutions Marketing, you will manage a team of 6+ Technical Marketing Managers (growing) and serve as the connective tissue between Product, Product Marketing, Field Engineering, and the broader technical community. This role expands the traditional TMM charter to include a stronger outbound evangelism dimension, becoming a visible, trusted technical voice externally through social media, YouTube, conferences, and the data practitioner ecosystem while continuing to own the core technical content engine that powers Summit, World Tour, workshops, and field enablement. The impact you will have: First 6 months: Assess the current TMM team's strengths, gaps, and capacity; establish a clear operating model with defined ownership areas (product coverage, content types, GEO) and a quarterly planning cadence. Own and deliver the technical content agenda for Data + AI World Tour and/or the next major Tier 1 event, achieving ≥4.5/5.0 average session ratings and measurable pipeline contribution. Launch or significantly expand at least 2 n

About the Role As an Account Director for Higher Education in AMER, you will own strategic relationships with colleges, universities, and higher education systems as they move from AI experimentation to responsible, institution-wide transformation. You will work with presidents, provosts, CIOs, CTOs, academic and administrative leaders, researchers, security teams, and procurement stakeholders to define priority use cases, build the technical and governance foundation for deployment, and translate institutional goals into a multi-year AI transformation roadmap. You will own the commercial and customer journey end to end—from territory strategy, pipeline creation, and executive alignment through evaluation, procurement, deployment, adoption, consumption, value realization, and expansion. This is a deeply technical, consultative sales role. You will be expected to understand AI capabilities and limitations, integration patterns, data governance, privacy, security, and change management; partner effectively with technical experts; and remain accountable for measurable customer and revenue outcomes after signature. In this role, you will: Own and execute the AMER higher education territory and account strategy, prioritizing institutions where OpenAI can support meaningful, responsible, and scalable transformation. Create pipeline and lead complex, multi-threaded new-business and expansion opportunities from first engagement through procurement, deployment, adoption, and value realization. Engage credibly with presidents, provosts, CIOs, CTOs, academic leaders, researchers, administrators, security teams, legal, procurement, finance, and end-user champions. Lead cross-functional pursuit and account teams across Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Research, Security, Legal, and other functions to design evaluations, pilots, technical validation, executive business cases, production deployments, and adoption plans. Translate AI model and platform capabilities

The Team + The Role The Enterprise Sales team at Pendo partners with some of the world’s largest organizations to improve and transform their digital experiences. The team operates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and works closely with Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Legal, Product, and executive leadership to drive meaningful business outcomes. Enterprise Sales values clear execution, strong partnership, and disciplined sales practices to win complex enterprise opportunities. As Enterprise Account Director for the French market, you will report to our RVP Enterprise Sales, EMEA, and have direct lines of communication with our CEO, CTO, VP of Product, EMEA Managing Director, and any other resources needed to close business. This team owns the full sales cycle for Pendo’s largest customers and prospects across the French Enterprise business segment - a critical growth area for the company. The profile we're hiring is not a relationship manager or a renewals person. It's a hunter — someone who can open doors at CAC 40 and mid-cap enterprise level, earn trust at C-suite and VP level, and build a pipeline from nothing in parallel to working the existing customer base. This role is a hybrid position based 3 days per week in our London office. What this looks like day-to-day Enterprise deal leadership: Act as the internal lead for complex enterprise opportunities, coordinating cross-functional partners across Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Legal, Product, and executive leadership. You keep the team aligned, the deal strategy clear, and the process moving with urgency and discipline. Executive relationship building: Build and maintain strong relationships across the C-suite, IT, and business leadership within organizations of 1,500+ employees. You understand stakeholder priorities and connect Pendo’s value to meaningful business outcomes. Value-based selling: Lead sales cycles focused on solving meaningful business problems and supportin

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity As Senior Director of Enterprise Sales, you will lead one of Postman’s most critical growth engines. You will be responsible for setting enterprise sales strategy, scaling and developing senior sales leaders and Enterprise Account Executives, and delivering predictable, durable revenue growth across large, complex organizations. This role is designed for a proven second-line sales leader who can operate at both a strategic and operational level—aligning executive vision with frontline execution while partnering closely with Product, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success. Location: This is a fully remote role. What You’ll Do Own Enterprise revenue outcomes, consistently delivering against quarterly and annual bookings targets. Lead, mentor, and develop Directors, Managers, and senior Enterprise sellers, building a deep leadership bench. Define and evolve Enterprise sales strategy, including segmentation, coverage models, account allocation, and capacity planning. Establish operating rigor across forecasting, pipeline inspection, deal reviews, and execution cadence. Drive excellence in

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity As Senior Director of Enterprise Sales, you will lead one of Postman’s most critical growth engines. You will be responsible for setting enterprise sales strategy, scaling and developing senior sales leaders and Enterprise Account Executives, and delivering predictable, durable revenue growth across large, complex organizations. This role is designed for a proven second-line sales leader who can operate at both a strategic and operational level—aligning executive vision with frontline execution while partnering closely with Product, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success. Location: This is a fully remote role. What You’ll Do Own Enterprise revenue outcomes, consistently delivering against quarterly and annual bookings targets. Lead, mentor, and develop Directors, Managers, and senior Enterprise sellers, building a deep leadership bench. Define and evolve Enterprise sales strategy, including segmentation, coverage models, account allocation, and capacity planning. Establish operating rigor across forecasting, pipeline inspection, deal reviews, and execution cadence. Driv

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is a tech company with a human story to tell. We’re here to empower teams to manage projects, automate workflows, and rapidly build new secure solutions, using simple no-code tools. We’re revolutionaries – so for us, changing the way the world works is all in a day’s work. As a global leader in Intelligent Work Management with a market cap of $10bn, we’ve continued to scale our engineering presence internationally. Since expanding into Bulgaria in October 2024, we’ve grown to a team of 75+ engineers. As we continue expanding into Bulgaria and build our operation, we're searching for a talented and motivated Engineering Manager. Our business is built on finding exceptional talent and empowering them to build and improve our service offerings. You will work remotely from Bulgaria and will be reporting to an Engineering Director. You Will: Manage a team of software engineers to deliver great products to our customers Oversee the development and success of one or more products Lead, coach, and inspire your team to achieve quality software Collaborate with partners across the company, including product management, UX, and customer teams Establish lean engineering processes that use collaboration and rapid iteration to build the right product for the right problems Hire and grow your team by promoting engineering excellence and career development You Have: You have 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams. You have deep software development skills in at least one s

About the Team OpenAI's GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem to accelerate customer success, enable enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth in support of OpenAI's mission toward AGI. We work cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Marketing, Customer Success, and Sales to turn strategic partnerships into measurable business outcomes. This role sits within the GTM Partnerships organization and is responsible for leading OpenAI's strategic relationships with three of the world's largest Global Systems Integrators (GSIs): HCLTech, Wipro, and Cognizant . These partners play a critical role in helping enterprise customers design, deploy, and scale AI solutions by combining OpenAI's technology with deep industry expertise, consulting capabilities, and global delivery organizations. This role reports to the Head of GSIs and will be responsible for driving executive alignment, joint go-to-market strategy, commercial execution, and scalable partnership programs across these strategic accounts. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, HCL, Wipro & Cognizant to lead and grow three of OpenAI's most strategic Global Systems Integrator partnerships. You will own executive relationships, develop and execute joint business plans, and drive coordinated go-to-market motions that accelerate customer adoption and revenue growth. This is a highly strategic, externally facing role that requires a blend of executive relationship management, commercial leadership, operational excellence, and ecosystem expertise. You'll work closely with OpenAI Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Marketing, Legal, Security, and partner leadership teams to build repeatable motions that generate pipeline, enable successful customer deployments, and deepen long-term strategic alignment. The ideal candidate understands how large consulting organizations operate, has experience driving revenue through strategic partn

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Go-to-Market team helps organizations understand, adopt, and deploy OpenAI’s technology to solve meaningful business challenges and create lasting value. The Technology team works with leading software, internet, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, semiconductor, and digital-native companies as they build new AI-powered products, transform internal operations, and rethink how they serve their customers. We partner with executives, product leaders, engineers, and go-to-market teams to help organizations integrate OpenAI’s capabilities into their products and businesses responsibly and at scale. The team collaborates closely with Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Research, Partnerships, Marketing, and Operations to turn customer priorities into successful, durable deployments. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Account Director, Tech to help build and grow OpenAI’s business across the technology industry. You will own relationships with a portfolio of strategic technology companies, helping executive, product, and technical leaders understand how OpenAI’s products can accelerate innovation, improve productivity, and create differentiated customer experiences. You will be responsible for developing account strategies, creating qualified pipeline, navigating complex enterprise sales cycles, and expanding adoption across products, teams, and use cases. This role requires a combination of enterprise sales leadership, technical fluency, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate credibly with both business and engineering stakeholders. You should be comfortable engaging with customers that have sophisticated technical environments, rapidly evolving AI strategies, and high expectations for product performance, security, reliability, and scale. Success in this role will be measured by revenue growth, depth of customer adoption,

At Datadog, we don’t just support our products, we master them. As Datadog’s in-house product experts, the Technical Escalation Engineering (TEE) team plays a critical role in driving our global success. We enable our customers, from the world’s most innovative startups to the largest enterprises, to harness the full power of Datadog’s platform, ensuring their growth, reliability, and performance. Through deep technical expertise, relentless problem-solving, and exceptional customer engagement, we educate, guide, and troubleshoot, delivering high-impact solutions that shape the customer experience. Whether through hands-on technical call, in-depth fact findings meeting, or complex investigations, we set the gold standard for technical excellence and customer advocacy. As part of our TEE team, you’ll tackle the most challenging technical problems, collaborate directly with Engineering and Product to refine and evolve our platform, and mentor teams worldwide, elevating the technical bar at every level. This is not just a support role; this is a career-defining opportunity to push boundaries, grow as an expert, and make a tangible impact on both our customers and Datadog’s future. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Manage, develop, coach and mentor Technical Escalation Engineers and/or people managers and their teams who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 400+ integrations Partner with Technical Engineering Director colleagues and VP of Support Engineering on strategic, global initiatives at scale Ensure the successful onboarding and development of Technical Escalation Engineers Oversee all projects and initiatives within the region, as well as cross regional ones, and functional a

The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of our pre- and post-sales motion. The team brings together responsibilities previously split across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical ownership model. Customer Engineering is a growth function focused on customer health, retention, expansion, and technical partnership. As Manager, Customer Engineering, you will lead a team of Customer Engineers and be accountable for their aggregate output while staying close to the work. You will translate team goals into individual assignments, coach direct reports on technical and commercial skills, and run the day-to-day operating rhythm for your pod. This is a people leadership role where your team’s output is your output. This is a role based in-office in Sydney or Remote in Melbourne. What this looks like day-to-day Team output and account health: Own the aggregate health, retention, and expansion outcomes for the accounts your team manages. Ensure Customer Engineering coverage is adequate, account risks are surfaced early, and no account falls through the cracks. People development: Coach and develop P2 through P4 Customer Engineers through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, performance management, and individual development plans. Identify skill gaps and partner with enablement to address them. Operational rhythm: Run the team’s operating cadence, including weekly account reviews, pipeline syncs with Account Directors, escalation triage, and capacity planning. Maintain documentation standards and Salesforce hygiene across the team. Hiring and onboarding: Partner with recruiting to hire strong Customer Engineers and own the onboarding experience for new team members. Ensure new hires become productive within expected ramp timelines. Account Director partnership: Serve as the management counterpart to Account Director leadership for your pod. Resolve cross-functional fricti

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Sales Engineering Manager to join our team. This is a remote role (Based in Paris, France), reporting to the Sales Engineering Director in the Solutions Consulting department. In this role, you will act as a strategic technical leader across the region, driving business performance and improving technical win rates. You will partner closely with Sales leadership to align resources with regional growth strategies while actively coaching and developing a high-performing team of Sales Engineers. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Own the end-to-end technical sales cycle across the region, ensuring opportunities are qualified, progressed, and executed with appropriate rigor, governance, and adherence to established Sales Engineering processes, including proof-of-value planning, execution, and success measurement through the Team and the Channel Partners. Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Sales