Solutions Engineer, Advisory
At a glance
Mid-level Solutions & Sales Engineering role at Fieldguide. Remote, United States · full-time · $120,000–$235,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Partner with account executives to uncover prospect challenges and shape persuasive enterprise sales engagements
- Lead structured discovery, technical validations, product demonstrations, and responses to customer objections
- Help move opportunities forward by increasing sales velocity and supporting deal closure
- Guide complex enterprise onboarding alongside Customer Success and resolve difficult technical issues with product teams
- Feed prospect needs and industry trends into product decisions, while creating training content for the wider team
What you bring
- At least three years of customer-facing enterprise solutions engineering work with successful SaaS deal influence
- At least two years in risk advisory or assurance is required for this role
- Confidence presenting products to C-suite executives, with strong speaking, presentation, and executive communication skills
- Working knowledge of at least one major CRM, such as Salesforce or HubSpot
Who this fits
You’ll suit a highly visible pre-sales role if you can combine enterprise solutions engineering with risk advisory or assurance experience. The work calls for confident executive engagement, ambitious goal orientation, complex-business networking, and close collaboration across sales, customer success, product, engineering, and design. This is a remote role tied to San Francisco, and the stated annual pay range is $120,000 to $235,000.
From the employer
About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners, specifically in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We’re backed by top investors, including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity—in backgrounds and experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble, and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture we are building, seeking teammates who are not only strong in their own aptitudes, but who also care deeply about supporting each other’s growth.
As an early-stage startup employee, you’ll have the opportunity to help build the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by consolidating up to 50% of their work and improving work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you’ll find a home at Fieldguide.
About the Role:
The Fieldguide Solutions Engineer is the primary solution lead with customers and prospects in all markets. Our customers are some of the nation’s top enterprise firms and the product they select will be rapidly adopted by practitioners, and will have lasting impacts to their growing organization. Fieldguide’s business growth relies heavily on acquisition of new customers in all markets, and hence this is a highly visible pre-sales role.
As a Fieldguide platform expert, you will facilitate product demonstrations, convey our value proposition, and advise customers on industry best practices. The Solutions Engineer partners closely with Account Executives on all enterprise level customers. This role crafts impactful customer engagements that drive a high volume of adoption in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do:
Effectively partner with Account Executives to understand prospects’ challenges and articulate Fieldguide’s value proposition, vision, and strategy to prospects
Build credibility with technical champion at the prospect company
Understand and help orchestrate all phases of the sales cycle, including leading technical validations during the Proof of Value phase
Increase sales velocity and contribute to closing deals
Participate and contribute to the enterprise sales process, product, or best practices initiatives
Manage organized discoveries to uncover customer needs and requirements that relate to decision criteria and key business issues
Present and demonstrate the product in a persuasive way based on key messages, decision criteria, and key business issues, ensuring the product is presented competitively
Successfully manage customer questions and objections and resolve concerns
Partner with Customer Success to enable complex onboarding of enterprise customers
Partner with Sales and Marketing on deal strategies, and with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to work through challenging technical problems
Engage with product management to provide insight into prospect and customer needs and industry trends, influencing the roadmap for market success
Ensure that the roadmap is clear to customers as required to influence buying decisions
Provide leadership by creating content and trainings for key areas
Work with the extended team to ensure that they are successful and learn from your expertise
Embody Fieldguide’s core leadership principles and cultural values
About You:
3+ years of hands on customer facing enterprise solutions engineering experience, with demonstrated success persuading and influencing SaaS deals
2+ years of experience in risk advisory or assurance is a must.
Experience walking through product demonstrations with C-suite executives while maintaining poise and confidence
Intrinsically motivated to exceed goals, you don’t get intimidated, but rather get excited by ambitious goals
Undeniable executive presence with acute attention to what to say, and perhaps more importantly, how to say it. You have excellent speaking and presentation skills and a unique savviness for networking in complex business situations
Sales process and infrastructure experience, including excellent working knowledge of at least one leading CRM (Salesforce, Hubspot, etc)
You are a team player, and you are mission-first. You’re joining a hard-working team that trusts each other deeply. We won’t compromise on this
Preferred: Industry knowledge of assurance and advisory services, preferably with exposure to cybersecurity or regulatory standards
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