Enterprise Solutions Engineer
The Opportunity
With so many organizations using Postman, we are looking for an exceptional Enterprise Solutions Engineer to join our team & help us support the growth of our enterprise business. You will partner with our sales team to promote an API-first development culture, nurture customer relationships, and guide Postman users in leveraging our platform to build their APIs most effectively. Ideally, we are looking for someone who lives & breathes APIs, has experience in enterprise sales, is comfortable with JavaScript & is an expert Postman user already!
In addition to working with a product that customers already know and love, our sales, customer success, product, and engineering teams will support you well in this role.
What You’ll Do
- Help drive enterprise sales by nurturing prospects & supporting Strategic & Enterprise customers
- Conduct discovery, qualification, technical demos, & proof of value workshops with prospective customers looking to embrace Postman for their API lifecycle
- Handle Postman technical questions or objections & provide solutions or workarounds to address customer needs
- Understand deeply our customer workflows today & how they can adopt API-first development best practices
- Share customer feedback with appropriate teams & provide general customer advocacy
- Remain up-to-date with the competitive landscape, current trends, & challenges in the API market
- Create proof of concept integrations, tooling, & workflows as needed to support prospective customers
- Maintain & develop customer sandbox environments & best practices for working with the product
- Act as a technical intermediary between sales & other teams to best fit our customer needs
About You
- 8+ years of enterprise sales/solutions engineering experience
- 4+ years of software development experience
- 4+ API’s and Data platforms experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or relevant work experience
- Remote work friendly, with the ability to travel up to 50%
- Loves teamwork & collaboration in a fast-paced environment
- Customer-facing experience & comfortable engaging all levels of technologists, including individual developers, QA, product, & engineering leaders
- Experience engaging senior management & executive audiences to convey Postman's value proposition
- Capable of forging deep, long-lasting relationships with Strategic customers
- Strong understanding of APIs, & experience with producing & consuming APIs across different domains
- Strong understanding of modern development methodologies & DevOps with an appreciation of the software development life cycle
- Comfortable with the enterprise SaaS sales process & common security concerns of cloud services
- Experience executing enterprise sales strategies & sales methodologies like MEDDIC, Challenger Sale, Command of the Message, etc.
- Excellent listener who seeks to understand what a customer is trying to achieve rather than pre-supposing solutions
- Familiar with typical developer tooling: IDEs, Git, CI/CD, monitoring services, microservices, containers, cloud computing services, etc.
- Fast learner, excited & willing to learn new technology on an ongoing basis
- Excellent communication skills (presentation, verbal & written)
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $200,000 to $245,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.