CareerPlan

Director, Solutions Engineering

ChicagoFull-time$214k–$260k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

Core

Lead the Solutions Engineering team to drive customer value realization, technical discovery, and complex multi-stakeholder sales cycles for an employee experience platform.

Role type

Director, Solutions Engineering (Leadership)

Builds

Customer value realization, scalable SE frameworks/playbooks, and AI-enabled team workflows

Domain

HR Tech / HCM / Employee Experience SaaS

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Team leadership & scaling, complex enterprise sales discovery, technical validation & demos, data-driven forecasting, AI tool adoption, cross-functional partnership

Preferred skills

HR tech/HCM domain knowledge, executive presence, psychological safety leadership

Technologies

Salesforce, Gong

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and hire Solutions Engineers; set team strategy and operating rhythm; join key customer meetings for technical discovery; raise standards for demos and value storytelling; align pre-sales and post-sales handoffs; build scalable assets like playbooks; partner with Sales/Product to improve win rates; translate customer feedback into product input.

Seniority

Director, hands-on leadership