Manager, Solutions Engineering

Hightouch Hightouch · Data AI · New York, NY · Sales

This role is for a Head of Solutions Engineering at Hightouch, an AI platform for marketing teams. The role focuses on leading and mentoring a team of Solutions Engineers to guide prospective customers through the pre-sales journey, deliver customized demonstrations, and proofs-of-concept. It requires deep technical understanding of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, and API integrations, as well as strong leadership and client-facing skills. While the company's product is AI-driven, the role itself is customer-facing and pre-sales focused, not directly building AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solutions Engineers fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and customer-centric environment.
  2. Partner strategically with Hightouch AEs throughout the customer journey, delivering tailored demonstrations and customer POCs based on agreed-upon requirements.
  3. Develop deep technical domain expertise in Data Activation, CDP, data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), and integration platforms, across various industries including financial services, retail, SaaS, and similar enterprises.
  4. Be accountable for the exceptional customer experience during the new revenue pilot and closing phases.
  5. Engage with customers daily to deeply understand their data activation needs and architect elegant solutions that leverage the Hightouch platform to its fullest potential.

Skills

Required

  • Leading and mentoring technical teams
  • Pre-sales or post-sales client experience
  • Data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks)
  • ETL/ELT and API integrations
  • SQL, Python, JavaScript, or API development
  • Enterprise SaaS experience
  • Client-facing technical roles
  • Project management
  • Communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Startup experience
  • Technical go-to-market resource for data-centric products
  • Scaling Solutions Engineering teams

What the JD emphasized

  • customer needs and pain points
  • deep technical understanding
  • lead, mentor, and grow a team
  • technical teams
  • technical issues in the field with customers
  • technical credibility
  • technical capacity