Manager, Solutions Engineering

Mixpanel Mixpanel · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Solutions Engineering

Manager for a Solutions Engineering team at Mixpanel, focusing on leading analytics consultants to drive customer value and technical wins. This role involves coaching, refining technical sales processes, cross-functional collaboration, and hiring. The team serves as primary technical resources for the Sales organization, ensuring customers achieve business outcomes with Mixpanel's AI-first digital analytics platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing and inclusive team of Solutions Engineers, actively investing in their career development and upholding a high standard of performance.
  2. Partner closely with Sales leadership and Account Executives to provide technical expertise that drives new, retained, and expansion ARR. You will ensure your team's activities are directly contributing to the company's bottom line.
  3. Guide your team through complex customer evaluations and technical challenges. You will manage team resources effectively, aligning the right skills to customer needs to achieve productivity targets and successful outcomes.
  4. Act as a key technical liaison, collaborating with peer managers across Sales, Product, and Engineering. You will gather and synthesize customer feedback from your team to influence product strategy and solve problems at scale.
  5. Effectively translate broader company and departmental strategy into clear, actionable goals for your team. You will guide your direct reports through evolving business priorities with empathy and clarity.

Skills

Required

  • progressive experience in a B2B SaaS environment
  • 3+ years of people management experience leading a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or professional services team
  • player-coach mentality
  • deep knowledge in the data and analytics space
  • expert on how data products (like CDPs, data warehouses, and analytics tools) are implemented and adopted by customers
  • proven cross-functional partner with a track record of successfully working with sales teams to navigate complex deals and drive revenue
  • expertise in communicating complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • skilled at prioritizing team activities and managing workload in a dynamic environment, balancing customer needs with efficiency goals
  • natural mentor and developer of talent, with a passion for coaching and a history of building inclusive, high-achieving teams
  • handles ambiguity with ease, demonstrating flexibility and a proactive, problem-solving mindset when adapting to new challenges and business priorities

Nice to have

  • Previous experience in management consulting, strategic operations, or a similar role focused on go-to-market strategy
  • Direct, hands-on experience with Mixpanel or other product analytics tools like Amplitude, Pendo, or Contentsquare
  • Strong familiarity with the modern data stack, including tools like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Segment, or Hightouch