Solutions Engineer, Pre-sales

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Go To Market

This role focuses on pre-sales technical support for OpenAI's products like ChatGPT and the API, helping customers understand and implement solutions to achieve business value. It involves demonstrating product capabilities, recommending architectures, and building customer relationships.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver an exceptional pre-sales customer experience for prospects and customers by providing technical expertise, outlining the value proposition, and answering product, API, and LLM-related questions.
  2. Demonstrate how leveraging OpenAI APIs and ChatGPT can meet customers’ business needs and deliver substantial business value. This includes building and presenting demos, scoping use cases, recommending architecture patterns, and providing in-depth technical advisory.
  3. Create and maintain documentation, guides, and FAQs related to common questions and requirements discovered during the pre-sales process.
  4. Develop and nurture strong customer relationships during the evaluation, validation, and purchasing process.
  5. Foster customer advocacy and represent the voice of the customer with internal teams by gathering and relaying customer feedback, identifying themes across customers, and incorporating them into product planning.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience in a technical pre-sales or similar role
  • managing C-level technical and business relationships with complex global organizations
  • thorough understanding of IT security principles and customer requirements for technical B2B SaaS products
  • experience providing higher-level security and compliance support
  • foundational training in programming languages like Python or Javascript
  • delivered prototypes of Generative AI/traditional ML solutions
  • knowledge of network/cloud architecture
  • effective presenter and communicator
  • translate business and technical topics to all audiences, including senior leaders
  • Own problems end-to-end
  • willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done

Nice to have

  • humble attitude
  • eagerness to help your colleagues
  • desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed

What the JD emphasized

  • technical pre-sales
  • C-level technical and business relationships
  • complex global organizations
  • IT security principles
  • customer requirements for technical B2B SaaS products
  • security and compliance support
  • Generative AI/traditional ML solutions
  • network/cloud architecture