Solutions Engineer, Private Equity

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

Solutions Engineer role focused on Private Equity customers, partnering with them to understand needs, guide AI strategy, identify use cases, and demonstrate business value from OpenAI's products. This involves technical advisory, architectural recommendations, and acting as a liaison between customers and internal teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver an exceptional pre-sales customer experience for large Private Equity prospects and customers by providing technical expertise, outlining the value proposition, and answering product, API, and LLM-related questions.
  2. Demonstrate how leveraging OpenAI’s suite of products 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

  • Technical pre-sales experience
  • Private Equity customer experience
  • Understanding of IT security principles
  • Programming languages (Python/Javascript)
  • Generative AI/ML solution prototyping
  • Network/cloud architecture knowledge
  • Presentation and communication skills
  • Problem ownership

Nice to have

  • LLM-related questions
  • API knowledge
  • Customer relationship management
  • Customer feedback gathering
  • Security and compliance support

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of experience in a technical pre-sales or similar role
  • 3+ years working with Private Equity partners
  • thorough understanding of IT security principles
  • foundational training in programming languages like Python or Javascript
  • delivered prototypes of Generative AI/traditional ML solutions