Solutions Engineer, Retail

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

Solutions Engineer for Retail customers, focusing on ensuring they achieve business value from OpenAI's models through technical expertise, strategic guidance, and architectural recommendations. This role involves pre-sales activities, customer relationship management, 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 Retail 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 architectural 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
  • Retail customer sales experience
  • C-level relationship management
  • IT security principles
  • B2B SaaS product knowledge
  • Generative AI/ML solution prototyping
  • Network/cloud architecture knowledge
  • Presentation and communication skills
  • Problem ownership
  • Programming languages (Python or Javascript)

Nice to have

  • Humble attitude
  • Eagerness to help colleagues
  • Desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of experience in a technical pre-sales or similar role
  • 3+ years selling to Retail customers
  • managing C-level technical and business relationships with complex global organizations
  • thorough understanding of IT security principles
  • customer requirements for technical B2B SaaS products
  • experience providing higher-level security and compliance support
  • delivered prototypes of Generative AI/traditional ML solutions