Solutions Engineer, Upmarket (pre-sales) - Emea

Vanta Vanta · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Revenue

This role is a pre-sales Solutions Engineer for Vanta, a company focused on trust and security. The role involves being a technical advisor to customers, understanding their needs, and demonstrating how Vanta's solutions can meet them. While the company uses AI and encourages its use, the core function of this role is not AI/ML development but rather applying technical knowledge to sales and customer success within the enterprise AI domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a strategic sales partner, owning the technical relationship with prospects and customers.
  2. Partner with Account Executives to uncover technical, operational, and business pain points, validating use cases and aligning solutions to measurable customer impact and urgency.
  3. Validate technical feasibility, drive clarity on success criteria, and guide stakeholders toward a shared vision for the end-to-end solution (The Solution Win: Desirable, Viable, and Aligned).
  4. Deliver tailored, narrative-driven demonstrations that showcase how Vanta solves the customer's specific problem.
  5. Partner with the Account Executive to align the customer's success criteria with Vanta's unique strengths, proactively surface technical risks, and propose clear pathways to ensure focused deal progression and mutual success.

Skills

Required

  • customer-facing technical experience
  • B2B SaaS experience
  • technical proficiency
  • communication
  • storytelling
  • active listening
  • cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
  • Operating Systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
  • cloud application architecture
  • project management skills

Nice to have

  • scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash, and JavaScript)
  • REST API development
  • service integrations
  • cybersecurity space experience
  • experience using AI to amplify skills

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of customer-facing, technical experience as a solutions engineer, sales engineer or equivalent title, including previous B2B SaaS experience.
  • Must be able to work in our London or Dublin office 3 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).