Solutions Engineer (upmarket, Pre-sales) - Emea [french Fluency]

Vanta · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Revenue

This role is a pre-sales Solutions Engineer for Vanta, a company focused on security and compliance. The role involves being a technical advisor to customers, understanding their needs, and demonstrating how Vanta's product can solve their problems. While the company uses AI and encourages its use, the core function of this role is not building or directly deploying AI models, but rather selling a product that may leverage AI. The role requires strong communication, technical sales skills, and customer-facing experience, with a focus on ensuring technical fit and driving sales.

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
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
  • Operating Systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
  • Cloud application architecture
  • Scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash, and JavaScript)
  • French Language proficiency

Nice to have

  • REST API development
  • Service integrations
  • Cybersecurity space experience

What the JD emphasized

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