Senior Solutions Engineer, Financial Audit
Fieldguide
Accounting & Finance
United States · San Francisco, CA, USA · Remote
USD 150k-175k / year + Equity
Location
San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA)
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Engineering, Product, and DesignEngineering
Compensation
- Base Salary $150K – $175K • Offers Equity
Fieldguide’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure holistic and competitive compensation that not only attracts and retains top talent but also fosters a culture of accountability and ownership in all the regions where we operate. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location tier to ensure pay aligns with local market conditions and ensures fairness, transparency, and the recognition of employees' contributions. Job compensation ranges may span multiple career levels. The actual base pay for the successful candidate will depend on several factors, including location tier, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training/certifications, business needs, and market demands. Salary ranges are subject to change and may be adjusted in the future.
About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.
As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.
About the Role:
The Fieldguide Senior Solutions Engineer is the primary solution lead with customers and prospects in all markets. Our customers are some of the nation’s top enterprise CPA firms and the product they select will be rapidly adopted by practitioners, and will have lasting impacts to their growing organization. Fieldguide’s business growth relies heavily on acquisition of new customers in all markets, and hence this is a highly visible pre-sales role.
As a Fieldguide platform expert, you will facilitate product demonstrations, convey our value proposition, and advise customers on industry best practices. The Senior Solutions Engineer partners closely with Account Executives on all enterprise level customers. This role crafts impactful customer engagements that drive a high volume of adoption in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do:
Effectively partner with Account Executives to understand prospects’ challenges and articulate Fieldguide’s value proposition, vision, and strategy to prospects
Build credibility with technical champion at the prospect company
Understand and help orchestrate all phases of the sales cycle, including leading technical validations during the Proof of Value phase
Increase sales velocity and contribute to closing deals
Participate and contribute to the enterprise sales process, product, or best practices initiatives
Manage organized discoveries to uncover customer needs and requirements that relate to decision criteria and key business issues
Present and demonstrate the product in a persuasive way based on key messages, decision criteria, and key business issues, ensuring the product is presented competitively
Successfully manage customer questions and objections and resolve concerns
Partner with Customer Success to enable complex onboarding of enterprise customers
Partner with Sales and Marketing on deal strategies, and with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to work through challenging technical problems
Engage with product management to provide insight into prospect and customer needs and industry trends, influencing the roadmap for market success
Ensure that the roadmap is clear to customers as required to influence buying decisions
Provide leadership by creating content and trainings for key areas
Work with the extended team to ensure that they are successful and learn from your expertise
Embody Fieldguide’s core leadership principles and cultural values
About You:
3+ years of hands on customer facing enterprise solutions engineering experience, with demonstrated success persuading and influencing SaaS deals
3+ years of experience in financial audit at a public accounting firm
Experience walking through product demonstrations with C-suite executives while maintaining poise and confidence
Intrinsically motivated to exceed goals, you don’t get intimidated, but rather get excited by ambitious goals
Undeniable executive presence with acute attention to what to say, and perhaps more importantly, how to say it. You have excellent speaking and presentation skills and a unique savviness for networking in complex business situations
Sales process and infrastructure experience, including excellent working knowledge of at least one leading CRM (Salesforce, Hubspot, etc)
You are a team player, and you are mission-first. You’re joining a hard-working team that trusts each other deeply. We won’t compromise on this
Preferred: Industry knowledge of assurance and advisory services, preferably with exposure to cybersecurity or regulatory standards
Compensation Range: $150K - $175K