Senior Solution Engineer

Posted:
10/1/2024, 4:09:13 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$163/hr or $339,040 total comp

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3,200 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. 

As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

This role will support the numerous existing customers we already have as well as help us rapidly build the market.  As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will help guide our enterprise prospects and customers in leveraging Amplitude’s platform to create better, stickier, more interesting digital products.  Through the application of our powerful behavioral analytics tool, robust A/B testing system and easy-to-use CDP you will inspire prospects to see a better future that leverages our unified platform.  You’ll have the opportunity to meet with product leaders, data leaders, marketing leaders and more! You will help drive business and technical discoveries and lead winning proof steps to creatively position Amplitude’s value in the context of their business. In short, you’ll be the face of Amplitude to some of the world’s most interesting and innovative businesses.

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, your input and opinions are deeply valued.  You’ll have the opportunity to influence product direction, collaborate with corporate and field marketing, and have a huge impact on our business.

 As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will: 

  • Design and deliver world-class, storytelling-based demos, run pointed discovery sessions and own proofs of value of Amplitude’s solution.
  • Couple your product, data and analytics expertise to align Amplitude’s solution with enterprise customer pains.
  • Lead conversations with technical teams on topics such as data import, data quality, data governance and reference architecture
  • Work closely in your day to day with account executives, product development, engineering and customer success to ensure a seamless buying experience for our prospects
  • Advise prospects on their data strategy and growth stack architecture to ensure efficient and high-quality results
  • Provide guidance on preferred integration methods to technical stakeholders
  • Advise prospects on the kinds of data they should be collecting to produce their desired results
  • Scope and lead hands-on evaluations with prospects to inspire them and make them enthusiastic about using the platform. 
  • Be an in-house expert in Amplitude’s product and stay up-to-date on product releases and new features, assist in training new SC team hires and hand off well-structured, use-case-based deals to our post sales teams
  • Enhance the Amplitude product roadmap forward by sharing product feedback and new requirements from the field back to our product management team
  • Travel to customer on-sites to deliver demos and to build strong customer relationships. 

You'll be a great addition to the team if: 

  • You have 5+ years of enterprise software experience including at least 3 years of pre-sales or solution engineering experience
  • Ability to travel up to 40%
  • You have a clear understanding of the modern growth stack including data, messaging, A/B testing and, of course, analytics.
  • You have technical experience in tools using SDKs and APIs
  • You have an appetite for learning about the world of product development, digital marketing, behavioral analytics and data science
  • You get energized when you give a demo that dazzles and inspires your prospect (and buries your competition)
  • You love sharing your winning strategies with the broader sales and solutions consulting community
  • You like to build strategies on how to address new markets and verticals
  • You get charged up by the idea of working with a high-performing, highly-collaborative, highly-communicative coworkers
  • Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

  • Excellent ​Medical, ​Dental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ and ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
  • Flexible time off, ​paid holidays, and more
  • Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), learning and development (annual), commuter transit/parking (monthly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
  • Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support 
  • Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

The Product: Amplitude is the world's #1 product intelligence platform– we empower teams to use customer data to build great product experiences for growth.  We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to build on: a platform that enables companies to thrive. 

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

  • G2: #1 product analytics solution and #3 best software product according to the 2022 G2 Best Software report.
  • Business Insider: A top tech company to bet your career on.
  • Fast Company: #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
  • Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker AMPL. 
  • Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
  • We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and employees around the world.
  • Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude’s D&I Commitment: Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

 

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $165,000 - $248,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $183,000 - $275,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $183,000 - $275,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $165,000 - $248,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $165,000 - $248,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.

 

 

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Amplitude

Website: http://amplitude.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 501-1000

Year Founded: 2012

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Secondary Market

Industries: Analytics ⋅ Big Data ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Product Management ⋅ SaaS ⋅ Scheduling ⋅ Software