Strategic Solutions Engineer

Postman; Toronto; Remote; CAD 204,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in API development as an Enterprise Sales Engineer in Toronto. You will help drive enterprise sales by nurturing prospects, conducting workshops, and providing solutions to meet customer needs. This role requires strong understanding of APIs, modern development methodologies, and the ability to engage with technical leaders. The position offers a competitive OTE package along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance

Fitness-related reimbursements

Meal stipend

Home office setup reimbursement

Training platform for continued learning

Qualifications

• 6+ years of enterprise sales / solutions engineering experience.
• Experience engaging with senior management and executive audiences.
• Strong understanding of modern development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Help drive enterprise sales and support Strategic customers.
• Conduct workshops and provide solutions to customer needs.
• Act as a technical intermediary between sales & other teams.

Skills

Sales strategies

Customer engagement

API understanding

DevOps knowledge

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

IDEs

Git

CI / CD tools

Monitoring services

Cloud computing services

Job description

Postman is the world’s leading collaboration platform for API development. The Postman API Platform’s features simplify each step of the API lifecycle so that individuals and enterprises can create better APIs—faster. More than 25 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today. Together, we are building the API-first world.

Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.

In addition to working with a product that customers already know & love, you will be well-supported in this role by our Sales, Customer Success, Developer Relations, & Engineering teams.

What You’ll Do :

• Help drive enterprise sales by nurturing prospects & supporting Strategic & Enterprise customers
• Conduct discovery, qualification, technical demos, & proof of value workshops with prospective customers looking to shift to an API-first development culture
• Handle Postman technical questions or objections & provide solutions or workarounds to address customer needs
• Understand deeply our customers workflows today & how they can adopt API-first development best practices
• Share customer feedback with appropriate teams & provide general customer advocacy
• Remain up-to-date with the competitive landscape, current trends, & challenges in the API market
• Create proof of concept integrations, tooling, & workflows as needed to support prospective customers
• Maintain & develop customer sandbox environments & best practices of working with the product
• Act as a technical intermediary between sales & other teams to best fit our customers needs

About You :

• 6+ years of enterprise sales / solutions engineering experience
• 2+ years of software development experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or relevant work experience
• Customer facing experience & comfortable engaging all levels of technologists including individual developers, QA, product, & engineering leaders
• Experience engaging senior management & executive audiences to convey Postman's value proposition
• Capable of forging deep, long-lasting relationships with Enterprise / Strategic customers
• Strong understanding of APIs, & experience with producing & consuming with APIs across different domains
• Strong understanding of modern development methodologies & DevOps with an appreciation of the software development life cycle
• Comfortable with the enterprise SaaS sales process & common security concerns of cloud services
• Experience executing enterprise sales strategies & sales methodologies like MEDDIC, Challenger Sale, Command of the Message, etc.
• Excellent listener that seeks to understand what a customer is trying to achieve rather than pre-supposing solutions
• Familiar with typical developer tooling : IDEs, Git, CI / CD, monitoring services, microservices, containers, cloud computing services, etc.
• Fast learner, excited & willing to learn new technology on an ongoing basis

What Else?

This is a remote role based in Toronto and the reasonably estimated OTE range for this role is 204,000 - 276,000 CAD & a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, & experience.

Postman has an informal and fun working team environment. We believe in a hybrid workplace, there will be opportunities for you to meet and collaborate with teammates from around the globe. We offer a competitive salary and equity package, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, and cool perks. Our employees enjoy unlimited PTO because we believe everyone should take the time off needed to refresh, relax, and reflect. Our wellness program offers fitness-related reimbursements, a meal stipend, home office set-up reimbursement, internet reimbursement, book reimbursements for professional development, and a training platform for continued learning and education for personal growth. Also, our donation-matching program can support causes you care about. We’re creating a long-term company, and we want you to be part of it. Join us and become a Postmanaut.

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

And we want you to be part of it all.

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes / CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.

Postman will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records where directed under applicable law, such as pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

PS : Here's a timeline of Postman’s journey in becoming an API Platform.