Channel Solutions Engineer: Partner Enablement Leader

PlayerZero; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PlayerZero is seeking a Channel Solutions Engineer in the San Francisco area to own technical relationships with two to three global channel partners. You will lead discovery, demonstrations, and proofs of concept, then coach partner engineers to lead engagements.

You’ll build certification programs, reference architectures, and delivery playbooks to scale success across clients. You will collaborate with partner solutions engineering, delivery, and practice leaders, teaching discovery and

Qualifications

• Experience as a sales engineer, solutions architect, or channel partner solutions architect, ideally in developer tools, DevOps, observability, security, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong technical fundamentals across cloud, application architecture, data flow, CI/CD, APIs, and security, with the ability to assess client environments and engage credibly with senior engineers.
• Experience working inside or alongside a global consultancy, systems integrator, or business process outsourcing firm, with an understanding of how services businesses sell, staff, and deliver engagements.
• A track record of developing other technical professionals through coaching, practice development, or technical enablement programs.
• The ability to deliver live technical demonstrations, troubleshoot in the moment, and teach others to do the same.
• The ability to connect technical capabilities to client outcomes and channel partner business value, and work effectively with delivery and practice leadership.
• Strong organization and follow-through across globally distributed teams and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own channel partner technical relationships. Work with channel partner solutions engineering, delivery, and practice leaders to establish priorities and build their teams’ ability to sell and deliver PlayerZero.
• Enable channel partner engineers. Teach technical discovery, live demonstrations using client code, proof-of-concept design, and objection handling. Help channel partners assess client environments and incorporate PlayerZero into their solutions and delivery models.
• Build and own channel partner certification. Define practical standards for presales and delivery roles, develop assessments, and certify engineers’ readiness to lead customer engagements independently.
• Create reusable technical resources. Build reference architectures, demo environments, playbooks, and delivery patterns that channel partners can apply across clients.
• Support joint pursuits and delivery. Lead technical work on early engagements, progressively transition ownership to channel partner teams, and review solution designs and delivery plans.
• Resolve escalations and strengthen channel partner capability. Address complex technical questions and turn lessons from engagements into guidance channel partners can use independently.
• Drive channel partner outcomes. Work with channel partnerships on joint account plans, pursuit priorities, and programs that recognize channel partner engineers’ contributions. Track technical readiness, certifications, channel partner-led wins, and go-lives.
• Bring channel partner insight into PlayerZero. Share channel partner and client feedback with Product, Field Engineering, and Marketing to improve the platform and supporting resources.

Skills

Sales engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Cloud fundamentals

Security

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

CI/CD tooling

APIs

Security tooling

Job description

PlayerZero is seeking a Channel Solutions Engineer in the San Francisco area to own technical relationships with two to three global channel partners. You will lead discovery, demonstrations, and proofs of concept, then coach partner engineers to lead engagements.

You’ll build certification programs, reference architectures, and delivery playbooks to scale success across clients. You will collaborate with partner solutions engineering, delivery, and practice leaders, teaching discovery and