Lead AI Solution Engineer for Private Equity & Startups

Tech Sales Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 158,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Solutions Engineer for the PE & Startups practice. You will advise on agentic AI adoption, lead executive conversations, and craft tailored demos showing AI agents in action across deal sourcing, portfolio operations, and revenue growth.

Join a high-visibility team supporting PE-backed and high-growth accounts, collaborating with specialists to scale AI-driven value across portfolios.

Qualifications

• A strong track record in technical pre-sales, solution engineering, or solution consulting for enterprise software, ideally with executive-facing engagements.
• Business acumen and financial fluency: you understand how PE firms create value, startups scale, and how tech decisions affect EBITDA, growth, and valuation.
• Hands-on curiosity about generative and agentic AI, and the ability to explain clearly where AI agents create value and where they don’t.

Responsibilities

• Advise on agentic transformation. Serve as the primary technical and strategic advisor to PE firms, their portfolio companies, and high-growth startups.
• Lead executive conversations with Managing Directors, Operating Partners, founders, CFOs, and CIOs, linking AI and data strategy to investment theses and growth goals.
• Show the future, not slides. Design and deliver tailored demos, prototypes, and proofs of concept that illustrate AI agents working with people.
• Drive portfolio-wide value creation by articulating how Salesforce accelerates revenue growth and efficiency across portfolios.
• Partner with startups built for scale to develop a platform that grows with them from early go-to-market to enterprise operations.
• Orchestrate with Salesforce teams on account strategy and bring in specialists where they add value.
• Stay ahead of the curve by building expertise in Agentforce, Data 360, Sales Cloud, and AI governance.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

Solution engineering

Executive-facing engagements

Financial fluency

AI curiosity

Storytelling & demos

Salesforce experience

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Solutions Engineer for the PE & Startups practice. You will advise on agentic AI adoption, lead executive conversations, and craft tailored demos showing AI agents in action across deal sourcing, portfolio operations, and revenue growth.

Join a high-visibility team supporting PE-backed and high-growth accounts, collaborating with specialists to scale AI-driven value across portfolios.