Platform Solutions Consultant

Rippling; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Platform Solutions Consultant to bridge technical and business needs for prospective customers. You will demonstrate the Rippling platform, build POCs, and communicate value across sales, product, and engineering teams.

Ideal candidates have pre-sales experience with a modular no-code platform, can write and test API calls, and speak clearly about complex technical concepts. Occasional travel is required, and you’ll join a high-impact, fast-paced team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a pre-sales role with hands-on building for POCs and demos.
• Experience with APIs and SQL is required.
• Exceptional communication, presentation and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales to ensure success during prospect evaluation.
• Serve as overlay expert on Rippling platform capabilities.
• Interpret prospect technical requirements and articulate business value.
• Lead technical demos and POCs addressing business objectives.
• Create, present and maintain technical content for customer success.
• Provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams.
• Become a Rippling platform product expert and understand competitors.
• Collaborate with SC leadership to build a best-in-class discipline.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

APIs & SQL familiarity

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Postman

Job description

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.

About the role

The new Platform Solutions Consultant role will help both internal and external stakeholders find value in the more technically complex aspects of the Rippling Platform, including building custom applications with our no-code tools, writing complex query logic in Rippling Query Language, and designing solutions using native workflows, existing integrations, and APIs.

Our Solutions Consultants focus on revenue generation, value-driven presentations, and enabling our prospective customers to realize the value of Rippling. Experience working in a pre-sales capacity, working with a configurable low-code development platform is required. This role does not involve writing production code, but applicants should be able to understand, write, and test API calls as well as basic SQL.

You will join a diverse and exceptional team of Solutions Consulting professionals. Rippling SCs drive value for customers and enable a best-in-industry buying experience. Rippling is a place where you will do the best work for your life and have a direct hand in driving sales, product, and GTM strategy - working with a wide range of stakeholders and strategic customers.

What you will do

• Partner with the Sales team to ensure the success of prospects during their evaluation of Rippling
• Partner with other Solutions Consultant as an overlay expert on Rippling’s most advanced platform capabilities
• Understand a prospect’s technical requirements and convey the business value of Rippling’s Platform
• Manage and assist in technical demonstrations and POCs for prospects that address their unique business objectives
• Create, present, and maintain technical content such that customers are successful using the Rippling Platform
• Provide customer feedback to the Product and Engineering teams
• Become a product expert across the entire Rippling platform and understand the competitor landscape
• Work with your SC peers and SC leadership to build a best-in-class SC organization

What you will need

• 4+ years of experience in a pre-sales role with experience in a modular platform, doing hands on building for POCs and demonstrations and working with APIs using Postman or similar.
• Undergraduate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field and/or equivalent work experience
• Exceptional communication, presentation and organizational skillsSelf-starter with a bias towards action, energized by a fast-paced environment and excited to build
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [e-mail]