Senior Solutions Consultant, Higher Education Fundraising

Fundraise Up, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

FSA/HSA

Vacation & holidays

401(k) match

Disability & life insurance

Parental leave

Home office stipend

Professional development stipend

Charitable giving & volunteer time off

Job summary

Fundraise Up in the United States is seeking a Senior Solutions Consultant to lead the technical narrative in the sales cycle. You will map nonprofit needs to our platform, design tailored demos, and partner with Sales, Product, Customer Success, and Solution Architecture to speed deals and reduce technical risk.

Expect to own API/data integration planning, handle RFP input with compliance focus, and enable the sales team with current product knowledge.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a presales, sales engineering, or technical consulting role within SaaS, fintech, or nonprofit technology.
• Experience in Higher Education space, preferably fundraising.
• Hands-on with APIs, webhooks, data integration, data mapping, and technical scoping.
• Proven experience with enterprise customers carrying large ARR.
• Translating customer requirements into compelling technical solutions and communicating their value.
• Experience with CRM, payment, and marketing automation integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe, PayPal, Zapier).
• Knowledge of GDPR and PCI DSS data security standards.
• Strong presentation, communication, and storytelling skills across technical and executive audiences.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical narrative of the sales cycle from first call to signed contract.
• Run discovery sessions to surface real technical requirements and integration needs.
• Design and deliver tailored product demonstrations and solution proposals.
• Turn technical questions into clear answers for engineering and executives.
• Build solution architectures, data mapping, and integration plans with partner ecosystem.
• Lead technical input on RFP/RFI responses with compliance in mind.
• Provide market feedback to Solution Architecture and Product teams.
• Train and enable the Sales team with current product knowledge.

Skills

Presales

Sales engineering

Technical consulting

HigherEd fundraising

APIs & data mapping

CRM integrations

Salesforce

HubSpot

Stripe

PayPal

Zapier

GDPR/PCI DSS

Strong presentation

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

CRM tools

Job description

Fundraise Up in the United States is seeking a Senior Solutions Consultant to lead the technical narrative in the sales cycle. You will map nonprofit needs to our platform, design tailored demos, and partner with Sales, Product, Customer Success, and Solution Architecture to speed deals and reduce technical risk.

Expect to own API/data integration planning, handle RFP input with compliance focus, and enable the sales team with current product knowledge.