Sales Engineer

Boam AI; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Top-tier compensation

Autonomy

Direct exposure to founders

Job summary

Boam AI is seeking a technically seasoned Sales Engineer in Cape Town to lead pilots, design integrations, and translate partner needs into concrete data and API requirements. You will collaborate with product and engineering to ensure pilots progress smoothly and deliver measurable value for marquee customers like Uber Eats and Toast.

You will diagnose data flows, own discovery, and coordinate across teams while maintaining clear stakeholder communications.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in a customer facing technical role.
• Experience with API integrations and data flows.
• Strong communicator with both technical and non technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, solution design, and integration planning.
• Partner with enterprise customers on pilots and early deployments.
• Translate messy partner data needs into concrete API and data feed requirements.
• Support implementation work across APIs, data feeds, and CRM connections.
• Coordinate with product, engineering, and data teams on requirements and scope.
• Translate customer needs into clear tickets, specs, and follow ups.
• Build and maintain demo environments, sample data sets, and playbooks.
• Help design and track pilot success metrics and reporting views.
• Collect structured feedback from users and stakeholders during pilots.
• Troubleshoot issues across data, configuration, and integrations.
• Provide input into roadmap based on real customer use and impact.

Skills

APIs

SQL

Data operations

Customer-facing

Job description

Lead pilots and integrations that turn top-tier partners into power users Boam AI builds managed data solutions that transform messy, unstructured signals from public, private, and proprietary sources into structured, reliable, and always up-to-date intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions across the enterprise. As a Sales Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and our top tier partners like Uber Eats and Toast. You will help scope and run pilots, support integrations and implementations, and make sure customer feedback turns into the right product and data improvements. This is a role for someone who is technical enough to dive into APIs and data, and commercial enough to sit with senior stakeholders and keep projects moving.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with enterprise customers on pilots and early deployments
• Lead technical discovery, solution design, and integration planning
• Translate messy partner data needs into concrete API and data feed requirements
• Support implementation work across APIs, data feeds, and CRM connections
• Coordinate with product, engineering, and data teams on requirements and scope
• Translate customer needs into clear tickets, specs, and follow ups
• Build and maintain demo environments, sample data sets, and playbooks
• Help design and track pilot success metrics and reporting views
• Collect structured feedback from users and stakeholders during pilots
• Troubleshoot issues across data, configuration, and integrations
• Provide input into roadmap based on real customer use and impact

You Might Be a Fit If...

• 3–6 years in a customer facing technical role
• Experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or similar role
• Worked with API integrations, data operations, and automation through scripting or SQL
• Comfortable debugging APIs, security, and data flows
• Strong communicator with both technical and non technical partners
• Able to run discovery, ask good questions, and map needs to solutions
• Experience with B2B SaaS, data products, or analytics platforms
• Enjoy working on pilots, proof of concepts, and first of kind projects
• Comfortable owning timelines and keeping multiple teams in sync
• Bias to ship, learn from usage, and refine quickly
• Motivated by solving real customer problems and seeing impact in the field

Why Boam AI

• Work directly with top tier partners like Uber Eats and Toast
• Join a no politics, high trust, low ego, high talent team
• Sit close to founders, product, and engineering on critical deals
• High autonomy, clear ownership, and visible impact from day one
• Operate at the intersection of AI, data, and enterprise workflows
• Top tier compensation with meaningful equity participation
• Help shape how we sell, implement, and expand our largest accounts

Our Hiring Process

Our process is fast, structured, and transparent. It is designed to respect your time and surface real mutual fit

• Intro Call
• Deep Dive
• Practical Exercise
• Founder Conversation

Align on values, ambition, and how we work together