About the Role
The Solutions Engineering team at Metronome is a technical group that sits at the intersection of sales, account management, product, R&D, and operations. This role owns the technical side of the customer lifecycle from discovery calls through demos, POCs, technical scoping, and handover to post-sales groups. You will be trained to grow across these vectors.
Responsibilities
- Learn to tell a clear value story about how and where Metronome solves challenges and creates opportunities in a modern monetization stack.
- Assist in planning, building, and running customized demos of Metronome for various buyer personas.
- Become proficient in discovery to understand prospect challenges.
- Travel to meet prospects in the field for workshops, conferences, and on-sites.
- Land deals for exciting software companies, from startups to enterprise SaaS.
- Own knowledge areas, projects, tools, and market segments within the Solutions Engineering team.
- Run Proofs of Concept with clearly-defined success criteria.
- Represent the Solutions Engineering group as a deal team member.
- Handle detailed scoping to ensure customers are set up for success post-sales.
- Build relationships with people at prospect organizations, from operators to C-Suite executives.
- Design integrations of Metronome into prospect systems.
- Act as a pricing and packaging consultant, influencing the direction of future customers.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of experience in technical and/or customer-facing roles involving SaaS products (e.g., engineering, solutions, technical account management/consulting).
- Academic background in a technical area with high EQ.
- Relentless passion for being a hand-raiser; viewing big challenges and small tasks as opportunities.
- Growth mindset for learning quickly, adapting, and operating in fast-moving startup environments.
- Exceptional communication skills for conversing with technical, go-to-market, and finance stakeholders.
- Excitement for building and improving GTM playbooks and processes.
- Knowledge of the quote-to-cash space, including integrating with or interacting with tools like Salesforce, NetSuite, CPQs, etc. (preferred).
- Experience as a software engineer, product manager, or in other technical roles (preferred).
- Experience in a pure sales role, particularly selling to technical buyers or as a founding/early salesperson at a startup (preferred).
- Experience with logs, metrics, billing, finance, or other infrastructure or financial tooling and concepts (preferred).
Skills
- Technical communication
- Go-to-market strategy
- Financial stakeholder communication
- SaaS product knowledge
- Customer lifecycle management
- Demo creation and delivery
- Proof of Concept execution
- Technical scoping
- Integration design
- Pricing and packaging consultation
- Salesforce
- NetSuite
- CPQ
Location
- Worldwide
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 1-3 years
Education Level
- Technical academic background
About the Company
- Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet.
- Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies, now a Stripe product.
- Metronome's platform computes hundreds of millions of invoices per billing period and scales rapidly.
- The team includes founders with successful startup experience and Stripe employees with experience scaling teams through hypergrowth.
