About the Role
As a Staff Solutions Engineer at Sanity.io, you will own the full pre-sales journey for complex enterprise deals, working closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Engagement. You will architect and lead demos, guide customers through RFPs and proofs of concept, and represent strategic customer requirements to product and engineering teams. Beyond deal support, you will build tools, frameworks, and enablement materials for the SE team, mentor other Solutions Engineers, and help improve processes.
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead complex demos for enterprise prospects and strategic partners that win deals
- Own the technical narrative in any room, from C-suite boardrooms to deep-dive engineering sessions
- Educate customers on Sanity's platform at an advanced level, including capabilities, philosophy, and the strategic case for structured content at scale
- Guide customers through RFPs, architecture reviews, and proof of concepts with confidence
- Build and maintain showcase implementations, advanced enablement programs, and best practice guides for the team
- Share deep engineering expertise across complex verticals and advanced use cases, and troubleshoot issues
- Represent strategic customer requirements directly to product and engineering, influencing the roadmap
- Mentor the broader SE team and raise the bar for technical excellence across the organization
Requirements
- Previous experience in enterprise solution selling, including Fortune 500 accounts and cross-functional decision-makers up to C-level
- Strong coding skills in JavaScript, React, APIs, JSON, and Git
- Ability to design and demonstrate working technical solutions
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of explaining complex architectures to executives and business problems to engineers
- Proven discovery skills to lead a room, uncover pain points, and map solutions
- Familiarity with CMS and content operations
- Genuine curiosity about the role of AI in content operations
- A highly solution-oriented mindset: creative, structured, autonomous, and comfortable leading without a finished playbook
Skills
- JavaScript
- React
- APIs
- JSON
- Git
- Enterprise solution selling
- Technical architecture
- Communication
- Discovery
- CMS
- Content operations
- AI
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff
Benefits
- Comprehensive health plans and perks
- Healthy work-life balance
- Competitive salary and stock options program
About the Company
- Sanity.io is building the future of AI-powered Content Operations with an AI Content Operating System that allows teams to model, create, and automate content efficiently.
- Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew use Sanity.
- Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems, treating content as data for seamless adaptation across channels.
- Sanity recently raised an $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound, with backing from investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit, and founders of Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify, and Heroku.
- Sanity is a 200+ person company with committed and ambitious people who are pioneers, customer-focused, helpful, and enjoy 'type two fun'.
Equal Opportunity
- Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves.
- We believe that a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
