Founded by CEO Gustavo Sapoznik in 2014, ASAPP solves challenges in machine learning and natural language processing. The company builds AI-native products with the goal to achieve
Director of Solutions Engineering
Location
New York
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
$220K - $230K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director of Solutions Engineering
ASAPP
• Support Strategic Deals Directly. Lead discovery, demos, architecture deep-dives, and POCs for our largest prospects. • Build the team. Hire, develop, and retain a bar-raising SE team. Set the standard for technical storytelling, discovery rigor, and demo craft. • Own the technical win. Partner with Sales Leadership on deal strategy. Translate CXP’s capabilities into outcomes that resonate with customer executives. • Engineer repeatability. Design demos, reference architectures, and POC frameworks that scale without diluting quality. • Close the loop with Product. Convert competitive signals, gaps, and breakthrough wedges into clear input that shapes the roadmap. • De-risk the handoff. Set Implementation up to deliver in weeks, not quarters. • Run the function. Own SE metrics, forecasting inputs and capacity planning.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years in Solution / Sales Engineering, with 5+ leading SE teams.
- A track record of winning large enterprise deals in CX, contact center, AI/ML, or enterprise SaaS.
- Genuine technical depth: you can whiteboard a Genesys, Amazon Connect or Salesforce integration and answer LLM evaluation, security, and data-residency questions without phoning a friend.
- Executive presence with CIOs, CTOs, Heads of CX, plus the willingness to be hands-on in a demo.
- Builder’s instincts: you’ve designed the playbooks and stood up the process, not just inherited them.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with stock options
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance
- 401k matching
- Fitness and wellness stipend
- Mobile phone reimbursement
- Mental well-being benefits
- Professional learning and development stipend
- Parental leave, including adoptive and foster parents
- 3 weeks paid time off (increases with tenure) along with sick leave
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