Job Description
About Us:
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We’re backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other’s growth.
As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.
About the Role:
The Senior Solutions Engineer at Fieldguideis the primary solution lead with prospects and customers in the Internal Audit, SOX, and Compliance corporate market. Our customers are some of the largest companies in the world across all industries, including manufacturing, energy, technology, financial services, healthcare, and public sector. The solutions these organizations select will be rapidly adopted by practitioners and will have lasting impacts to their team by significantly increasing efficiencies across the full Audit Engagement (or testing) lifecycle. Fieldguide’s business growth relies heavily on acquisition of new customers in the Corporate market, and hence this is a highly visible pre-sales role.
As a Fieldguide platform expert, you will facilitate product demonstrations, convey our value proposition, and advise customers on industry best practices. The Senior Solutions Engineer partners closely with Account Executives on all Corporate Internal Audit, SOX, or compliance customers/prospects. This role crafts impactful customer engagements that drive a high volume of adoption in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do:
Partner with Account Executives to understand prospects’ challenges and articulate Fieldguide’s value proposition, vision, and strategy to prospects
Build credibility with the technical champion at the prospect company
Understand and help orchestrate all phases of the sales cycle, including leading technical validations during the Proof of Value phase
Increase sales velocity and contribute to closing deals
Contribute to the sales process, product, or best practices initiatives
Manage organized discoveries to uncover customer needs and requirements that relate to decision criteria and key business issues
Present and demonstrate the product in a persuasive way based on key messages, decision criteria, and key business issues, ensuring the product is presented competitively
Successfully manage customer questions and objections
Partner with Customer Success to enable complex onboarding of customers
Partner with Sales and Marketing on deal strategies, and with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to work through challenging technical problems
Engage with product management to provide insight into prospect and customer needs and industry trends, influencing the roadmap for market success
Ensure that the roadmap is clear to customers as required to influence buying decisions
Provide leadership by creating content and trainings for key areas
Work with the extended team to ensure that they are successful and learn from your expertise
Embody Fieldguide’s core leadership principles and cultural values
Who You Are:
3+ years of hands-on Corporate Internal Audit, SOX, or Compliance customer facing solutions engineering experience
Experience walking through product demonstrations with C-suite executives
Intrinsically motivated to exceed goals, you don’t get intimidated, but rather get excited by ambitious goals
Executive presence with acute attention to what to say, and perhaps more importantly, how to say it.
Excellent speaking and presentation skills with a unique savviness for networking in complex business situations
Sales process and infrastructure experience, including knowledge of at least one leading CRM (Salesforce, Hubspot, etc)
Team player and mission-first.
