Shopmonkey is looking for an innovative Solutions Engineer that will serve as a technical advocate throughout our customer’s journey. Your primary focus will be supporting our sales team and the SMB pre-sales process. You will play a crucial role in helping our customers realize the value of Shopmonkey's platform, features, and integrations. Please note this is a hybrid role, with in-office expectations 2 days/week in our Marin County, California WeWork office.
You'll have an opportunity to:
- Bring technical expertise to customer demos, implementations, and tickets
- Support and train MDRs, AEs, and other team members by aligning software features with real world scenarios
- Provide engaging demos that highlight the many solutions Shopmonkey offers
- Understand and qualify customer goals to help them get the most out of our platform during pre-sales engagements
- Create best practices around the pre-sales process
- Own the technical responses to questions and needs that will drive deals forward
- Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success and Product Management to align on goals and strategy to successfully scale and grow Shopmonkey's client base
- Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
- Build rapport and credibility with prospective customers as a trusted advisor
- Track and share customer requirements & feedback to product management teams
- Developing and maintaining product expertise, including best practices to provide value to customers by working closely with Product Management and Customer Success
- Engage in creative problem solving by blending Product Knowledge with 3rd party integrations
- 10% travel and work on site with automotive industry leads
We are looking for people who have:
- 3+ years experience as a Solutions Engineer, Systems Engineer, or Sales Engineer with experience leading projects and/or working with customers.
- Experience selling and working with pure SaaS solutions (experience selling/implementing infrastructure tools is a plus) and proven track record of success driving revenue through technical interactions with prospects.
- Understanding of sales processes in a high transaction sales environment
- Experience building and delivering demos for SaaS sales-cycles
- Experience working directly with SMB clients
- Able to work in a fast-paced team environment
- Excellent presentation, written & oral communication skills
- Automotive experience is a plus
- Bilingual with Spanish is a plus
In the United States the range is typically a salary of $100,000 to $115,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. The range provided is Shopmonkey’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount will be based on job-related and non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities. Consult with your Recruiter during the initial call to determine a more targeted range based on these job-related factors. In addition to this base compensation company stock options and benefits as outlined below are included.
Why Shopmonkey?
Shopmonkey has become an amazing environment where employees feel that they are valued as people, and not just worker bees. To ensure that our team thrives, we invest in the following perks (benefits below are mainly for U.S. based, full-time employees) Other benefits vary upon location outside the United States, and employment status):
💪🏼 Health & Wellness
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits available the 1st of the month following hire date
- Short term and long term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Reimbursement for a personal health and wellness membership
- Generous parental leave
- 401(k) available upon hire
✈️ Time Off
- 11 paid holidays
- Flexible time off - take the time off you need!
🥰 Giving Back
- Matching donations for approved charitable organizations
- Group volunteer efforts
🌟 Personal & Professional Development
- Weekly internal product & company training sessions
- Monthly events & education activities focused on DEIB, personal and/or professional development
- Individual career progression plans and leadership/management training
Check out our founder’s story, life page, or hear from real employees about what it’s like to work at Shopmonkey.
Join our team of hungry, humble, smart people who love what they do, and change the auto industry by helping every shop thrive.
About the Industry
The U.S. is the second largest passenger vehicle market with more than 260 million registered passenger vehicles, and the global car repair market is estimated to be worth more than $500B. Shopmonkey aims to change the status quo and enable auto shops to become more efficient and give their customers a more delightful experience.
About Shopmonkey
Shopmonkey is the leading auto-repair shop software company; it is a cloud-based solution that helps auto-repair shops consolidate tools, save time, and streamline their entire operation onto a simple, easy-to-use platform.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley and trusted by more than 3,500+ auto shops across the U.S. and Canada, Shopmonkey aims to change the status quo of the car repair market, estimated to be worth more than $500B.
In 2021 Shopmonkey raised a $75 million Series C, supported by top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Headline, I2BF, and ICONIQ Growth.
In 2022, Shopmonkey was named #4 on Forbes' annual ranking of America's Best Startup Employers list (and #1 in Business Products & Software Services).
Shopmonkey was once again named as one of America's Best Startup Employers by Forbes in 2023 and 2024.
Shopmonkey is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We are looking for team members from all backgrounds that are committed to the Shopmonkey mission.
Shopmonkey provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Shopmonkey is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our our commitment, Shopmonkey will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our Talent Team at hiring@shopmonkey.io.
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