
Plain · San Francisco
I'm Phil, Head of Sales at Plain, and the hiring manager for this role. You'd be joining as a partner to the sales team while working closely with our Engineeri...
I'm Phil, Head of Sales at Plain, and the hiring manager for this role. You'd be joining as a partner to the sales team while
working closely with our Engineering team to become the technical driver of our most important deals.
Plain is redefining customer support for the next generation of B2B companies. We're building the fastest, most powerful platform
to help companies move beyond reactive support and build true customer relationships.
Some of the world's most forward-thinking companies, like Cursor, Ashby, and Sanity, trust Plain to unify all customer
interactions, enable faster team collaboration, and supercharge their workflows with AI.
We're a small, tight-knit crew with offices in SF and London. This role is hybrid – 3 days a week in our SF office. We tend to
start our days earlier (think 7:30/8 AM PT) so we get real-time overlap with our colleagues in Europe.
We are at a genuinely interesting inflection point. Companies are rethinking what support infrastructure should look like in an
AI-native world, and we're building the answer. Our customers are some of the most technically sophisticated teams out there, and
that makes the work interesting.
You'll have real ownership, a short path to product and engineering, and the chance to build this function from the ground up.
Plain is leading the charge in building this new world, as our Solutions Engineer, you'll own the technical side of every
strategic deal. You'll sit alongside our Account Executives and CSM’s to help pre and post sale demonstrate the value of Plain
through the entire customer lifecycle, from discovery call to customer deployment. You will have a critical role guiding technical
evaluations, and leading POCs that prove Plain can do exactly what we say it can.
You'll also be a direct line between prospects and our product team. The patterns you spot in evaluations, the questions that keep
coming up, the features that close or lose deals, etc. All of these signals will shape what we build next.
team will partner with Account Executives and CSMs and be the bridge between pre-sale and post-sale onboarding. Be the primary
technical contact from discovery onwards, throughout the sales cycle. You will be co-selling with the sales team to help push
deals through an effective evaluation.
strong evaluation of how they will use Plain to solve their problems. Manage everything from, troubleshooting blockers and
connections, in order to make sure their team walks away confident Plain is the right call.
make it work in unique environments. You'll be guiding customers through complex use cases and you need to have been there
yourself.
need to know. You're the voice of the technical buyer.
developer audience or complex technical product.
journey.
customize Plain to their own workflows.
feedback before sharing with engineering.
build them yourself.
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TLDR; As our founding Post-Sales Solutions Engineer at Dust, you will act as the technical partner for our existing customers, ensuring they maximize value from our AI operating system throughout their journey with us. Your primary focus will be driving long-term customer success through high-value use cases, deep adoption, and expansion opportunities that make Dust indispensable to customer workflows. You will work closely with our Customer Success and Product & Engineering teams to deepen customer relationships and drive retention. 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Aptitude, Attitude and Agency. APTITUDE * 4+ years in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Implementation Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Engineering * Strong technical aptitude with the ability to work directly with both engineers and business stakeholders * Familiarity with APIs, web development, integrations, and lightweight scripting or tooling * AI fluency beyond prompting; experience building workflows, automations, or agent-based systems using modern AI tools is highly desirable * Strong discovery and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate ambiguous customer pain points into technical solutions * Excellent communication skills across workshops, training, implementation, and stakeholder management * Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple parallel customer initiatives simultaneously ATTITUDE * Deeply curious and motivated to become an expert in both Dust’s product and the evolving AI landscape * Customer-obsessed with a genuine desire to solve meaningful problems and create long-term value * Highly proactive and resourceful; you don’t wait to be told what needs improvement * Thrives in ambiguity and fast-moving environments where processes and playbooks are still being defined * Collaborative and low ego; you work effectively across Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and GTM teams * High standards and strong execution without needing heavy structure or oversight * Excited by the opportunity to help define a new category and shape how companies operate with AI AGENCY * Operate with strong ownership and drive customer outcomes end-to-end without needing to be micromanaged * Proactively identify opportunities for account expansion, deeper adoption, and new AI use cases * Push projects forward independently while knowing when to involve cross-functional partners * Identify recurring patterns across customer work and turn them into scalable solutions, documentation, or product opportunities * Advocate for customers with urgency and influence product direction when needed * Continuously improve how you work and support customers to increase leverage and impact COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS * Competitive compensation: $220,000-280,000 OTE * Support for relocation (up to $10k) * Significant equity package in a Sequoia-backed startup * Health insurance for you and your dependents * New MacBook Pro or Linux machine, monitor, keyboard, etc. * Beautiful office in the heart of San Francisco * Opportunity to travel to Paris multiple times a year * Regular team events and offsite LOCATION We're prioritizing building our team with an in-person culture at our offices in Paris, San Francisco, and New York because we value the magic that happens when talented people work closely together. We have an office-first culture. Some of the best things about building at Dust are the energy, the fast decisions, and the unexpected conversations that unlock a hard problem, which happen because we are in the same room. Being together is not a formality, it is how we do our best work, and it is something we actively protect. That said, we hire people with strong judgement and we extend that trust to how they manage their time. When working from home makes more sense for what you need to get done that day, we trust you to make that call. WHY DUST The models are powerful enough. What's missing is the product layer where AI meets how companies actually work. That's what we're building: the infrastructure that lets any team turn scattered knowledge and tools into coordinated execution with agents they build, own, and run themselves. We use Dust ourselves every day. We get to shape how humans and agents collaborate while solving our own problems with the product we ship. That loop is rare, and it's why we move fast. If you're excited about defining a new category and want to join a determined team of optimists who focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously, we'd love to talk. Even if you don't check every box in our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and we're more interested in your potential and passion than a perfect match to our checklist. Learn how we think and work. * Our product constitution, a story about our mission * Agents at work - Latent Space, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024 * LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024
ABOUT THE ROLE Technical engineer who works directly with enterprise customers to deploy and customize Jinba's workflow automation platform. You'll be the bridge between our product team and major enterprise clients, turning their business needs into working solutions. RESPONSIBILITIES * Deploy and configure Jinba for enterprise customers, ensuring successful adoption * Work with customers to understand their existing tech stack, workflows, and requirements * Build integrations connecting Jinba to customer systems (internal databases, legacy applications, enterprise software) * Translate customer feedback into product requirements for the engineering team * Debug and resolve production issues in customer deployments * Develop best practices, documentation, and reusable integration patterns from field experience * Own customer technical relationships from pilot through expansion REQUIREMENTS EXPERIENCE * 3+ years in customer-facing technical roles (solutions engineering, implementation, consulting, or similar) * TypeScript proficiency; comfortable reading and modifying both frontend and backend code ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION * Deep understanding of enterprise tech stacks (ERP systems, databases, identity providers, internal APIs) * Experience integrating with legacy systems and navigating complex IT environments * Familiarity with enterprise security and compliance requirements (SOC 2, on-prem deployments, VPNs, SSO) CUSTOMER SKILLS * Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders * Ability to work with IT teams, business users, and executives across different functions * Experience in regulated industries (finance, insurance, manufacturing a plus) TECHNICAL UNDERSTANDING * Familiarity with AI/LLM products and how they behave in production * Understanding of integration patterns (APIs, webhooks, data pipelines, ETL) STRONG SIGNALS * Engineering or technical roles at major consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) * Forward Deployment Engineer or similar customer-facing technical roles at Palantir, Accenture, or Deloitte * Implementation, solutions, or technical consulting experience at enterprise software companies (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday) * Prior experience deploying AI/automation products to large organizations MINDSET * Customer obsessed: you find satisfaction in solving real problems for real users * Willing to travel: 10-20% to customer sites * Entrepreneurial: you'll shape how we do deployments as the first dedicated FDE ABOUT JINBA We help large enterprises build automated workflows using plain English. Unlike traditional no-code tools that bolt a chat agent onto their interface, Jinba is built as a native vibe coding platform from the ground up. YC W26. International team across SF and Tokyo. Growing fast with major enterprise contracts.