Founding Solutions Engineer

About Stigg

Stigg is revolutionizing the SaaS industry with our API-first pricing and packaging platform, empowering engineering and product teams to implement and iterate on monetization strategies seamlessly. Our solution enables developers to build granular access control at the feature level, facilitating rapid experimentation and optimization. Backed by leading investors, including Red Dot Capital Partners and Unusual Ventures, we've secured $17.5 million in Series A funding, bringing our total investment to $24 million.

Role Overview

Joining Stigg as the Founding Solutions Engineer is a career-defining opportunity. You will be instrumental in shaping and executing how we engage with customers, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams. Collaborating directly with the CEO, CTO, and Head of Sales, you'll own technical discovery, design scalable solutions, and advocate for customer needs by integrating feedback into Stigg's roadmap.

In this role, you'll primarily focus on pre-sales activities, working closely with prospective customers to showcase the value of Stigg's platform. We will look to you as the technical subject matter expert, helping to secure wins, providing demos, completing RFIs/RFPs, leading the Proof of Value (POV) process, and partnering closely with engineering to convert customer feedback into feature requests. You'll help define and evolve Stigg's playbook for technical pre-sales and solution design, creating a foundation for scaling technical sales processes and delivering unmatched customer experiences. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-growing startup, working closely with innovative clients such as Miro, Webflow, and PagerDuty.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales to understand prospective customers' needs and tailor Stigg's technical solutions to solve pain points
• Lead technical discovery sessions, translating requirements into evaluation criteria to provide structure and repeatability to the POV process
• Collaborate directly with the CTO to build the Solutions Engineering Playbook: templates, and tools for technical discovery, solution design, and pre-sales engagements
• Deliver engaging, tailored demos, including detailed API walkthroughs, live coding sessions, and technical workshops that showcase Stigg's platform in a context-rich and hands-on manner
• Bridge teams, serving as the critical link between product, engineering, and sales, ensuring Stigg's features and integrations align with enterprise customer architectures and workflows
• Proactively address technical objections, ensuring stakeholders feel confident about integrating Stigg into their existing systems
• Support quick time-to-value for our customers, ensuring a smooth handoff to post-sales teams for successful onboarding and adoption
  
  
  

Requirements

Preferred Location:

• US, ideally New York
  
  

Technical Expertise:

• 5 years of experience in a similar role (Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Technical Consultant)
• Strong understanding of APIs, SaaS platforms, and cloud-based architectures
• Experience designing or implementing solutions with APIs and SDKs in complex customer environments
  
  

External Communication Skills:

• Ability to distill complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences while engaging deeply with technical stakeholders
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills to build trust with customers
  
  

Customer-Centric Mindset:

• Comfortable with working closely with customers, specifically engineers, and providing support during the proof of value and implementation phases
• Passion for solving customer problems and delivering impactful solutions
• A proactive approach to understanding customer pain points and crafting innovative responses
• Ability to advocate for engineering stakeholders during product roadmap discussions
  
  

Builder Mentality:

• Excited to create processes and tools from scratch in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Comfortable scaling processes to support multi-region enterprise customers
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a bias for action and problem-solving
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with integrating 3rd-party SDKs and APIs in software products."
• Familiar with cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud)
• Domain expertise in monetization, payments, or billing
• Preferably experience in a high-growth startup of a similar size
  
  
  

Benefits

Career Growth Potential: This role is designed for growth. As Stigg scales, you'll have opportunities to lead a team of solutions engineers or expand into strategic roles within product and customer success. If you're excited about building a category-defining company, we'd love to hear from you.

Call to Action: Compensation

• The On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this role is $200,000 to $240,000, including base salary and variable components
  
  

If you're passionate about empowering engineering teams, solving challenging technical problems, and being part of a dynamic startup environment, join us at Stigg and shape the future of SaaS pricing and packaging. Apply now and let's build something extraordinary together!