Dust
Global Head of Solutions Engineering
New York
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About the role
- ABOUT DUST Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it.
- With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world's fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done.
- With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion.
Responsibilities
- Lead the organization across pre-sales and post-sales Solutions Engineering.
- Hire, develop, and manage both Solutions Engineers and future SE leaders.
- Establish a high talent bar and build a team that combines technical depth, business judgment, executive presence, and customer empathy.
- Create clear decision rights and operating rhythms across regions and functions.
- Develop the technical strategy for Dust's most important enterprise opportunities.
- Build a clear understanding of why Dust wins and loses technical evaluations, then turn those insights into improvements across the organization.
- Raise performance across discovery, demonstrations, solution design, pilots, architecture reviews, security validation, and technical handoffs.
- Partner with Customer Success on strategic workshops, complex integrations, new architectures, and technically influenced expansion.
- Establish a clear interface with AI Deployment, which owns initial implementation, enablement, production use, and first measurable value.
- Relocation support
Requirements
- You have built, scaled, or significantly transformed a Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Customer Engineering, Technical Account Management, or comparable customer-facing technical function.
- You have recruited, retained, and developed exceptional customer-facing technical talent across multiple regions, segments, or customer motions.
- You have owned measurable GTM outcomes and personally helped win complex enterprise opportunities.
- You are a hands-on, low-ego leader who communicates clearly across Sales, Customer Success, AI Deployment, Product, and Engineering.
Compensation
- $275K-$350K OTE (NY); 130-160k EUR OTE (Paris)
Benefits
- Define the global vision, strategy, and operating model for Solutions Engineering at Dust.
- Design the team structure, leadership model, roles, career paths, coverage model, operating standards, and performance systems.
- Partner with Sales leadership to improve technical win rate, evaluation conversion, qualified pipeline coverage, and evaluation velocity.
- Establish consistent methods for allocating resources, identifying risk, inspecting opportunities, and learning from outcomes.
- Significant equity package in a Sequoia-backed startup
- Health insurance for you and your dependents
Company info
- We're serving great customers https://dust.tt/customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026.
- You will define how an AI-native Solutions Engineering organization helps customers move from understanding Dust's potential to making it a critical part of how their companies operate.
- Build the post-sales Solutions Engineering motion that helps customers adopt more advanced, valuable, and sticky use cases.
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