Solutions Engineer, Commercial

Vanta

6d • Remote

About The Position

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.
As a Commercial Solutions Engineer at Vanta, you’ll be leading the technical discussion with our mid-market customer base & VIP logos side-by-side with our Commercial Sales team. Your main goal, ensure there’s nothing stopping our customers from realizing the fullest value with Vanta in pursuit of their own security goals and successful customer retention.
The Solutions Team drives customer acquisition and accelerates revenue growth through a mastery of strategic sales and Vanta platform expertise. We create meaningful leverage across Vanta through deep partnerships with Sales - Working side by side to elevate discovery, articulate value, and enable consistent, high quality sales execution. You’ll be an integral part of the Commercial team, working pre-sales to consult and create innovative solutions for our customers. Your attention to detail focused on customer needs will drive stickiness and ensure customers are realizing value from onboarding through adoption, culminating with renewal year-over-year. This will ultimately improve retention and overall success of our Sales teams and customers while helping to collect customer references, case studies, and product feedback to influence product roadmap.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of pre-sales customer-facing, technical experience as a Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer or equivalent title
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure & Operating Systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and cloud application architecture
• Strong project management skills with a proven ability to operate effectively in uncertain environments.
• You are creative, curious. technical, and naturally persuasive
• You are detail-oriented and organized
• You love listening to customers, discussing strategy with colleagues, but also diving into the weeds
• You can interact with various titles and roles within an organization including the technical and security-minded, plus executives within large companies
• General knowledge with a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash, and JavaScript) and a desire to expand those skills
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with REST API development and service integrations is a plus
• Ideally has prior B2B SaaS experience

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with prospects to understand their security, compliance, cloud infrastructure, and development workflows.
• Partner closely with Account Executives to develop deal strategy, identify technical champions, and guide prospects through evaluation, proof-of-value, and purchase decisions.
• Deliver tailored product demonstrations, walkthroughs, and integration deep dives aligned to customer use cases and success criteria.
• Act as the primary technical advisor during the evaluation process, addressing technical objections, competitive comparisons, and solution fit.
• Develop and maintain deep expertise in our product capabilities, integrations, configurations, APIs, partner ecosystem, and competitive landscape.
• Design and explain how our solution integrates with customers’ cloud providers, identity systems, version control platforms, and security tooling.
• Ensure a clean technical handoff to Customer Success and Implementation teams post-sale.
• Support revenue growth by responding quickly and effectively to inbound technical questions from Sales and prospects.
• Help qualify opportunities by identifying technical fit, risks, and dependencies early in the sales cycle.
• Participate in account planning, QBRs, and expansion conversations by demonstrating ongoing technical value.
• Capture and communicate structured customer feedback to Product, helping influence roadmap priorities for the Upmarket segment.
• Build reusable demos, technical documentation, reference architectures, and enablement materials in partnership with Product, Success, and Marketing.
• Share learnings from the field to improve sales motions, messaging, and technical positioning.
• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive Solutions Engineering culture focused on continuous improvement, technical excellence, and customer empathy.
• Mentor peers and help evolve best practices for technical selling in the Upmarket segment.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed