freedompay - Sales Engineer

Remote - Select USA Remote Locations - USA *3w ago

Remote Mid NA Fintech Payments Sales Engineer Online Merchant Privacy Counsel Documentation Team Management Close Pipeline Management CRM Management

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; technical or business discipline preferred. • 3–5+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Consulting, or a comparable pre-sales role, with a track record of supporting deals that closed. • Commercial mindset: you understand quota, pipeline, and forecasting, and you see your work in terms of revenue won. • Working knowledge of payments and FinTech, including how card-present and card-not-present transactions move through gateway, processor, and network. • Comfort with APIs and integration concepts, enough to hold credible technical conversations with developers and architects. • Ability to run multiple opportunities at the same time, prioritizing ruthlessly and responding quickly. • Excellent communication: clear, confident, and persuasive with technical and business audiences. • Proficiency using AI tools to improve Sales Engineering workflows, such as building skills, prompts, and automations for discovery, demo preparation, and RFP responses. • Willingness to travel periodically for client meetings and industry events. • Experience in the Payments or FinTech industry, with familiarity with POS, eCommerce, and mobile payment ecosystems. • Experience selling to enterprise merchants in hospitality, retail, gaming, or other verticals served by FreedomPay. • Familiarity with payment gateway integrations, certification, and ISV/partner ecosystems. • Knowledge of PCI DSS, P2PE, EMV, and tokenization. • CRM or similar pipeline management experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive Pipeline and Win Rate • Partner with Sales on qualification, helping prioritize opportunities with the best chance of closing and the highest revenue potential. • Run technical discovery that uncovers the client's real business drivers, buying criteria, and decision process, not just their technical stack. • Deliver demos and proofs of concept built around the client's business case and tied to the reasons they will buy. • Identify competitive threats and technical objections early, and arm Sales with the positioning to beat them. • Keep deals moving: respond fast, remove technical blockers, and help Sales shorten the sales cycle. • Contribute to pipeline reviews, forecasts, and deal strategy with an honest technical view of what will and won't close. • Own the technical response on RFIs, RFPs, and security questionnaires, delivering accurate, persuasive answers on tight deadlines. • Focus on what scores and what wins, and make sure FreedomPay's strengths are clear to evaluators. • Keep RFP content current and reusable so the team responds faster, and wins more, on every bid. • Be the Connection Point • Escalate complex architecture and advanced solutioning to Solution Engineering at the right moment, and brief them well enough to hit the ground running. • Work with Product, Systems Integrations, Account Management, and Partner teams to make sure what is sold can be delivered. • Bring field intelligence, competitive losses, and customer requests to Product in a form that influences the roadmap. • Hand off every closed deal with commitments, scope, and technical context clearly documented for implementation. • Sell Smarter with AI • Use AI and automation to cut the time spent on discovery prep, demo setup, and RFP drafting, so you can cover more opportunities without losing quality. • Build and share skills, workflows, and reusable assets that make the whole team faster. • Maintain the Sales Engineering knowledge base across Confluence and SharePoint. • Represent FreedomPay at client meetings, partner events, and industry conferences.