Factory

Regional Director, Solutions Engineering, Enterprise

San Francisco, CA. Posted 23 days ago

The role

You will build and lead the Enterprise Solutions Engineering team. You will manage the full customer lifecycle from pre-sales discovery and demos to post-sales adoption and expansion.

What you will do

  • Build the Enterprise Solutions Engineering team by defining hiring profiles and recruiting founding engineers
  • Design and iterate the team operating playbook across the customer lifecycle
  • Own technical win rate, time-to-technical-win, pilot-to-production conversion, and post-sales adoption
  • Partner with Sales leadership and Account Executives for technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept
  • Carry accounts directly while the team ramps
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex evaluations and high-stakes Enterprise deals
  • Onboard, coach, and develop Solutions Engineers
  • Act as the voice of the field by feeding customer insight back to Product and Engineering

Required qualifications

  • 4+ years leading Enterprise Solutions Engineering, Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or customer engineering teams in enterprise software
  • Experience with at least one team you built or scaled from a small starting point
  • A strong hiring track record of sourcing, assessing, and closing senior technical customer-facing talent
  • A strong technical foundation and fluency in modern software development workflows, developer tooling, CI/CD, and AI coding tools
  • Proven ability to partner with Sales while protecting technical integrity and customer trust
  • Comfort in high-pressure, customer-facing environments
  • Operational discipline in tracking technical win rates and pilot outcomes
  • Executive presence and clear communication with developers, architects, and CTOs

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools, LLM-based products, or developer platform sales
  • Background as a software engineer or in a technical consulting role
  • Experience standing up a new team or function for a high-growth company

About the company

Factory builds the platform for self-improving software development to help enterprise engineering teams become autonomous software factories.