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San Francisco, CA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: $ 230000 - 290000
Posted on: Yesterday
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Want to help us help others Were hiring!

GoFundMe Pro (formerly Classy) is seeking a Director Solutions Engineering to lead and scale our Solutions Engineering function as we continue to grow our enterprise business. This role sits at the intersection of sales product engineering and customer successand is responsible for ensuring we deliver technically sound scalable and compelling solutions to our most strategic nonprofit customers.

Reporting into the Senior Director of Solutions & Partnerships this leader will manage and develop a team of Solutions Engineers while also remaining deeply engaged in complex deals strategic accounts and cross-functional initiatives. Youll shape how we show up technically in the market how we partner with Sales and how customer feedback informs our roadmap.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who has lived the enterprise SE motion knows how to coach & mentor senior technical talent and can translate complexity into clarityboth for customers and internal teams.

Candidates considered for this role will be located in the San Francisco Bay Area. There will
be an in-office requirement of 3x a week.

What Youll Do

Solutions Engineering Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead mentor and grow a team of Enterprise Solutions Engineers supporting complex high-value nonprofit customers.
  • Set expectations best practices and quality bars for technical discovery solution design demos and customer engagement.
  • Coach SEs on executive presence technical storytelling and navigating long multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
  • Partner with Recruiting and cross-functional leaders on hiring onboarding and team scaling.

Enterprise Sales & Technical Strategy

  • Serve as a senior technical leader on the most complex and strategic enterprise opportunities.
  • Partner closely with Sales leadership to align on deal strategy technical positioning and resource allocation.
  • Ensure consistency and rigor in how solutions are architected communicated and positioned across the funnel.
  • Support RFPs security reviews integrations discussions and architectural evaluations as needed.

Cross-Functional Partnership

  • Act as a key bridge between Solutions Engineering Product Engineering Professional Services and Customer Success.
  • Ensure smooth handoffs from pre-sales to post-sales with clear solution context and technical documentation.
  • Provide structured actionable feedback from the field to inform product roadmap and prioritization.
  • Collaborate on enablement tooling and documentation to support scale and repeatability.

Operational Excellence & Enablement

  • Establish and evolve SE processes frameworks and artifacts (discovery templates solution diagrams demo strategy etc.).
  • Improve forecasting accuracy deal support models and capacity planning.
  • Help define success metrics for the Solutions Engineering function and drive continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to thought leadership internal training and best-practice sharing across the org.

Who You Are

  • 12 years of experience in Solutions Engineering Sales Engineering Solutions Architecture or related technical pre-sales roles.
  • Prior experience leading SE teams with a strong point of view on what great looks like.
  • As a player-coach youll remain deeply involved in complex customer solutioning while setting the bar for technical excellence storytelling and execution across the team.
  • Deep technical fluency across SaaS platforms APIs integrations and enterprise architectures.
  • Strong familiarity with Salesforce ecosystems and complex system integrations.
  • Proven success supporting enterprise sales cycles with long timelines and multiple decision-makers.
  • Exceptional communicator with the ability to engage credibly with executives technical stakeholders and internal teams.
  • Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levelsfrom setting direction to jumping into a deal.
  • Builder mindset: excited to shape processes develop people and evolve a function over time.
  • Passion for mission-driven work and helping nonprofits leverage technology for impact.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience supporting enterprise nonprofit fundraising or mission-driven organizations.
  • Background working closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap decisions.
  • Familiarity with middleware data pipelines security considerations and enterprise IT environments.
  • Experience in scaling pre-sales teams

Why This Role Matters

The Director Solutions Engineering plays a critical role in how we win serve and grow our enterprise customers. This leader ensures that our Solutions Engineering team operates as a strategic advantagehelping nonprofits see whats possible trust our platform and succeed long-term.

Why youll love it here

  • Make an Impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year.
  • Innovative Environment: Work with a diverse passionate and talented team in a fast-paced forward-thinking atmosphere.
  • Collaborative Team: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together.
  • Competitive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
  • Holistic Support: Enjoy financial assistance for things like hybrid work family planning along with generous parental leave flexible time-off policies and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being.
  • Growth Opportunities: Participate in learning development and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow.
  • Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity equity and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups.
  • Community Engagement: Make a difference through our volunteering program.

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The annual U.S. salary range for this full-time position is $230000 - $290000 which may include potential sales incentive payments. Your recruiter can share more about the specific OTE structure for this position during the hiring process.The company also offers equity and other benefits to employees including healthcare dental vision life insurance and 401(k) saving addition to this wage there are geolocation differentials that will increase pay depending on the work location. Additionally pay may vary depending on other factors including skills experience education or training. Your recruiter can share more about thespecific total compensation packagebased on your location during the hiring process.

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Want to help us help others Were hiring!GoFundMe Pro (formerly Classy) is seeking a Director Solutions Engineering to lead and scale our Solutions Engineering function as we continue to grow our enterprise business. This role sits at the intersection of sales product engineering and customer success...
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