Senior Solutions Engineer Financial Audit

About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity privacy and financial audit. Put simply we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re based in San Francisco CA but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives Bessemer Venture Partners 8VC Floodgate Y Combinator DNX Ventures Global Founders Capital Justin Kan Elad Gil and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive driven humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.
As an early stage start-up employee you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product you will find a home at Fieldguide.

About the Role:

The Fieldguide Senior Solutions Engineer is the primary solution lead with customers and prospects in all markets. Our customers are some of the nation’s top enterprise CPA firms and the product they select will be rapidly adopted by practitioners and will have lasting impacts to their growing organization. Fieldguide’s business growth relies heavily on acquisition of new customers in all markets and hence this is a highly visible pre-sales role.

As a Fieldguide platform expert you will facilitate product demonstrations convey our value proposition and advise customers on industry best practices. The Senior Solutions Engineer partners closely with Account Executives on all enterprise level customers. This role crafts impactful customer engagements that drive a high volume of adoption in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Effectively partner with Account Executives to understand prospects’ challenges and articulate Fieldguide’s value proposition vision and strategy to prospects

• Build credibility with technical champion at the prospect company

• Understand and help orchestrate all phases of the sales cycle including leading technical validations during the Proof of Value phase

• Increase sales velocity and contribute to closing deals

• Participate and contribute to the enterprise sales process product or best practices initiatives

• Manage organized discoveries to uncover customer needs and requirements that relate to decision criteria and key business issues

• Present and demonstrate the product in a persuasive way based on key messages decision criteria and key business issues ensuring the product is presented competitively

• Successfully manage customer questions and objections and resolve concerns

• Partner with Customer Success to enable complex onboarding of enterprise customers

• Partner with Sales and Marketing on deal strategies and with Engineering Product and Design teams to work through challenging technical problems

• Engage with product management to provide insight into prospect and customer needs and industry trends influencing the roadmap for market success

• Ensure that the roadmap is clear to customers as required to influence buying decisions

• Provide leadership by creating content and trainings for key areas

• Work with the extended team to ensure that they are successful and learn from your expertise

• Embody Fieldguide’s core leadership principles and cultural values

About You:

• 3+ years of hands on customer facing enterprise solutions engineering experience with demonstrated success persuading and influencing SaaS deals

• 3+ years of experience in financial audit at a public accounting firm

• Experience walking through product demonstrations with C-suite executives while maintaining poise and confidence

• Intrinsically motivated to exceed goals you don’t get intimidated but rather get excited by ambitious goals

• Undeniable executive presence with acute attention to what to say and perhaps more importantly how to say it. You have excellent speaking and presentation skills and a unique savviness for networking in complex business situations

• Sales process and infrastructure experience including excellent working knowledge of at least one leading CRM (Salesforce Hubspot etc)

• You are a team player and you are mission-first. You’re joining a hard-working team that trusts each other deeply. We won’t compromise on this

• Preferred: Industry knowledge of assurance and advisory services preferably with exposure to cybersecurity or regulatory standards

What We Do

Fieldguide offers market-leading Artificial Intelligence and Cloud for Advisory and Audit firms. Built by former Big Four practitioners and veteran technology leaders our platform digitizes the end-to-end engagement workflow on a single cloud-native platform. Fieldguide's AI Advisory & Audit Cloud is trusted by top CPA firms to unlock growth increase margins and delight clients. Fieldguide AI is award winning being recognized by CPA Practice Advisor (3x Technology Innovation Award) and Accounting Today (2x Top New Product). Fieldguide is based in San Francisco and backed by top investors like 8VC Floodgate Y Combinator Fourth Realm Justin Kan Eric Ries and many more