Lead Pre-Sales Solutions Architect

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About the role

  • Pre-sales Solutions Architect Leader scaling technical coverage, team performance, and deal velocity. Leading technical sales across Supabase’s Postgres platform channels.

Responsibilities

  • Own the health, direction, and performance of the Solutions Architecture function
  • Lead, hire, coach, and develop the SA team
  • Onboard new SAs and calibrate them against channel-specific technical evaluation prompts
  • Run regular 1:1s, review deal strategy, PoC scoping, and objection handling, and provide direct feedback
  • Build and maintain discovery, PoC, objection/RFP, and competitive-positioning playbooks
  • Set and maintain standards for technical depth, commercial instinct, and quota attainment
  • Own and rebalance SA coverage across Direct Sales, Hyperscalers, Accelerators/Incubators/VCs, SfP + OAuth Partners, and Solution Providers
  • Resolve coverage gaps and decide between hiring, reassignment, or controlled exceptions
  • Approve opportunities requiring Leader-level involvement
  • Oversee technical ownership, qualification, PoCs, evaluations, objection handling, and commercial technical alignment across the pipeline
  • Escalate on architecture, security, compliance, RFP, security questionnaire, and competitive issues
  • Partner with Sales leadership, Partner Leads, Engineering, Product, TAM, and Customer Engineering
  • Represent aggregated market signals to Engineering and Product and prioritize recurring blockers and roadmap gaps
  • Ensure consistent pre-sale to post-sale handoff quality
  • Drive team-wide ARR bookings, deal velocity, PoC win rate, pipeline coverage, handoff quality, and team health

Requirements

  • Technical depth sufficient to design production-grade architecture, debug a PoC, and build CTO credibility
  • Experience hiring, coaching, and growing a technical sales team
  • Ability to assess and rebalance Solutions Architecture coverage across five channels
  • Commercial judgment focused on team-wide ARR bookings and quota attainment
  • Ability to surface expansion opportunities across teams, workloads, and use cases
  • Ability to communicate with senior engineers, coach SAs, and brief sales leadership
  • Experience creating scalable playbooks from competitive patterns, objection responses, and architecture templates
  • Track record of carrying and closing a pre-sales quota personally
  • Experience being accountable for a team's aggregate number
  • Production-building experience and an engineering, founding, or hands-on technical background
  • Experience leading a technical, customer-facing team
  • Familiarity with HubSpot, Hex, AdminConsole, and Grafana

Benefits

  • Fully remote
  • WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
  • ESOP (equity ownership) for every team member
  • Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work equipment
  • 100% health insurance coverage for employees
  • 80% health insurance coverage for dependents
  • Annual company off-site
  • Flexible, asynchronous work
  • Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Grafana

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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