Sales Engineering Manager, High Growth
San Francisco · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 12, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- San Francisco
About Sierra
- Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
- We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
- Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
About the role
- Sierra is seeking a Sales Engineering Manager, High Growth to lead, coach, and develop a high-caliber SE team while owning enterprise deals as a player-coach.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-caliber SE team, providing guidance, assigning projects, and ensuring technical excellence.
- Own your own enterprise deals as an individual contributor, running discovery, demos, and technical deep dives alongside your team.
- Guide your team in designing and delivering compelling technical demos and proofs of concept for Sierra’s platform.
- Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Agent Engineering teams to define best practices, playbooks, and repeatable processes.
- Act as a technical leader in early-stage customer conversations to help your team solve customer needs.
- Conduct regular performance evaluations, foster professional growth, and coach team members.
- Translate what you learn in the field into coaching and playbooks that raise the whole team.
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or customer-facing technical sales.
- At least 3+ years of experience in a leadership capacity.
- Experience developing frameworks for how SEs partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to deliver impact efficiently across accounts.
- History of establishing metrics and systems that measure SE impact on pipeline health, win rates, and customer adoption.
- Track record of leading presales processes and supporting enterprise and strategic sales cycles from discovery through close.
- Ability to translate customer business problems into Sierra’s technical solutions and clearly communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee
- Discretionary benefit stipend
- Free alphorn lessons
- Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans
Workplace
- Primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco.
Skills
- APIs
- Webhooks
- JSON
- AI
- ML