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From the employer's careers site First seen 29 Oct 2026

Sales Engineer - Regulated Industries

Plaid San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$196.8K - $322.8K per year

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Description

Compensation

The on-target earnings (OTE) for this position ranges from $196,800/year to $322,800/year encompassing all zones. The target OTE will vary based on the job's location.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the lead technical advisor from discovery through solution design, evaluation, technical win, and post-sale handoff.
  • Partner with AEs to connect technical capabilities to business value across regulated industries.
  • Lead discovery, demos, architecture design, and RFIs/RFPs for payments, account verification, onboarding, income, and fraud workflows.
  • Run hands-on API pilots and POCs, defining success criteria, diagnosing gaps, and guiding integration tradeoffs.
  • Surface product, privacy, security, and compliance requirements early and coordinate appropriate specialist reviews.
  • Build reusable solution guides, reference architectures, and enablement that support partner integrations and downstream adoption.
  • Shape vertical strategy and product feedback with Sales, Product, Partnerships, and Marketing.
  • Partner with Implementation and the broader SE team on successful handoffs, adoption, and shared best practices.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of customer-facing experience in technical selling, solutions engineering, or enterprise consulting.
  • 3+ years supporting one or more regulated industries, including Public Sector, Healthcare, Education, Utilities, or similarly regulated environments.
  • Experience leading complex technical evaluations and partnering strategically with AEs across multistakeholder pursuits.
  • Hands-on API and web/mobile architecture knowledge; ability to build demos, solution diagrams, and integration guidance.
  • Strong discovery, communication, and customer empathy, connecting technical choices to business outcomes.
  • Ability to learn new sectors, navigate ambiguity, and validate product-market fit.
  • Sound judgment working with Product, Partnerships, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Security, and commercial stakeholders.
  • Ability to build reusable technical assets and support partner-led integrations and adoption.
  • Willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time.

Skills

Required

  • technical selling
  • solutions engineering
  • enterprise consulting
  • API
  • web/mobile architecture

Nice to have

  • fintech/payments
  • identity
  • fraud
  • income-verification experience
  • public-sector procurement
  • systems integrators
  • healthcare platforms

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