Customer Engineer (Pre-Sales)
Federato · San Francisco Bay Area · Yesterday
RemoteRemoteOTHR$175k–$195k/yrFull-time
Role Overview
As a Customer Engineer at Federato, you’ll be a hands-on in helping insurance carriers and MGUs realize the full power of the Federato platform. You’ll partner with Sales to lead technical discovery, solution design, and demo delivery. You’ll also co-create the systems, tools, and content that drive our early CE motion.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own technical sales engagements from discovery through close
- Deliver tailored, high-impact demos focused on business outcomes
- Translate customer workflows into Federato configurations including quoting, rating, endorsements, and portfolio optimization
- Lead RFP and security questionnaire completion in collaboration with Product and Security teams
- Build and maintain reusable demo environments reflecting target customer segments
- Develop onboarding materials, configuration libraries, and example rating logic
- Partner with the Manager, Pre-Sales and Product Marketing to refine messaging frameworks and technical collateral
- Co-define and continuously improve the pre-sales lifecycle (discovery, solutioning, handoffs, etc.)
- Contribute to shared team assets like: Discovery playbooks, Configuration scopes and success criteria templates, Demo setup guides and walkthroughs
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align roadmap with customer pain points
- Surface recurring objections and product gaps with clarity and context
- Provide post-sale context to Implementation & Customer Success
Who We Hope You Are
- 6–10+ years in technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or technical consulting
- Hands-on experience in demos, architecture design, and enterprise sales support
- Strong insurance domain knowledge (or curiosity to learn quickly)
- Familiarity with policy lifecycle management, rating, quoting, and underwriting systems
- Ability to communicate technical value to both execs and practitioners
- Coding competence in Javascript and SQL
- Up to 30% Travel
Our Company
- Base salary range: $175,000 to $195,000, with on-target earnings (OTE) ranging from $245,000 to $275,000
- Total compensation package includes stock options, benefits, and additional perks
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company