Solutions Consultant
Method · San Francisco, CA · 6 mo ago
On-siteConsulting$150k–$180k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Solutions Consultant plays a crucial role in Method's technical sales and expansion efforts. They join high-priority deals early, serving as the technical partner to Account Executives (AEs). Their responsibilities include leading technical discovery and solutioning, improving technical sales velocity, and occasionally supporting post-sale solutioning and expansion.
Responsibilities
- Join high-priority deals early (often call 1–2) as the technical partner to the AE; lead technical discovery and solutioning.
- Translate customer architecture, constraints, and goals into a clear proposed approach (integration plan, sequencing, risks, and tradeoffs).
- Improve technical sales velocity by tightening the cycle from discovery → solutioning → terms with crisp technical alignment and next steps.
- Occasionally support post-sale solutioning and expansion: participate in customer roadmap conversations, propose new use cases, and accelerate adoption.
- Build solutions playbooks for Discovery and reference architecture to embed a repeatable solutions motion across pre and post sales:
- Create and maintain a lightweight knowledge base / product catalog
- Partner closely with AEs, CS, TIEs, and Product to surface recurring issues, improve enablement, and feed product learnings back into roadmap decisions.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in technical Solutioning in a pre-sales environment
- Strong technical foundation (CS preferred; STEM/engineering/math/physics acceptable with clear technical depth)
- Prior experience working with APIs (selling, implementing, supporting, or solutioning)
- Demonstrated critical thinking: you consistently get behind the question and give answers that match the underlying need
- Comfortable operating in both pre-sales and post-sales contexts; you can shift between solution design and customer enablement
- High ownership and speed: you ramp quickly, contribute actively on calls, and produce durable assets (playbooks, guides, demos) that reduce future load
- Comfortable in a startup environment with ambiguous processes and evolving org structure
Qualifications
- Experience selling/solutioning into lenders, fintechs, or complex enterprise buyers
- Experience building technical champions within customer orgs and partnering deeply with engineering/product teams
- History of creating technical enablement content and reusable solution frameworks
Skills
- Deep technical comfort (ideally in APIs)
- Strong critical thinking
- Consultative approach
Benefits
Method offers a competitive benefits package, including:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Competitive annual US base salary range: $150,000 - $180,000
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Professional development opportunities
Pay
$150,000 - $180,000 annually
Schedule
Full-time