Sales Engineer
Sales Engineer at Blue Orange Digital, a boutique data & AI consultancy in New York. Owns a book of accounts end to end: runs technical discovery, scopes and prices engagements, writes SOWs, and hands-on stands up the first sprint using Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, SQL, and Python. Base salary plus variable tied to sales and production delivery.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- New York, US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years in a client-facing technical role at a data platform, analytics, or AI company (Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or technical AE)
- Direct evidence of revenue ownership: carried a quota or been the named technical owner on sizable deals
- Hands-on engineering within the last three years: write SQL and Python, shipped pipelines with dbt, Airflow, or equivalent, debugged in production
- Working depth on Snowflake or Databricks, and enough fluency in the other to be useful in a bake-off
- Able to hold a room with a CDO and a staff engineer at the same time and be credible to both
- Comfort selling scope and outcomes rather than licenses and features
- Resume and application materials submitted in English
Nice to have
- Time inside a consultancy, SI, or Big 4 practice (familiarity with utilization and margin)
- Experience selling into private equity portfolio companies or a PE value creation team
- Production work on RAG, agentic systems, or ML platforms
- A partner network at Snowflake or Databricks that can be activated
Full description
Company overview:
Blue Orange Digital is a boutique data & AI consultancy that delivers enterprise-grade results. We design and build modern data platforms, analytics, and ML/AI Agent solutions for mid‑market and enterprise clients across Private Equity, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Retail.
Our teams work with technologies like Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem to turn messy, real-world data into trustworthy, actionable insight.
We’re a builder‑led, client‑first culture that prizes ownership, clear communication, and shipping high‑impact work.
Note: Please submit your resume in English, as all application materials must be in English for review and consideration.
Position overview:
You have spent the last few years as a Solutions Architect or Sales Engineer at a data platform company. You know the pattern. You run discovery, you map the architecture, you earn the technical win, and then you hand the customer to an SI who builds something you would not have built. Six months later you get the escalation.We are hiring the person who stops doing that. At Blue Orange Digital, the person who scopes the engagement is the person who stands up the first sprint. You own the client from first call throughproduction, and you carry a number for it.
What you will do
- Own a book of new and existing accounts, carry a services number against it, and forecast it accurately
- Run technical discovery yourself, without waiting for an engineer to join the call
- Scope engagements and price them, including the parts of the estimate that will hurt if you get them wrong
- Write the proposal and the SOW, then defend the scope when the client wants twice the work for the same number
- Stand up the first sprint on the engagements you sell, hands on the keyboard, before handing to a delivery lead
- Build reference architectures, demos, and proofs of concept that reflect what we will actually deploy
- Work our partner channels at Snowflake and Databricks, where co-sell is a real motion and not a logo on a slide
- Feed what you learn in the field back into our service line definitions and pricing
What you bring
- 5 or more years in a client-facing technical role at a data platform, analytics, or AI company, as a Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or technical Account Executive
- Direct evidence of revenue ownership. You have carried a quota, or you have been the named technical owner on deals you can size and describe
- Hands-on engineering within the last three years. You can write SQL and Python, you have shipped pipelines with dbt, Airflow, or an equivalent, and you have debugged something in production at an inconvenient hour