Sales Engineer, Persona
$130-165k
Offers Equity & Commission
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Job no longer available
Identity verification infrastructure solution
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-165k
Offers Equity & Commission
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To humanize online identity by helping companies verify that their users are who they say they are.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of work experience in a technical customer-facing role (e.g. sales engineering, solutions engineering, demo engineer, solutions architect, implementations engineer, solutions consultant)
- You have a proven track record of leading prospect demonstration and POCs
- Experience with APIs, a strong understanding of JSON, and proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, or Java. Bonus points for knowledge of web development principles and/or the ability to build internal tools using one of these languages
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical and business concepts to technical and non-technical personas
- You’re an action-oriented and organized self-starter who isn’t afraid to get scrappy to solve customer issues – you have a strong work ethic and are committed to excellence
What the job involves
- Sales Engineering is a team of subject matter experts who serve as the trusted technical advisor to prospective customers. You will lead prospects through their Identity Management revolution by connecting their needs to Persona's value in order to win new customers and drive revenue growth
- You will deliver best in class product demonstrations and use your learnings to help us build better and more dynamic demos
- Internally, your insights from the field will help shape our product roadmap and will pave the way for future customers, ensuring you play a key role in our commitment to customer excellence and allowing Persona to stay ahead of market trends
- The SE team is a high visibility and high impact team. It's a great role for someone who enjoys learning the intricacies of a product to drive value to prospects, leading through innovative problem-solving, and doing whatever it takes to convert prospects into customers. Variety, ambiguity, innovation, and ownership of complex problems are all big components of this role
- Own the demo environments from idea to reality: build and own applications that illustrate the power of the Persona platform
- Craft and deliver dynamic product demonstrations
- Serve as the primary technical POC who brings thought leadership to our prospective customers
- Help to close deals and drive new revenue
- Play a critical role in defining our technical sales strategy and develop collateral to help scale the sales organization
- Engage with Product and Engineering teams to incorporate and prioritize customer feedback, and help inform the roadmap
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case.
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location and behavioural patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts.
An impressive partnership with MDT saw Persona enable credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time, strengthening fraud prevention. The company continues to attract funding which supports the scaling of its offerings and reach. In fact, in 2025, it reached a $2 billion valuation, which showcases the success it has had.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$200m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $417.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO & Co-founder)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO & Co-founder)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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