Sales Engineer, Tray.ai
$200-240k
+ Stock Options
Low-code automation platform
Be an early applicant
Low-code automation platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower citizen automators so that any organization can automate.
Role
Who you are
- Consultative. You have a strong bedside manner, you earn trust quickly, make people feel heard, and guide rather than pitch
- Technical breadth. You cover a lot of ground. You don't need to be a deep expert in any one domain, but you naturally demonstrate range across APIs, cloud, data, integration, and AI, and you can go a level deeper than the buyer on demand
- AI early adopter. You're clearly leaning into AI. You use these tools yourself, you have opinions, and you can speak credibly about agents, LLMs, and where the technology is going
- Proactive. You take ownership of delivery and go above and beyond to help people get there. You see what's needed and do it without being told
- Confident, adaptable presenter who can shift between technical builders, IT leaders, and the C-suite, and who keeps composure when a demo or a question goes sideways
- Strong discovery instincts, you ask the right questions before reaching for a solution
- Genuine learning agility. We're moving toward new, fast-changing ways of building software; we care more about how fast you can pick something up than what you already know
- Organized and reliable, you track commitments and never make someone chase you
- We're flexible here on purpose. A typical fit has ~3+ years in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or technical consulting, ideally with exposure to SaaS, iPaaS, automation, or AI platforms, and experience with complex enterprise cycles and POC execution. But we will happily look at less conventional backgrounds, strong builders, technical founders, or fast-rising ICs from adjacent roles, where the four traits are obviously present
What the job involves
- As a Sales Engineer at Tray.ai, you are the technical strategist and trusted advisor in every deal. You partner with Account Executives to run the technical sale end-to-end, discovery, solution design, demos, POCs, and the technical close, across our orchestration and AI platform
- This is not an order-taking role. We need someone who owns the technical thread, moves deals forward without being asked, and brings a strong point of view on how to win
- As our platform evolves, that increasingly means helping technical buyers think through how they'd build and ship their own use cases and, when it moves the deal, building them
- We are deliberately open in the background. We would rather hire raw, fast-rising talent with a broad range and obvious momentum than a deeply specialized SE who is set in one way of working
- Own the technical sale. Lead discovery to deeply understand a prospect's challenges, technical environment, and success criteria before opening the product. Design and deliver tailored demos that lead with business outcomes. Architect solutions on Tray's platform that solve real problems. Build and execute POCs with clear success criteria and stakeholder alignment. Drive the technical close: anticipate objections, remove blockers, and write technical close plans
- Be a strategic deal partner. Proactively identify what each deal needs to win and execute without being asked. Influence deal strategy alongside AEs rather than just answering technical questions. Own follow-through on every technical commitment within agreed timeframes, and keep AEs and stakeholders informed proactively
- Help buyers build what's next. Help technical and business buyers reason through their own use cases and build working examples when it accelerates the deal. As our platform evolves toward letting teams generate applications with AI, you'll translate that shift into clear value for both engineers and executives
- Build and share expertise. Stay current on AI agents, LLMs, MCP, and the rapidly evolving automation landscape. Contribute reusable assets and learnings that elevate the SE org. Represent Tray externally through workshops, webinars, events, and content
Our take
Tray.ai allows employees to effectively "become programmers", empowering them to build out automations tailored for their role. With this approach, the company fills a big need in the automation space - in between high end tools like Mulesoft, and simpler tools like Zapier.
Tray’s rise comes on the heels of a wider trend, where integration and automation are becoming a key part of the way enterprises work. Its customers include the likes of SAP, VMWare, Lyft, Intercom and IBM, which certainly suggests a real need for its tools.
The company has secured substantial funds that will enable it to continue building out its solutions. It also rebranded from "Tray.io" to "Tray.ai" to reflect its centring of artificial intelligence in its solutions, supporting the building of autonomic agents that can adapt, learn and optimize in real time.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2022
$40m
SERIES C
Nov 2019
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $154.5m
Company benefits
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Generous conference and learning budget
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rich Waldron
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously COO of iFind Media, who also co-founded Plan.nr.
Alistair Russell
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously Web Developer at esure, mSpace and Vibrant Media.
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