Sales Engineer, Persona
$130-165k
+ Equity
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$130-165k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
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
- 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
- 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 behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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"Everyone who I have met and worked with so far have been intelligent and welcoming, and I feel like I can dive in and ask for help from anyone at..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217.6m
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 values
- People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
- Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
- Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
- Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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