Strategic Solutions Engineer, Cresta
West
$175-205k
Plus equity. This role is variable target compensation eligible. There is potential to exceed target earnings when goals are surpassed
Real-time intelligence for contact centers
Job no longer available
Real-time intelligence for contact centers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$175-205k
Plus equity. This role is variable target compensation eligible. There is potential to exceed target earnings when goals are surpassed
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To use AI to help people learn high-value skills and make business radically more productive.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in customer-facing roles, including 1–3 years in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or consulting within the enterprise software or contact center industry
- Deep knowledge of contact center solutions, including telephony architecture (SIP, SBCs, ACDs, IVRs) and CCaaS platforms (e.g., Genesys, NICE, Five9, Amazon Connect)
- Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, especially large language models (LLMs), small language models (SLMs), and how they are applied in conversational AI and agent augmentation
- Experience with real-time systems, CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce), analytics platforms, and SaaS solution architecture
- Ability to design and communicate complex solutions clearly to both technical and business audiences
- Consultative mindset with a proven track record of leading strategic conversations, influencing stakeholders, and tailoring solutions to business goals
- Fast learner and self-starter who thrives in high-growth, high-collaboration environments
- Enthusiastic about Cresta’s mission and motivated to help customers unlock value from AI
- You embody our core Operating Principles
What the job involves
- As a Strategic Solutions Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of the AI transformation in customer experience
- Partnering with Sales Directors, you’ll serve as both a business consultant and technical expert—guiding prospective customers through the discovery, design, and validation of Cresta’s AI-powered solutions
- You’ll connect deeply with customer stakeholders to understand their business goals, technical environments, and operational challenges, and architect intelligent solutions that combine the power of LLMs, SLMs, and real-time AI assistance
- Your ability to translate both technical complexity and business impact will be critical to driving successful sales cycles and long-term customer outcomes
- Act as a consultative partner to customers—uncovering business objectives, technical environments, and operational challenges to map them to AI-driven solutions
- Act as a consultative advisor to prospective customers, uncovering operational workflows and strategic goals to design solutions leveraging Cresta’s real-time AI capabilities, including virtual agents, agent assist, and conversation intelligence
- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer systems, including contact center infrastructure, telephony and IVR architecture, and CRM/workforce management platforms
- Qualify and translate customer requirements into robust, scalable Cresta configurations, ensuring tight alignment with business value and technical feasibility
- Design and deliver compelling, tailored product demonstrations that highlight how Cresta’s AI-powered virtual agents, real-time coaching, and analytics can deliver measurable business outcomes
- Own the technical design and delivery of proof-of-value (POV) engagements, including integrations, real-time coaching workflows, and virtual agent use cases
- Run ROI workshops and build business case models that connect Cresta’s capabilities to quantifiable customer impact (e.g., cost reduction, efficiency, CSAT)
- Provide insights based on your experience with AI technologies, contact center transformation, and customer success strategies
- Serve as a technical liaison between Sales, Product, and Engineering—providing feedback on platform capabilities, customer needs, and market trends in AI, NLP, and contact center transformation
- Stay current on emerging technologies, including LLMs, SLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), speech recognition, and contact center AI platforms
- Deliver persuasive, tailored product demonstrations that showcase how Cresta’s AI—built on a proprietary architecture using large and small language models—drives measurable ROI through automation, efficiency, and improved customer outcomes
Our take
Cresta is an innovative customer service platform which leverages artificial intelligence in order to assist sales and service agents in improving their performance. The platform identifies the best employees and analyses why they outperform their colleagues before providing personalised guidance to other members of staff.
This unique approach enables the rapid sharing of best practices, and both improves and consistently implements customer service across an organisation. The app is fully compatible with mobile platforms, effectively providing an expert at every customer touch point. In addition, the machine learning aspect of Cresta enables companies to continuously optimise their performance.
Given that businesses globally spend over a trillion dollars on customer service calls each year, Cresta has a massive opportunity if it can continue to improve this aspect of its business for its clients. The company has already been recognised as an innovator in the space, with Forbes naming it one of the best startup employers of 2026, and the expansion of its AI solutions suggests it's poised and ready to move with the times and find further success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
129% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$125m
SERIES D
Mar 2022
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $276m
Company benefits
- Work with an A+ team of ex-Founders, world leading scientists, and nationally competitive athletes
- Weekly lunch & learn
- Mentorship - A world class mentorship board advises and mentors our team-members to capture the opportunity ahead of us
Company HQ
Heritage District, Sunnyvale, CA
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