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Taktile empowers financial institutions to transform into truly AI-native organizations. We’re growing rapidly with enterprise customers across banks and insurance companies, and we’re looking for a Senior Solutions Engineer in our NYC headquarters.
As a Senior Solutions Engineer focused on enterprise pre-sales, you are the technical bridge between our enterprise prospects and our AI-powered decisioning platform. You will partner with the Sales Team to architect AI-driven solutions for the world's most innovative financial institutions. Your mission is to secure the technical win by demonstrating how Taktile leverages Generative AI and advanced ML to solve complex credit, risk, and fraud challenges. You are a trusted advisor to our customers and help them achieve their strategic goals and realize value by using Taktile in their decisioning tech stack.
If you are passionate about cutting-edge technology, stay up to date on the latest AI developments, and have a few years of hands-on experience with Python, APIs, and modern AI models in customer-facing environments - all while thriving in a an awesome team that empowers you to grow, then we think you'll love this job!
About You
You excel at navigating complex Enterprise organizations with stakeholders across different levels of seniority and including both technical stakeholders in an organization (e.g. Principal Engineers, Data Scientists) as well as business stakeholders (e.g. Risk Managers, Credit Analysts).
You have 3+ years of hands-on experience writing production Python code
You are curious and customer-centric. You enjoy learning about our customers’ and prospects’ businesses and helping them solve challenges.
You are able to plan and manage the technical scope of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and technical evaluations. You excel at managing multiple high-stakes prospects simultaneously while partnering with Sales to drive deals to close
You are humble and have a growth mindset, with a willingness to learn new skills and methodologies and bring best practices into our business.
You are collaborative and work well with your peers in Marketing, Sales, Product, Engineering and the Customer Success team.
You have a proven track record of supporting high-contract-value enterprise deals. You understand that winning an enterprise deal requires more than just good code—it requires strategic positioning, deep discovery, and the ability to handle complex technical objections.
You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our NYC office at least three days per week.
What You'll Do
You discover and translate customer's strategic priorities and problem statements into high impact Agentic AI use cases leveraging Taktile during the sales process and throughout the Enterprise sales cycle, focusing on uncovering high-value AI use cases that justify significant investment and strategic partnership.
You lead the design and execution of proof-of-value projects that combine customer data, ML/AI models, and Taktile’s platform to demonstrate strategic ROI. You build technical prototypes and demos leveraging the Taktile platform that simulate production-grade integrations and workflows.
You collaborate with partners and customers to design and build solutions in Taktile's Agentic Decisioning Platform.
You lead proof-of-value projects and can communicate the value opportunity of a full implementation and the corresponding strategic roadmap to senior stakeholders up to C-level executives.
You work with product management to share competitive intelligence and prospect insights gathered during the sales process, helping shape Taktile's AI product roadmap and positioning strategy.
You create re-usable collateral, best practices & tools to help scale your knowledge and expertise across the solution engineering function.
You lead the discovery for new use cases and implement them on the platform to assess product-solution fit. You provide feedback to our product team and share results of your discovery with go to market functions.
Ideal, But Not Required
Live for Customer Value: You have at least 3-5 years of experience working within Enterprise Solution/ Sales Engineering in B2B SaaS, or in a senior technical consulting role
Technical expertise: You have a general understanding of REST APIs (design, integration, authentication)
You have experience building, tuning, or deploying ML models (e.g., scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, TensorFlow) in production settings
Experience with AI use cases in financial services (e.g. fraud detection, credit scoring, underwriting) is a strong plus.
You are comfortable explaining how a model works to both a technical stakeholder such as a CTO and domain experts such as Credit Risk Managers
You have acquired domain expertise in the financial services industry (banking, insurance, capital markets, payments, etc.).
Our Offer
Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here
Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company
Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo
Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe.
Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package
Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.
Our Stance
We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply
We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms. We won't inquire about how you identify or if you've experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears
About Us
Taktile enables financial institutions to transform into AI-native organizations that are increasingly powered by autonomous agents. With our modular Agentic Decision Platform, customers combine AI agents, rules, relevant context, and human oversight to safely automate and optimize their decisions—approving more customers, reimbursing claims instantly, stopping fraud before it spreads, and financing every business worth funding. Founded in 2020, Taktile powers millions of decisions daily for institutions including Mercury, Monzo, Faire, and Pleo. With offices in New York, Berlin, London, São Paulo, and Iași, the company has raised $184M from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Balderton Capital, and Y Combinator. Learn more at taktile.com.
About Your Employment. Taktile operates through regional entities worldwide. Depending on the location of this role, your employment or engagement will be with Taktile LLC (US), Taktile GmbH (Germany), Taktile Ltd (UK), or Taktile SRL (Romania). The applicable entity will be confirmed during the offer process.
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