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# Solutions Engineer

- **Company:** Advance Local
- **Location:** Portland, OR, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software as a Service, Information Systems, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Information Technology, Webhooks
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.portlandjobsite.com/job.asp?id=3361202312&tx=ZT2322THT&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business, marketing technology or a related field preferred; or equivalent relevant experience could be considered
 * Minimum 2 years' experience in a pre-sales, solutions engineering, or sales engineering role at a B2B SaaS company.
 * API/webhook fluency is the core of the job, with strong working knowledge of APIs, webhooks, integrations, data flows, and SaaS platform architecture needed
 * Comfortable building things independently. You won't have a team to hand this to
 * Strong communicator who can translate technical capability into a business story for non-technical buyers
 * Enough product/technical judgment to push back when a prospect's ask isn't realistic. We'd rather you say "no, but here's what we can do" than overpromise
 * Bonus: experience in media, sports, music, automotive, or political verticals, or with SMS/messaging platforms specifically

## Description

Subtext is a two-way SMS platform that helps media, sports, music, automotive, and political brands build direct, owned relationships with their audiences, bypassing algorithms and third-party platforms. We're backed by Advance Local, growing fast, and building a real go-to-market engine from the ground up., We're hiring our first dedicated Solutions Engineer to be the technical backbone of the sales process: building demo environments that show prospects and existing customers what Subtext can do, and owning the technical narrative on our most complex capability, the API/webhooks layer that lets customers integrate Subtext into their own stack.

This is an IC role reporting into the VP of Sales. It is not a product management role (Product retains roadmap ownership), but you'll be the most consistent source of field evidence Product gets., * Custom demo environments: build and maintain demo instances tailored to specific prospect and upsell use cases, not generic walkthroughs. You decide what "great" looks like here.

 * Demo tooling: identify, evaluate, and (with approval) procure whatever tools or sandbox infrastructure make demos sharper and faster to stand up.
 * Pre-sales technical ownership: be the go-to person AEs bring in when a deal gets technical, especially anything involving the API/webhook integration layer. You'll often be the one answering "can it actually do X" in real time on a call.
 * Structured feedback to Product: capture recurring patterns from prospect and customer conversations (feature gaps, objections, competitive workarounds, integration asks) and deliver them to Product in a consistent, evidence-based format. This is influence through data, not authority over prioritization. Product owns the roadmap.
 * Sales enablement: after each product-shaping conversation, translate what you learned back to the sales team so reps aren't discovering capability gaps live on a prospect call.


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