Sales Engineer, Enterprise

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2 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
210K-265K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Big Data Analytics
Hex empowers thousands of people to ask & answer new questions of data, and seamlessly share the results with everyone.
The Role
The Enterprise Sales Engineer advises data teams and executives, owns technical sales cycles, leads discovery, demos, proofs of concept, deployments, and technical reviews. They partner with Account Executives on deal strategy, communicate prospect feedback to Product and Engineering, create evaluation content, and support customer relationships through onsite visits and events. The role requires enterprise pre-sales experience, technical fluency in data science workflows, and strong customer communication skills.
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About Hex

Hex is growing our team of builders on a mission to make everyone a data person. Our platform solves key pain points with today’s data and analytics tooling, and empowers anyone to explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context. Thousands of customers like Ramp, Figma, Stubhub, Anthropic, and Gamma love Hex for our beautiful UI, agentic superpowers, and boundless flexibility.

Hex has raised over $100M from leading investors like Sequoia, a16z, Snowflake and Amplify. With office hubs in San Francisco and New York, as well as remote team members throughout the US and UK, we’re a high-agency team that ships fast and has fun doing it. Check out our Intro to Hex video and employee handbook to learn more about what it’s like to work at Hex.

Hex's user base is continuing to grow rapidly. We are hiring a Sales Engineer to partner with potential customers to support their Hex evaluations.

About the role

Hex is redefining how teams work with data - combining notebooks, apps, BI, and AI-native workflows into a single collaborative analytics platform. Enterprises like StubHub, Rivian and Reddit, rely on Hex as a core part of how their data teams operate.

We’re at an exciting stage of growth. Hex is scaling rapidly, and ready to build on our foundation of Enterprise logos. This is a high-impact moment to join: our go-to-market motion is accelerating, our AI capabilities are changing the foundation of data work, and Sales Engineers play a central role in shaping how we win.

As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will leverage your product, ecosystem, and technical expertise to shape how our potential customers evaluate and adopt Hex. You will partner with the Sales team to help prospects understand the challenges in their current state, connect Hex’s value to those challenges, own the technical evaluation, and set them up for long-term success as a customer. This is a consultative, highly technical position where you’ll influence deal strategy, inform product direction, and act as the voice of the customer.

If you want to learn more about the team, what we do, and how we work, please check out our team page!

What you will do
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to data teams & C-level executives (think: Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, CIOs, AI deployment leads) and build strong relationships to help them get the most out of Hex during their evaluations

  • Own the technical sales cycle and work with Hex end users throughout the Sales cycle: discovery, product demos, proofs of concept & initial deployment

  • Partner closely with Account Executives to develop opportunity-level strategy, execute evaluations, and share feedback to improve your partnership

  • Inform the product roadmap by synthesizing product feedback from prospects to share with internal Engineering & Product teams

  • Project manage the architecture, security, and technical reviews that prospects require

  • Develop content to support users who are a part of evaluations ie. demo projects, documentation, videos, etc.

  • As needed, travel to customer on-sites and marketing events to deliver demos and build strong customer relationships

Who you might be

You might be a fit for this role if you have:

  • 5+ years experience in a technical Pre-Sales role

  • Experience working with Enterprise customers with over 2500 employees

  • Experience with POC/Technical Sales Motions/Deployment Engineering to land new logos

  • Familiarity with data science tooling and workflows, including Python, SQL, and BI tools (Bonus points if you have spent lots of time in notebooks, SQL IDEs, or semantic modeling tools)

  • A strong track record of talking to customers - from IC users to senior stakeholders - and solving their problems

  • You're an excellent communicator who builds empathy, shares feedback, and grows successful relationships with internal and external stakeholders

  • A generalist technical skillset: you don't need a CS degree, but should have a passion and interest for technology and be a creative problem solver

  • Experience or interest in working in an early-stage startup environment

The OTE (base + variable) range for this role is: $210,000 - $265,000

In addition to our unique culture, Hex proudly offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched salary & equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible paid time off.

The salary range shown may be a reflection of additional factors such as geographical location and skill ranges/levels we’re open to. Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process, taking into account factors like leaving room for growth, internal fairness & parity, your demonstrated skills, and the depth of your experience. Our Recruiting team will be able to provide more details during the interview process.

By submitting an application the candidate consents to the use of their personal information in accordance with the Hex Privacy policy: https://learn.hex.tech/docs/trust/privacy-policy.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience in a technical pre-sales role
  • Experience working with enterprise customers with more than 2,500 employees
  • Experience with proof-of-concept, technical sales, or deployment engineering motions for landing new logos
  • Familiarity with data science tooling and workflows, including Python, SQL, and BI tools
  • Strong track record of communicating with customers ranging from individual contributors to senior stakeholders and solving their problems
  • Excellent communication, empathy, feedback-sharing, and relationship-building skills
  • Generalist technical skillset and interest in technology and creative problem-solving
  • Experience or interest in working in an early-stage startup environment
  • Extensive experience with notebooks, SQL IDEs, or semantic modeling tools

Hex Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength — Official materials and benefits profiles consistently reference comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with mental-health support and FSAs also noted. Some listings additionally cite very high employer premium contributions on the base plan.
  • Parental & Family Support — Benefits information highlights fully paid parental leave (e.g., 12 weeks, or 16 for the gestational parent) with flexible return-to-work support. Family-planning benefits such as Carrot with a quoted lifetime allowance are also described.
  • Retirement Support — Multiple profiles note a 401(k) with a company match (commonly cited up to 4%). This retirement support is presented as part of a broader market-benchmarked total-rewards package.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
160 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility. We are a tight-knit crew of engineers, designers, and data aficionados. Our roadmap is full of big ideas and little details, and we would love your help bringing them to life. Hex has raised over $100m from great VCs and angels, giving us many years of runway and the ability to pay competitive salaries, offer great benefits, and provide meaningful equity.

Why Work With Us

We’re a team of builders. We spend our days designing and developing beautiful products, growing and supporting our user base, and helping each other succeed and learn. To do that, we've developed a culture focused on quality, craft, and speed -- with very few meetings, bias toward action, and taking care of each other through feedback and support.

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Hex Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We have a truly hybrid workforce, with many employees working fully remotely, and others coming into one of our two offices (SF or NYC) 2-3 days per week.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQSan Francisco, CA
New York, NY
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