Who we're looking for
We're looking for a Sales Engineer to serve as a technical partner to our customers and internal teams.
You'll help bring Ethena's product to life for customers and prospects, connecting the technology to the strategic outcomes they want to drive, and you'll be a product and enablement resource for our commercial team.
This is an early role on a growing Sales Engineering team, reporting to the Sales Engineering manager, with clear room to take on more as you ramp.
Why Ethena?
Because it's a need-to-have vs. a nice-to-have. We save companies thousands of hours a year with innovative ways to deliver compliance training, deliver 93% learner-loved content, and meet compliance needs without creating administrative overhead. In a world where every tool is expected to do more with less, Ethena delivers for admins, employees, and leadership teams alike.
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What you'll do
Partner with AEs and CSMs during the sales cycle to understand customer needs, demo Ethena's platform, and help build proposals that address customer pain points.
Help maintain and refine the Ethena demo environment so it reflects our latest AI features, use cases, and real-world client setups.
Build custom walkthroughs, prototypes, and tailored demos for deals, such as custom content builds, course-editing demonstrations, and integrations.
Translate product, content, and AI feature specs into customer-ready language, both in live calls and in sales assets.
Build a deep understanding of our solutions and field technical and implementation questions on topics such as data security, HRIS integrations, and customization, escalating the most complex to your manager.
Draft responses for RFPs, pilots, and security reviews
Collect real-time feedback from prospects and relay it back to Product and Engineering.
Create and maintain sales-ready assets such as talk tracks, decks, video tutorials and Looms, and objection handling.
Enable AEs and CSMs on new product updates, features and functionality.
What makes a great candidate
Some experience in a Sales Engineering, Sales, Implementation, or technical customer-facing role at a SaaS company
Ability to tell a clear story with a technical product, especially on calls with HR, IT, Security, and Legal stakeholders.
Exposure to the discovery and technical demo stages of a sales cycle.
An ownership mindset: you'll grow into being a go-to resource on demos, pre-sales technical support, and product fluency.
Credibility with sales reps and the comfort to work closely with leadership.
Bias toward clarity, fast execution, and iteration over polish.
Familiarity with, or the ability to quickly learn, AI-powered tools, APIs, and enterprise integrations (LMS, HRIS, SSO, etc.).
A self-starter who takes ownership with a "roll up your sleeves" mentality, is comfortable with ambiguity, and proactively surfaces problems and solutions. You'll have a manager invested in your growth and ready to coach, and we're looking for someone eager to learn and grow into the role.
We're an early-stage startup, so we're not just looking for someone to run a playbook. We want you to help build it.
Passion for what we're building here at Ethena and strong alignment with our core values.
What's going to be the hardest part
Skills Required
- Some experience in a Sales Engineering, Sales, Implementation, or technical customer-facing role at a SaaS company
- Ability to present technical product stories to HR, IT, Security, and Legal stakeholders
- Exposure to discovery and technical demo stages of the sales cycle
- Familiarity with, or ability to quickly learn, AI-powered tools, APIs, and enterprise integrations (LMS, HRIS, SSO)
- Experience building custom walkthroughs, prototypes, tailored demos, and maintaining demo environments
- Ability to draft responses for RFPs, pilots, and security reviews
- Create and maintain sales-ready assets and enable AEs/CSMs on new product updates
- Based in the United States and authorized to work in the U.S. (no employer visa sponsorship offered)
- Comfortable working remotely and collaborating across North American time zones
- Self-starter with ownership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration
Ethena Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ethena and has not been reviewed or approved by Ethena.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered transparent, with publicly shared salary formulas, posted ranges on job descriptions, and a stated compensation philosophy. Practices like a no‑negotiation approach and location‑agnostic engineering pay aim to reduce gaps and increase clarity.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Progression appears structured through a formula‑based approach and twice‑yearly review cycles that provide predictable increases. Market adjustments and stronger performance can yield larger raises within this framework.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off breadth includes unlimited PTO, all U.S. federal holidays, and a company‑wide week‑long year‑end break. This structure signals meaningful rest time for a remote‑first environment.
Ethena Insights
What We Do
Compliance training that customizes itself to you. Ethena combines top-rated training content with intelligent AI that builds and adapts training to reflect your company’s unique brand, roles, policies, and risks. From auto-assigning courses based on HRIS data to transforming your policies into interactive training in minutes, Ethena helps People, Legal, and Compliance teams do more with less. Companies like Genesco, Zendesk, Pinterest, and Synaptics use Ethena to launch training in days instead of months and cut learner seat time by up to 60% with adaptive learning paths. Beyond training, Ethena unifies core compliance tools including Hotline & Case Management, Policy Bot, and Phishing Simulator in one platform. This simplifies your compliance tech stack, connects data sources, and continuously strengthens your training by identifying knowledge gaps. With built-in audit trails, compliance controls, and a 93% approval rating across more than 1 million learners, Ethena delivers programs that are responsive and effective.
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