Solutions Architect

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

*This role is remote based in PST

With so many organizations using Postman, we are looking for exceptional Solutions Architects to join our team and help us to efficiently support and grow our enterprise business. You will partner with our Customer Success team to nurture customer relationships, guide Postman users on how to most effectively leverage our platform to build their APIs and promote an API-first development culture. Ideally, we are looking for someone who lives and breathes APIs, is extremely comfortable with JavaScript (including live coding in front of customers), has experience in managing large Fortune 100 enterprise customers, and is an expert Postman user already!

In addition to working with a product that customers already know and love, you will be well-supported in this role by our Customer Success, Enablement, Developer Relations, and Engineering teams.

• Act as trusted advisors to consult, teach, and guide customers towards increased API lifecycle maturity
• Help to drive value and adoption of Postman by assisting customers to understand how Postman can solve their business and API-related needs
• Build and nurture strong customer relationships with assigned accounts
• Always be curious and constantly conduct discovery to understand customer use cases and pain points in order to then best position the Postman API platform in response
• Be strong customer advocates and act like an extension of the customer's team
• Partner closely with Customer Success Managers to devise success plans for assigned accounts
• Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success to identify outreach targets to drive expansion opportunities
• Guide customers along their API journey via education, technical consultation, and general enablement to help them achieve their development and business goals
• Establish liaisons with the Product team to stay abreast of product developments and roadmap
• Listen for and qualify customer feedback and share with the Product teams internally so that Postman can continue to best support our customers
• Aid in producing enablement resources that lead customers towards realizing the full value of the Postman API platform
• Build solutions for customer problems/needs that improve their user experience to show the “art of the possible”

• Strong technical background from a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, a related field, or relevant work experience
• 8-12 years of experience as a solutions architect, sales/solutions engineer or software development engineer
• Comfortable engaging and working with all levels of technologists from individual developers, development teams, QA teams, architects, product managers, and engineering and product management leaders
• Experience with engaging senior management and executive audiences to convey Postman's value proposition
• Capable of forging deep, long-lasting relationships with customers
• Strong understanding of APIs, and experience with producing and consuming with APIs across different domains
• Strong understanding of modern development methodologies and DevOps with an appreciation of the software development life cycle
• Comfortable with the enterprise SaaS sales process and customer relationship management
• Excellent listener that seeks to understand what a customer is trying to achieve rather than pre-supposing solutions
• Familiar with typical developer tooling: IDEs, Git, CI/CD, monitoring services, microservices, containers, cloud computing services, etc.
• Fast learner, excited and willing to learn new technology on an ongoing basis
• Great communication skills (presentation, verbal and written)
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment and loves teamwork and collaboration Our Values

  At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

  What Else?

  This is a hybrid role based remotely on the West Coast and the reasonably estimated compensation for this role ranges from $175,000-$215,000 OTE, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to our pay-on-performance philosophy, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Salaries will vary outside of the listed metropolitan areas & the U.S.

  Equal Opportunity

  Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.

  Postman will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records where directed under applicable law, such as pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.