Director, Solutions Engineering (HR Tech)

Location: Chicago, with work from the local hirify.global office an average of 2 days per week.

Base salary: $214,000–$260,000 USD annually, plus equity, benefits, and potentially sales commission.

Company

hirify.global is an employee experience SaaS platform used by more than 6,000 companies and 25 million employees to improve engagement, performance management, and team development.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, develop, and hire Solutions Engineers while establishing career paths, feedback practices, and performance standards.
• Set the Solutions Engineering vision, operating rhythm, coverage model, priorities, forecasting input, and performance measures.
• Join complex enterprise customer conversations, guide technical discovery and validation, and improve demos and value-led storytelling for People, IT, and executive stakeholders.
• Align pre-sales and post-sales through clean handoffs, shared account context, shorter time to value, and stronger retention.
• Build scalable frameworks, playbooks, onboarding plans, and enablement assets, using Salesforce, Gong, and data to measure impact.
• Partner with Sales, Customer Experience, Product, People Science, RevOps, and GTM Enablement; turn customer feedback into product and roadmap input and establish AI-enabled team practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in solutions engineering, pre-sales, or technical consulting in B2B SaaS, including 4+ years leading Solutions Engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience building, scaling, and developing Solutions Engineering teams and leaders.
• Experience leading discovery, technical validation, and demos through complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles, including security, integration, and RFP discussions.
• Experience creating scalable frameworks, playbooks, and enablement used by other teams.
• Fluency with Salesforce, Gong, or equivalent tools, with the discipline to use data for forecasting, prioritization, and measurement.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools and building AI-enabled habits within a team.
• Examples of cross-functional work that improved win rate, time to value, or retention through influence rather than authority.
• Executive presence and the ability to connect product capabilities to meaningful outcomes for senior HR and business leaders.
• People-first leadership, clear feedback, psychological safety, strong collaboration, technical credibility, commercial judgment, and customer curiosity.

Nice to have

• Experience in HR tech, HCM, or adjacent SaaS.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with regular office connection, plus a MacBook and home workspace budget.
• Equity through the Employee Share Option Program.
• Learning programs, coaching, quarterly refresh days, an extended end-of-year break, and a monthly wellbeing and lifestyle allowance.
• Inclusive parental leave from day one and five annual social impact days.
• Medical insurance for employees and families, available in the US and UK.
• Commitment to pay equity, inclusion, employee wellbeing, and a people-first workplace.