Honeycomb.io
B2B SaaS
StaffSolutionArchitect
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“Staff Solution Architect at Honeycomb.io. Skills: Observability, Solution architecture, Technical sales. Drive technical strategy. Lead discovery”
Industry & Context.
Troubleshoot complex systems; Unblock deals; Reframe challenges; Find practical paths
Travel ~20%
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years pre-sales experience, 7+ years solution architecture experience, 7+ years customer-facing technical experience, Track record of winning complex deals, Experience selling into developer organizations, Experience selling into platform organizations, Experience selling into SRE organizations, Experience selling into engineering-led organizations, Executive presence, Hands-on fluency cloud environments, Hands-on fluency CSPs, Hands-on fluency containers, Hands-on fluency Kubernetes, Hands-on fluency distributed systems, Hands-on fluency API-driven architectures, Working knowledge observability, Working knowledge distributed tracing, Working knowledge OpenTelemetry, Comfort navigating code, Experience owning complex POCs, Experience defining success criteria, Experience managing risk, Experience driving disciplined outcomes, Collaborative cross-functional approach, Experience influencing Product teams, Experience influencing Engineering teams, Experience influencing GTM teams, Mentorship and growth mindset
Nice to Have
Experience on strategic accounts, Experience on enterprise accounts, Familiarity with MEDDPICC, Familiarity with Command of the Message
What You'll Do.
Drive technical strategy
Lead executive conversations
Connect platform to priorities
Own the technical win
Shape success criteria
Run competitive bake-offs
Build stakeholder conviction
Advise engineering leaders
Turn environments into architectures
Turn environments into narratives
Unblock technical issues
Help customers prove outcomes
Build technical content
Build repeatable architectures
Bring thought leadership
Deliver presentations
Work across Marketing
Work across Field Engineering
Sharpen go-to-market motion
Improve customer engagement
Bring field signals back
Shape product direction
Illustrate path to leadership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Strategic AEs; Sales Leadership; Engineering organizations; Global enterprises; Developers; Decision-makers; Sales; Product; Marketing; Field Engineering; DevRel; Peers
Communication Scope
Executive conversations; Technical documentation; Presentations
Process & Methodology
POCs, Evaluations
Full Job Description
What We’re Building Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023! If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases. Who We Are We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers. How We Work We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote Little more about the team: The Solution Architecture team sits at the intersection of technology, customer advocacy, and revenue, working Honeycomb's most strategic opportunities. We partner with world-class engineering organizations to solve complex observability challenges and change how teams build and operate software. This is a team of hands-on technical leaders who want to shape major customer decisions, influence go-to-market strategy, and redefine what great technical selling looks like. What you’ll do in the role: Drive technical strategy on Honeycomb's largest, most complex deals, partnering with Strategic AEs and Sales Leadership across the region. Lead discovery, solution design, and executive conversations that connect Honeycomb's platform to real engineering and business p
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