Sales Engineer - NY

Vapi

$90K — $130K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role like pre-sales engineering or solutions architecture.
  • Ability to write code for integration, understand API responses, and troubleshoot without engineering assistance.
  • Experience with voice, telephony, or contact center systems such as SIP, Twilio, or Genesys.
  • Strong communication skills to engage both technical and executive audiences at appropriate levels of detail.
  • Passionate about technical sales processes including discovery, POCs, and objection handling.

Responsibilities

  • Learn Vapi's products, customer use cases, and sales processes within the first 30 days.
  • Conduct technical discovery and demos for enterprise deals by the end of 60 days.
  • Collaborate with AEs on account strategy and design customer-specific demos.
  • Lead technical aspects of enterprise deals from initial contact to go-live within 90 days.
  • Create reusable artifacts and document integration patterns for the sales team.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity ownership.
  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Quarterly team off-sites to foster relationships and collaboration.
  • Flexible time off policy allowing employees to take the time they need.
  • Additional perks include catered meals, transportation support, a gym, and a substantial annual learning and development budget.
Full Job Description
Why We're Hiring This Role:
  • Vapi is moving deeper into enterprise customers, where buyers are technical and evaluations depend on clear architecture, credible demos, and working POCs.
  • Customers want to understand how Vapi fits into real production workflows like IVR replacement, outbound dialing, agent-assisted support, appointment scheduling etc.
  • This is one of our first Solutions Architect hires, with real scope to shape how we sell, demo, document, and bring enterprise customers live.

What You'll Do:
  • 30 Day: Learn Vapi's product, customer use cases, sales motion, and common technical objections. Shadow enterprise calls, understand our voice-agent architecture, and start building fluency across telephony, LLM orchestration, integrations, and contact center workflows.
  • 60 Day: Own technical discovery and demos for active enterprise deals. Partner closely with AEs on account strategy, build customer-specific demos, help design POCs, and answer technical questions clearly and honestly.
  • 90 Day: Lead the technical side of enterprise deals from first call through close and go-live. Create reusable artifacts for the team, document integratio n patterns and common objections, and feed repeated product gaps back to engineering and product.


Who You Are:
  • You have 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role, such as pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, customer engineering, or similar.
  • You can write code well enough to build a working integration, read an API response, and debug issues without immediately pulling in an engineer.
  • You have experience with voice, telephony, or contact center infrastructure, such as SIP, Twilio, Genesys, Five9, or similar systems.
  • You're comfortable speaking with both engineers and executives, and you adjust the level of detail without dumbing things down.
  • You're energized by technical sales: discovery, architecture, POCs, objection handling, and helping customers get live.

How We Work:
  • Build something worthy of love - Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
  • Commit and follow through - We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
  • Why not today? - We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.
  • Seek raw input - We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
  • It's our problem - We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
  • Be direct and kind - We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.


What We Offer:
  • Real stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
  • Flexible time off: take what you need
  • More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget

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