Lead Solutions Engineer (f/m/d)

Taktile empowers financial institutions to transform into truly AI-native organizations. As a Lead Solutions Engineer focused on enterprise pre-sales, you are the technical bridge between our enterprise prospects and our AI-powered decisioning platform. You will partner with the Sales Team to architect AI-driven solutions for the world's most innovative financial institutions. Your mission is to secure the technical win by demonstrating how Taktile leverages Generative AI and advanced ML to solve complex credit, risk, and fraud challenges.

Responsibilities

Scale the impact of the Solutions function by creating reusable collateral, establishing solution patterns, and mentoring others; Translate customer strategic priorities and problem statements into high impact Agentic AI use cases; Lead the design and execution of proof-of-value projects; Build technical prototypes and demos leveraging the Taktile platform; Collaborate with partners and customers to design and build solutions; Communicate the value opportunity of full implementation to senior stakeholders up to C-level executives; Work with product management to share competitive intelligence and prospect insights; Lead discovery for new use cases and provide feedback to product and go-to-market teams

Requirements

Hands-on experience with Python, APIs, and modern AI models in customer-facing environments; 3+ years of hands-on experience writing production Python code; Ability to navigate complex Enterprise organizations with stakeholders across different levels of seniority; Customer-centric and curious; Ability to plan and manage the technical scope of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and technical evaluations; Ability to manage multiple high-stakes prospects simultaneously while partnering with Sales; Humble with a growth mindset; Collaborative with peers in Marketing, Sales, Product, Engineering and Customer Success; Proven track record of supporting high-contract-value enterprise deals; Open to a hybrid work model and able to work from Berlin office at least three days per week

Nice to have

Experience operating in a technical leadership role; At least 5-7 years of experience working within Enterprise Solution/Sales Engineering in B2B SaaS or in a senior technical consulting role; Deep expertise with enterprise-level infrastructure and architecture including extensive understanding of APIs; Experience building, tuning, or deploying ML models in production settings; Experience with AI use cases in financial services; Comfortable explaining how a model works to both technical stakeholders and domain experts; Domain expertise in the financial services industry

Benefits

Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow; Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company; Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members; Learn from experienced mentors and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors; Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package; Get access to a self-development budget; Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up