Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering

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Senior Manager leading Yelp's Sales Engineering team, developing processes and tools for API client enablement. Collaborating with product and engineering to enhance technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Sales Engineers with product specializations spanning Ads, Leads, CAPI, and Reporting APIs
  • Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex or ambiguous integration scoping
  • Stay hands-on as a working manager
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on feature prioritization and roadmap decisions
  • Own the end-to-end SE engagement model
  • Design and maintain automation systems that scale the team's leverage
  • Maintain the team's canonical SOP library
  • Identify and implement self-serve patterns that reduce manual SE involvement
  • Represent the voice of the external developer in internal product discussions

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, or a similar client-facing technical role with direct API/integration experience
  • 5+ years managing or leading a technical team in a player-coach capacity
  • Deep working knowledge of RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0 / API key authentication, webhooks, and event-driven data architectures
  • Demonstrated ability to operate at the intersection of sales and engineering
  • A track record of building process, documentation, and tooling from scratch in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Strong written communication
  • A proactive, systems-oriented mindset

Benefits:

  • Full medical, vision, and dental
  • 15 days PTO (accrual begins on date of hire and increases with 2+ years of tenure thereafter)
  • 12 paid holidays, plus one floating holiday
  • Up to 14 weeks of parental leave
  • Monthly wellness subsidy
  • Work from home reimbursement
  • Flexible spending account
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Employee stock purchase plan