Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Overview

• Deliver clear, compelling, and technically robust product demos both remote and on-site that showcase Easol’s architecture and full platform value.
• Highlight Easol’s ecosystem including the website builder, checkout, Paystack payments, and custom workflows to show how creators can elevate their offerings.
• Own end-to-end technical delivery across deployments from prototype to production ensuring solutions drive measurable value.
• Build full-stack systems that accelerate learning, unlock commercial impact, and integrate seamlessly with creator operations.
• Partner with Sales on deep discovery to understand requirements and tailor demos, solution narratives, and ROI stories.
• Embed with creator teams to understand operational needs, guide adoption, and ensure solutions meet growth objectives.
• Dive into platform features and integrations to create customised demos, workflows, and proofs-of-concept.
• Contribute hands-on code when needed to maintain clarity, momentum, and quality.
• Identify and articulate high-value opportunities such as revenue optimisation, efficiency gains, and conversion uplift.
• Scope work, plan delivery, and remove blockers while balancing speed, scope, and quality.
• Keep cross-functional teams aligned through clear communication, progress updates, and strong follow-through.
• Stay current on industry trends, competitive technologies, and creator vertical needs to keep pre-sales and delivery strategies sharp.
• Collaborate with Customer Success for smooth handover, documentation, configuration, and onboarding.
• Work with Marketing to refine messaging, demo assets, and value propositions for target creator verticals.
• Codify effective patterns into tools, playbooks, and reusable technical assets.
• Provide structured field feedback to Product and Research to improve platform and model performance.
• Use AI to streamline demo preparation, automate pre-sales tasks, and accelerate customised solution delivery.
• Apply AI insights to analyse customer data, identify opportunities, and improve forecasting and solution design.
• Champion adoption of emerging AI tools to boost productivity and enhance demo environments.

Requirements

• Proven leadership in solutions consulting or pre-sales, with a strong track record guiding customers through complex technical and operational evaluations. Demonstrated ability to translate intricate solution architectures into clear, outcome-focused value propositions for senior stakeholders
• Deep technical acumen with the ability to rapidly understand, dissect, and articulate sophisticated SaaS solutions, acting as a trusted advisor throughout the entire pre-sales cycle
• Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities, both written and verbal, capable of engaging diverse audiences ranging from technical practitioners to C-level executives. Able to distill complexity into clarity without oversimplifying critical details
• Expert-level discovery skills, including the ability to ask incisive, strategic questions that uncover customer challenges, map solution fit, and influence decision-making across multiple personas
• Extensive experience working with configurable, customised, or enterprise-grade B2B SaaS platforms, ideally within multi-stakeholder or multi-workflow environments. Comfortable shaping tailored solutions and building confidence in their long-term value
• Collaborative leadership mentality, operating as a cross-functional partner to sales, product, engineering, and customer success. Demonstrates the ability to coach others, elevate team performance, and contribute to scalable best practices for the wider go-to-market organisation
• Continuous learner with strong commercial awareness, staying ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving customer expectations. Able to integrate new knowledge into solution strategy, thought leadership, and team enablement

Benefits

• 🧠 You'll have real visibility of what's happening in the business. We have weekly company meetings, where we all get together to discuss our wins, learning opportunities, our goals and direction.
• 🗣 There is an open forum for you to have your say in what we do and how we do it. We empower our team to share their ideas
• no egos here!
• 🌏 You'll have access to our incredible perks, such as a 'work from anywhere', where you can travel to a destination of choice and work remotely for up to 3 weeks a year, utilise our 'Thrive' allowance to pay for massages, gym classes, gigs or anything that helps you thrive!
• 🏥 We offer full Healthcare and a 401k plan.
• 💰 In addition to that, we offer a monthly contribution towards your mobile phone contract, an annual personal development budget and support to choose your own equipment and a lot more!
• ✈ You’ll have 33 days of holidays, inclusive of public holidays
• 🌱 Employees of all backgrounds and physical abilities will be supported by us in every way possible to thrive