Senior Director, Strategic Solutions
Senior Director, Strategic Solutions
Mission
Serve as the company's foremost strategic solutions expert
Tour of Duty
Scale strategic solutions across markets
About This Job Family
People in this job family bridge the gap between sales and technical delivery. They demo products, architect solutions, and prove that the product can solve the customer's specific problem. They're technical enough to go deep and commercial enough to close.
What You'll Do
Strategic Solutions Engineers focus on the largest, most complex customer engagements. They work on deals and implementations that span multiple products, require custom architectures, and involve C-level stakeholders. Success means winning and delivering transformational projects that become flagship references.
- • Serve as the company's foremost expert in strategic solutions methodology
- • Define the framework for winning transformational customer engagements
- • Establish thought leadership in strategic solution architecture
- • Architect innovative approaches for the most complex opportunities
- • Drive cross-functional alignment on strategic engagement initiatives
- • Shape strategic solutions culture through expertise and best practices
Every responsibility is an accomplishment waiting to happen. The question is: will you own the outcome, or just do the task?
Manage a Team?
Great managers are practitioners first. The IC responsibilities above are your foundation—the craft you model for your team. Your management responsibilities are additive:
- • Hire SEs who can go deep technically AND tell a compelling story
- • Coach technical storytelling—demos win deals, not feature lists
- • Run 1:1s that build both product mastery and customer empathy
- • Give feedback on deal involvement—what worked, what to try next
- • Remove blockers—fight for product access, demo environments, and sales alignment
Your team's accomplishments are your accomplishments. Help them craft S.M.A.R.T wins—specific, measurable, and ready to stand on their own.
AI as an Accelerator
AI isn't a skill we call out. It's invisible in the accomplishment but easily visible in the velocity and scale of your outcomes. Here's how people in this role are accelerating their work with AI:
- → Market analysis
- → Building scale strategies
- → Creating enablement frameworks
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The Competencies That Matter
Skills fill your toolbox. Competencies are how you wield them. Three matter most at this level:
1. STRATEGY (4) Strong Strategy skills required at this level.
2. SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING (2) Strong Solutions Engineering skills required at this level.
3. PRODUCT MANAGEMENT (1) Strong Product Management skills required at this level.
The radar shows the full picture. These three are where you need to be undeniable.
Your Journey From Here
Going up? Your next Tour of Duty:
→ VP, Strategic Solutions - Strategic (L8) "Transform strategic engagement practices"
The L7 → L8 gap is about ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT: • From functional leadership → company leadership • From technical strategy → business strategy • From building teams → building organizations
These are your stretch accomplishments. Start doing L8 work now. When you can prove it with accomplishments, you're ready.
Going sideways? That's valid too.
Up isn't the only direction. It's your career. You own it.
Competency Requirements
Competency Shape
- Strategy
- Proficiency: 4
- Solutions Engineering
- Proficiency: 2
- Product Management
- Proficiency: 1
- Software Engineering
- Proficiency: 1
- Sales
- Proficiency: 1
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Effective Date
July 2025
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