Pre Sales Engineer - US

Pre Sales Engineer

About Us

This is an exciting opportunity to establish the North American commercial presence for a UK headquartered Climate FinTech start-up.

Climate X is the world’s only fully integrated climate risk platform, helping financial institutions to price, manage and build resilience to climate change impacts on the built environment. Through cutting-edge science, we provide climate financial risk data to global banks and asset managers, defending global economic stability against the impacts of climate change. Our innovative solutions have transformed the approach of businesses and corporations towards climate challenges, enabling them to build and retrofit structures for a sustainable future.

We have recently closed a $18 million Series A funding round led by Google Ventures. With this new backing, we are looking to expand our team.

We believe diversity is a strength - with our founders, team, and investors coming from various backgrounds. We’re not building just a team but a place of innovation where problem solving, and fun coexist to address the most significant challenge our society is facing today.  

The impact you’ll own

As the pre-sales engineer you will be supporting the sales process with your technical expertise and product know-how. Mainly, you will:

• Collaborate with sales team to understand customer requirements and provide technical solutions.
• Conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations to potential customers.
• Support the team with RFPs and POCs
• Directly engage with customers to support and resolve their queries and requests promptly, triaging development requests where appropriate, and fostering effective communication and collaboration with our Commercial, Product, Science, and Technology teams.
• Perform data analysis to inform and package the insights from complete data sets into customer centric presentation materials.
• Inform product support and development efforts, contributing to the overall improvement of our products and services.
• Enhance our customer loyalty by communicating product features and updates to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner across our suite of products.
• Play a pivotal role in ensuring the satisfaction and success of our financial and real estate customers.
• Be responsible for maintaining our library of content and documentation, ensuring information is up-to-date, easy to understand, and easy to use.
• As a founder member of the US team, you will have the opportunity scale the company and have a lot of room for career growth

Essential Skills

• High IT literacy, proficient in Microsoft Office and great data analytics skills, particularly in Python and SQL.
• A willingness to learn about complex data and climate models and communicate these effectively, especially to non-technical audiences. Including concepts such as machine learning, climate change, and hazard modelling (e.g. flood modelling).
• Presenting and tailoring communications to diverse audiences, ranging from executives to technical teams within the Financial Services industry
• We value a proactive 'can-do' attitude and welcome candidates with diverse perspectives and great interpersonal skills for internal and external collaboration.

Desirable Skills

• Ability to exercise excellent time management and meet multiple deadlines.
• A passion for learning about climate change.
• Understanding of, and interest in, the current climate change landscape and future trends.
• Experience working at a B2B SaaS company.
• Experience with HubSpot and JIRA.

Benefits

🌍 Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change 

💰 Pension and 401K plan

🩺  Health Insurance

🛟 Life & Disability Insurance

🦷 Dental Insurance

👓  Vision Insurance

🏥 Mental Health Support

💡 Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career ($1,000 per year) 

📈 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews 

🏖 PTO and Sick Leave

🥳 Annual Christmas party and Summer event in the UK

Equal Opportunities 

Climate X are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. 

This will be an office first role, based in New York. We cannot work sponsor visas at the moment.