Pre-Sales Solutions Lead
Required skills
- pre-sales
- solutions consulting
- solution architecture
- technology consulting
- customer-facing
- enterprise opportunities
- marketing organizations
- solution strategy
- workflow design
- demo
Nice to have
- Adobe
- Salesforce
- Workfront
- AI-powered products
Role summary
Gradial is seeking a Pre-Sales Solutions Lead to drive technical and solution strategy for key enterprise opportunities. This hands-on role involves working closely with Sales to understand complex marketing organizations, identify high-value opportunities, and translate needs into concrete solutions. You will lead discovery, design solutions within customer technology stacks, own demo and POC strategy, and partner with engineering teams. Responsibilities include building reusable assets, developing business cases, navigating technical validation, and establishing pre-sales processes. The ideal candidate has 9+ years of experience in pre-sales, solutions consulting, or solution architecture, with deep familiarity in MarTech and digital transformation. Strong technical fluency, solution-selling instincts, and the ability to communicate with executive and technical audiences are essential. Experience with enterprise marketing stack deployments and AI-powered products is a plus. This role reports to the VP of Customer Activation.
Gradial is building the AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing. Our agents turn ideas into live campaigns by executing across the tools, teams, and workflows enterprises already use—from content authoring and campaign assembly to quality assurance and brand compliance. We give marketers and creatives more time to shape brands, understand customers, and create work that moves people.We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in applied AI: building agent harnesses, sandboxed execution environments, and orchestration that enable agents to plan, act, and verify their work reliably at enterprise scale. We’re growing rapidly, winning Fortune 500 and enterprise customers including AWS, T-Mobile, and Prudential. Our $65 million Series C led by Insight Partners is accelerating that momentum.Join us to help define how people and AI agents work together. We move with urgency, reason from first principles, and take ownership from idea to customer impact. You’ll shape the product, own consequential problems, and build systems that some of the world’s leading brands depend on every day.
The Role
We’re hiring a Pre-Sales Solutions Lead to own the technical and solution strategy behind Gradial’s most important enterprise opportunities. You’ll work closely with Sales to understand complex marketing organizations, identify the highest-value opportunities for Gradial and turn those needs into solutions that make the value of our platform concrete.
This is a highly hands-on role for someone who can move from executive discovery to workflow design, solution architecture and a compelling demo without waiting for a detailed playbook. You’ll lead conversations across Marketing, MarTech, Creative Operations, IT and Engineering, connecting business priorities to the realities of a customer’s technology stack and operating model.
You’ll also help build the pre-sales motion itself. From reusable use cases and demo patterns to qualification frameworks and engagement models with Forward Deployed Engineering, you’ll define how Gradial approaches complex strategic deals at scale. You’ll report to the VP of Customer Activation and partner closely with Sales, Forward Deployed Engineering and Forward Deployed Product Management.
What You’ll Own
What We Need
Nice to Have
The salary range for this position is $180,000 – $200,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.
What we offer
You'll thrive here if you
AI Literacy & Interviewing Tools
As an AI-first company, we prioritize AI literacy as a core competency in our hiring decisions. We’re excited by candidates who thoughtfully apply AI tools in their work, but during interviews we’re focused on you. This is your opportunity to show how you think, communicate, and solve problems. Over-reliance on AI-generated responses during the interview process (especially when it obscures your own voice) will result in disqualification. We want to understand your unique perspective and how you approach challenges, both with and without AI.
Gradial is dedicated to creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all team members can grow. We offer competitive compensation, equity, flexible work hours, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative culture focused on learning and impact.
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