• Own the technical thread across live enterprise deals, partnering with AEs and founders to understand each customer’s use case and demonstrate how Athena can solve it.
• Build tailored demos and proofs of value around a customer’s real workflows, requirements and data rather than relying on a generic script.
• Lead technical conversations around architecture, integrations, security and how Athena fits into a customer’s existing environment.
• Assess feasibility in real time, understanding which integrations exist, what might need to be built and how complex a requirement is.
• Multi-thread across technical and business stakeholders, from HR & IT Operations through to CTOs, AI leaders and CFOs.
• Build repeatable demo, technical enablement and proof-of-value systems that make the wider sales team more effective.
• Bring what you learn from prospects back to our Product and Engineering team, to help us improve our technology and better support customers.
• Help shape how Athena is technically positioned as what enterprise customers need from agentic AI evolves.
• Travel for onsite prospect meetings and events across US and Europe.

What we’re looking for

• Multiple years of experience in pre-sales, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture or a similar customer-facing technical role within SaaS.
• The technical depth to go beyond a product demonstration and confidently discuss architecture, integrations and how a solution would work in a customer’s environment.
• Strong customer-facing credibility and executive presence, with the ability to run a room spanning across operators, VP and C-Suite commonly with a technical background.
• A track record of turning ambiguous business requirements into clear and compelling technical solutions and providing solutions and ideas on the spot.
• Strong enterprise integration knowledge across APIs, SSO, MCP, data warehouse.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic systems, whether through prompt engineering, tool calling, evaluation or agent orchestration.
• Strong judgement when assessing technical feasibility and the confidence to set clear expectations with customers in the moment.
• Commercial instinct and an understanding that your technical work ultimately needs to help us win the deal.
• Comfort operating in a technical category where the playbook is still being written.
• Willing to travel across US and Europe as required.

You may not be a great fit if

• You prefer running standard demos rather than tailoring the technical approach to each customer.
• You’d rather talk about technology than get hands-on with demos, proofs of value, integrations and agent configurations.
• You prefer handing difficult technical questions back to Engineering.
• You’re highly technical but aren’t motivated by the commercial outcome. Winning the deal is part of the role.
• You need a mature pre-sales playbook, established demo environment or clearly defined boundaries before you can be effective.
• You’re not comfortable moving quickly across multiple different complex enterprise customers, use cases and technical requirements.

This is an in-person role. Our team comes together in the office Monday through Thursday, while most of the team collaborates in person on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

Package & Benefits

• Market-leading compensation that reflects your value
• 25 days paid time off each year plus public holidays
• Share Options with 5-year exercise window so you don’t feel pressure to exercise if you leave
• Free Thursday lunches at HQ, quarterly team events, and company offsites.
• Top tier private coverage for health, vision and dental care
• A new MacBook and tools you need to do your best work
• Enhanced parental leave with up to 16 weeks for primary and 4 weeks for secondary
• Learning & development budget

Why Join Humaans Today?

HR tech is having its AI moment and we’re positioned to own it. Humaans started as a next-gen HRIS taking on large incumbents in a massive market. We’ve since evolved into something even bigger: an AI platform that sits across workforce data and automates the operational layer of HR entirely; the natural progression of what we’ve been building toward.

The product is highly differentiated. It’s built around a structured workforce data model that makes AI reliable in an HR context, something no one else has gotten right. Customers notice the difference immediately.

We’re backed by Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Moonfire, Frontline Ventures, and operators who’ve built some of the most consequential software companies of the last decade: the founders of Slack, Figma, and Shopify, and Asana’s former CRO and Head of OpenAI International.

We’re a small team with an unapologetically high bar. It shows up in the product, in how we communicate, and in the standards we hold each other to.

Our Commitment to Diversity

At Humaans we’re looking for genuinely good people that are transparent and emphatic. We’re committed to providing equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and ensuring a fair interview process for everyone. You’re welcome to apply no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

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