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About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure
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JOB TITLE: Sales Engineer - Public Sector
As the first dedicated Sales Engineer for Regulated Industries, you will join the Sales Engineering team to build this function from the ground up. You will serve as the lead technical advisor for the Public Sector, Education, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Utilities markets. Your daily responsibilities include leading discovery, conducting demos, designing architectures, and managing RFIs and RFPs. You will run hands-on API pilots and POCs, defining success criteria and guiding integration tradeoffs for payments, identity, fraud, onboarding, and income verification workflows. You must possess expertise in web and mobile architecture, technical selling, and enterprise consulting. You will translate technical capabilities into business value while navigating complex privacy, security, and compliance requirements within highly regulated environments to solve specific financial integration problems.
Serve as the lead technical advisor from initial discovery through solution design and post-sale handoff.
Lead discovery, product demonstrations, architecture design, and RFI/RFP responses for regulated industry workflows.
Run hands-on API pilots and Proof of Concepts while defining success criteria and integration tradeoffs.
Connect technical capabilities to specific business values for customers in public sector, healthcare, and utilities.
Surface product, privacy, security, and compliance requirements early to coordinate specialist reviews.
Build reusable solution guides, reference architectures, and enablement materials to support partner integrations.
Shape vertical strategy and provide product feedback to Sales, Product, Partnerships, and Marketing teams.
Partner with the Implementation team to ensure successful customer adoption and shared best practices.
What we're looking for
7+ years of customer-facing experience in technical selling, solutions engineering, or enterprise consulting.
3+ years supporting one or more regulated industries, including Public Sector, Healthcare, Education, Utilities, or similarly regulated environments.
Experience leading complex technical evaluations and partnering strategically with AEs across multistakeholder pursuits.
Hands-on API and web/mobile architecture knowledge; ability to build demos, solution diagrams, and integration guidance.
Strong discovery, communication, and customer empathy, connecting technical choices to business outcomes.
Ability to build reusable technical assets and support partner-led integrations and adoption.
Willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time.
Experience in fintech/payments, identity, fraud, or income-verification; familiarity with public-sector procurement, systems integrators, or healthcare platforms (preferred).