Senior Sales Engineer (Detroit)

About Glia

Glia is the #1 Banking AI platform, empowering community and regional financial institutions to create efficiencies, accelerate loan growth, drive deposits, and deliver experiences that win against megabanks and fintechs.

Glia's Banking AI Operating System is a central intelligence layer on top of existing tech stacks, activating an AI workforce of specialized agents that draw from banking data, interaction history, and integrated systems of record. These banking-trained agents automate workflows across voice and digital–from front office to back office–resulting in decreased operational costs and the Universal Banker model.

Trusted by 700+ banks and credit unions for its ironclad security and reliability, Glia delivers the industry’s first contractual no-hallucination guarantee. It’s why Glia customers quickly and confidently put Banking AI to work with measurable results from day one. More information about Glia can be found at glia.com.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Sales Engineer who thrives in complex and dynamic environments. This candidate will bring deep technical expertise combined with strategic thinking to our sales team. This role involves engaging with banks, credit unions, and other financial services institutions, guiding them through their digital transformation journeys with Glia's digital and voice AI solutions. The ideal candidate is a seasoned, proactive problem-solver who excels in a collaborative setting and can lead complex deals, projects, and cross-functional teams effectively.

This position serves as the senior technical expert and trusted advisor supporting prospects from initial engagement through to successful final sales. The role offers a dynamic mix of strategic technical sales, proof of concept leadership, and ongoing technical guidance, providing a varied set of daily activities with our prospects across the financial services industry.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and resolve complex technical challenges independently, leveraging managers and teams as strategic partners rather than primary support.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in API data integrations and across the Glia product suite.

• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies to proactively address potential risks and minimize their impact on sales outcomes.

• Delegate tasks appropriately, integrate technical needs into project planning, and choose the most effective project management strategies.

• Navigate and resolve complex client issues, fostering collaboration across departments and managing communication challenges with diverse stakeholders at banks, credit unions, and financial services organizations.

• Present complex information clearly and concisely during executive-level meetings, ensuring all communications are impactful and directly support business objectives.

• Maintain a deep understanding of financial services and customer service industry trends, regularly contributing insights in meetings and strategic discussions.

• Develop and maintain deep, personalized customer relationships, leveraging those to advance business objectives.

• Mentor peers and contribute to the team's collective knowledge by effectively utilizing our entire library of stories and case studies across the Glia product set.

Qualifications:

Must Have:

• 5+ years of experience in a pre-sales engineering, solutions engineering, solutions architecture, or comparable customer-facing technical role.

• Hands-on coding ability (not just "technical aptitude"). Comfortable building and modifying working examples in JavaScript and HTML/CSS, and explaining decisions clearly.

• Proven experience working with REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven integrations (authentication, payloads, retries, error handling, debugging).

• Track record of building real technical artifacts such as serverless functions, lightweight backend services, automation scripts, or integration applets to prove out workflows and solutions in enterprise sales cycles.

• Ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes and guide technical + non-technical stakeholders through tradeoffs (security, time-to-value, maintainability, UX).

• Substantial customer-facing / business-facing experience (pre-sales, professional services, implementations, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or similar). Must be comfortable leading technical conversations with senior prospect stakeholders, including executive buyers.

• Strong communication skills: asks great questions, can whiteboard/teach, a